Influence of blood coagulability after spinal surgeries

Objective: To verify whether spinal surgery causes relevant changes in the blood clotting process and define which factors have the greatest influence on changes found.Method: This is a not randomized, cross-sectional study, Forty seven patients were evaluated between August 2011 and February 2013, whose clinical, surgical, laboratory and image daata were collected. The data obtained were crossed with the epidemiological data of each patient in a moment prior to and another after surgery searching which variables have been directly influenced.Result: Our analysis showed that the most important changes occurred in patients with BMI classified, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) as out of healthy range. Other smaller correlations were also found. Another important consideration was the tendency to observe hypercoagulability in smoker patients, a fact that is not influenced by spinal procedures.Conclusion: We concluded that spinal surgeries cause few relevant changes in the blood clotting process and that among the factors studied, BMI (when out of the healthy range, according to the WHO classification) showed closer relationship with changes in laboratory coagulation tests. Level of Evidence III, Cross-Sectional Study.

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Main Authors:	Matsumoto,Marcelo Hide, Rodrigues,Luiz Claudio Lacerda, Batalini,Luiz Gustavo da silva, Fonteles,Thales Arcanjo, Bortoletto,Adalberto
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	ATHA EDITORA 2014
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-78522014000500235
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