Optimal Treatment Strategies for Lumbar Spondylolisthesis

Abstract

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. To earn CME credit, you must read the CME article and complete the quiz and evaluation assessment survey on the enclosed form, answering at least 70% of the quiz questions correctly. This activity expires on January 31, 2019. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: After participating in this CME activity, the spine surgeon should be better able to: 1. Define an optimal treatment strategy for symptomatic degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, emphasizing the best evidence for choosing a decompression alone versus a decompression with an associated fusion. 2. Identify the evidence for posterior interbody fusion versus posterior instrumented lateral fusion in degenerative spondylolisthesis. 3. Interpret the evidence for anterior interbody fusion and lateral interbody fusion in degenerative spondylolisthesis.