Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy—recent updates and future directions

BY DR AYUSH SHARMA

About the author

Dr Ayush Sharma, D. Ortho, DNB, MS, Dip SICOT, Global Spine Diploma (AO Spine) is director of Laser Spine with a special interest in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS) and Cervical Myelopathy.

  • Fellowships in Spine Surgery
    • Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, New Delhi,
    • HELIOS Klinikum, Erfurt, Germany,
    • The General Hospital of Attica "KAT" Athens,
    • Salford Royal hospital, Salford, UK,
    • Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester, UK
    • Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
    • Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, California, USA

  • Director LASER SPINE (www.laserspine.in)
  • Chief Spine surgeon and unit head of spine surgery, Department of Orthopaedic and Spine surgery Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Central Railway Hospital, Mumbai, India
  • Executive Member ASSI (Association of Spine Surgeons of India) 2021–2023
  • Executive Member BSS (Bombay Spine Society) 2021–2024
  • AO Spine India delegate 2021–2022

References and further reading:

  1. Sharma A, Marathe N, Aggarwal R, Singh V, Shakya A, Kamble P, Jaiswal A, Mangale N, Rocos B. Prospective Randomized Control Pilot Study to Compare the Role of Injection Cerebrolysin in Operated cases of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy. Spine. 2022 Jan 15;47(2):E58-63.
  2. Bhosale S, Ingale P, Srivastava S, Marathe N, Bhide P. Diffusion tensor imaging as an additional postoperative prognostic predictor factor in cervical myelopathy patients: an observational study. Journal of Craniovertebral Junction & Spine. 2019 Jan;10(1):10.
  3. Hejrati N, Moghaddamjou A, Marathe N, Fehlings MG. Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Towards a Personalized Approach. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. 2021 Oct 25:1-2.
  4. Sharma Sr A. 230. Does elevated mean arterial pressure lead to better outcomes in degenerative cervical myelopathy: a prospective, pilot randomized control trial. The Spine Journal. 2021 Sep 1;21(9):S118.
  5. Sharma A, Kishore H, Singh V, Shawky Abdelgawaad A, Sinha S, Kamble PC, Jorule K, Agrawal R, Mathapati S, Deepak P. Comparative study of functional outcome of anterior cervical decompression and interbody fusion with tricortical stand-alone iliac crest autograft versus stand-alone polyetheretherketone cage in cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Global Spine J. 2018 Dec;8(8):860-5.
  6. AO Spine REsearch Objectives and COmmon Data Elements for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy (RECODE-DCM) and the top ten research priorities for DCM. The international, multi-stakeholder initiative is creating a 'Research Toolkit' that helps accelerate knowledge discovery and improve outcomes in DCM.

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