• Adjacent Disc Degeneration After Lumbar Total Disc Replacement or Non-operative Treatment: A Randomized Study With Eight-year Follow-up. 

      Furunes, Håvard; Hellum, Christian; Espeland, Ansgar; Brox, Jens Ivar; Småstuen, Milada C; Berg, Linda; Storheim, Kjersti (Spine;Volume 43, Number 24, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-01)
      Study design: Randomized controlled multicenter trial with eight-year follow-up. Objective; To assess the long-term development of adjacent disc degeneration (ADD) after lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) or non-operative ...
    • Decompression alone or with fusion for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis (Nordsten-DS): five year follow-up of a randomised, multicentre, non-inferiority trial 

      Kgomotso, Eric Loratang; Hellum, Christian; Fagerland, Morten; Solberg, Tore; Brox, Jens Ivar; Storheim, Kjersti; Hermansen, Erland; Franssen, Eric; Weber, Clemens; Brisby, Helena; Algaard, Knut Robert Hector; Furunes, Håvard; Banitalebi, Hasan; Ljøstad, Inger; Indrekvam, Kari; Austevoll, Ivar Magne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Objective: To assess whether decompression alone is non-inferior to decompression with instrumented fusion five years after primary surgery in patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. Design: Five year follow-up ...
    • Evaluation of the EQ-5D-3L and 5L versions in low back pain patients 

      Garratt, Andrew; Furunes, Håvard; Hellum, Christian; Solberg, Tore; Brox, Jens Ivar; Storheim, Kjersti; Johnsen, Lars Gunnar (Health and Quality of Life Outcomes;19:155, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-28)
      Background: The EuroQol EQ-5D is one of the most widely researched and applied patient-reported outcome measures worldwide. The original EQ-5D-3L and more recent EQ-5D-5L include three and five response categories respectively. ...
    • Lumbar total disc replacement: predictors for long-term outcome 

      Furunes, Håvard; Hellum, Christian; Brox, Jens Ivar; Rossvoll, Ivar; Espeland, Ansgar; Berg, Linda; Brøgger, Helga Maria; Småstuen, Milada C; Storheim, Kjersti (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Purpose We aimed to identify patient characteristics associated with favourable long-term outcomes after lumbar total disc replacement (TDR). Methods We analysed a cohort of 82 patients with degenerative disc and ...
    • Surgery in Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: Does fusion improve outcome in subgroups? A secondary analysis from a randomized trial (NORDSTEN trial) 

      Hellum, Christian; Rekeland, Frode Gurvin; Småstuen, Milada Cvancarova; Solberg, Tore; Hermansen, Erland; Storheim, Kjersti; Brox, Jens Ivar; Furunes, Håvard; Franssen, Eric; Weber, Clemens; Brisby, Helena; Grundnes, Oliver; Robert Hector Algaard, Knut; Bøker, Tordis; Banitalebi, Hasan; Indrekvam, Kari; Austevoll, Ivar Magne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Patients with spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis are treated surgically with decompression alone or decompression with fusion. However, there is debate regarding which subgroups of ...