The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 57, Issue 5 643-647, Copyright © 1975 by Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc
Myelodysplastics--fate of those followed for twenty years or more
GA Barden, LC Meyer and FH Stelling
Of a total of 143 myelodysplastic patients treated between 1928 and 1951,
there were sixty-three patients with severe myelodysplasia whose records
allowed long-term review. At the time of writing twenty-nine were alive and
were twenty to forty-three years old. All were walking in the hospital
while under an intensive physical therapy program. However only two of the
nine with twelfth thoracic-second lumbar function were walking at final
follow-up as adults, while nineteen of the twenty with function at the
third lumbar level were doing so. The status of the hips did not correlate
with the ability to walk. One-third of the survivors were self-supporting
at the time of writing. About one-half had scoliosis and in one-third was
greater than 20 degrees.
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