Scoliosis Surgery in Cystic Fibrosis: Surgical Considerations and the Multidisciplinary Approach of a Rare Case

Table 1

Previous studies presenting scoliosis data in patients with CF [3–8].

	Age groups	Mean age at diagnosis (range)	Number of patients	Male : female ratio	Scoliosis patients	Male : female ratio	Scoliosis angle (range)	Number of progressive curves/number of patients with scoliosis (percent, %)	Prevalence (%)
Erkkila et al. [4]	Infantile (0–4)	NR	58	NR	0	NR	—	NR	26
	4 to 16	NR	128	NR	7 (6%)	NR	NR (10–28)	NR
	>19 (adult)	NR	17	NR	3 (18%)	NR	NR (16–26)	NR	12
Paling and Spasovsky-Chernick [9]	Infantile (0–4)	NR	32	NR	0	7 : 9	N/A	0	0
	4 to 16	15 (8–22)	151	96 : 55	15 (9.9%)	8 : 7	17 (10–31)	NR	9.93
	Adult (>16)						25 (15–31)	NR
Kumar et al. [11]	0 to 4	2 (1–3)	42	1.8 : 1	5 (11.91%)	4 : 1	15 (10–16)	0	11.90
	4 to 16	9 (5–15)	90	1 : 1.6	14 (15.56%)	2 : 5	12 (11–25)	4/14 (28.57)	15.56
	Adult (16–43)	27 (17–43)	184	1.1 : 1	18 (9.78%)	2 : 5	15 (10–30)	2/18 (11.11)	9.78
Fainardi et al. [5]	0 to adult	10.9 (1.1–18)	319	1 : 1.1	7 (2.19%)	2 : 5	<20 (up to 37)	1/7 (14.29)	2.19
Fainardi and Bush [6]	10 to adult	(10–18)	173	NR	7 (4.05%)	NR	NR	NR	4.05
Hathorn et al. [7]	10 to adult	18 (10–18+)	143	NR	16 (11.19%)	NR	14 (10–38)	NR	11

Scoliosis and kyphosis in all age groups; prevalence of scoliosis in ages from 15 to adult; N/A: not applicable; NR: not reported.