The Guidelines Project, an initiative of the Brazilian Medical Association, aims to combine information from the medical field in order to standardize procedures to assist the reasoning and ...

Degenerative spondylolisthesis is believed to result from chronic intersegmental instability. [8] Degenerative changes of both the facet joints and the intervertebral disk cause the slip ...

While spondylosis is a general term for degenerative changes in the spine, spondylolisthesis specifically refers to the displacement of vertebrae. Both conditions may coexist in some cases ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis indicated that facet tropism is associated with lumbar disc herniation and degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, suggesting that variations in facet joint ...

Researchers found that patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis had up to three times higher levels of certain gut bacteria compared to those without the condition. In a recent study published ...

Radiographs of the lumbar spine demonstrated degenerative disc disease at L4–L5, with associated anterolisthesis (Fig. 1). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed Meyerding grade-1 ...

The devices are intended to treat degenerative disc disease and spondylolisthesis other than either severe spondylolisthesis (grades 3 and 4) at L5-S1, or degenerative spondylolisthesis with objective ...

Lumbar degenerative diseases encompass various conditions, such as lumbar spondylolisthesis, lumbar disc herniation, and lumbar spinal stenosis, which are summarized by the overall state of the lumbar ...