A Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Surgery for Infectious Spondylodiscitis of the Thoracic and Upper Lumbar Spine in Immunocompromised Patients

Table 1

Patient demographic data.

Patient number	Age	Gender	Level	Neurological deficit	Associated medical illness
1	71	F	L1-2	Frankle D	Uremia, CHF, RHD
2	60	M	T11-12	Frankle D	CAD, DM, CHF, asthma
3	67	F	T12	Nil	Uremia, DM
4	65	F	L1-2	Nil	HTN, RA
5	55	F	T11-12	Nil	DM, HTN
6	73	F	T12-L1	Mild sensory deficit	DM
7	71	F	T11-T12	Nil	DM, liver cirrhosis, burst fracture T11 vertebra
8	71	M	L1	Frankle D	None
9	84	F	T9-10	Frankle D	HTN, CHF, PSVT
10	63	M	T12-L1-2	Mild sensory deficit	Liver cirrhosis, asthma
11	52	M	L1-2	Nil	BPH
12	49	F	L1-2	Nil	Polycystic liver, kidney s/p liver transplantation
13	72	M	T8-9	Mild sensory deficit	DM
Average	65.6
Standard deviation	9.73

CHF: congestive heart failure, RHD: rheumatic heart disease, CAD: coronary artery disease, DM: diabetes mellitus, HTN: hypertension, RA: rheumatoid arthritis, PSVT: paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, and BPH: benign prostate hypertrophy.