@article{Gul_Mehmood_Ikram_2020, title={RETROSPECTIVE DATA REVIEW TO FIND THE ASSOCIATION OF LUMBOSACRAL TRANSITIONAL VERTEBRA AND DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE IN YOUNG PATIENTS}, volume={70}, url={https://pafmj.org/PAFMJ/article/view/3997}, DOI={10.51253/pafmj.v70i6.3997}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Objective:</strong> To find out the frequency of lumbar disc degeneration among the patients having lumbosacral<br>transitional vertebra between 20-40 years.</p> <p><strong>Study Design:</strong> Retrospective cross sectional study.</p> <p><strong>Place and Duration of Study:</strong> Radiology department POF Wah Cantt, from Jan 2018 to Dec 2019.</p> <p><strong>Methodology:</strong> Six Hundred patients between 20-40 years having lumbosacral transitional vertebra and history<br>of low back pain >1 year were studied. X ray and MRI lumbar spine of these patients was studied retrospectively<br>on PACS. Two hundred patients having history of traumatic or other non-traumatic etiologies, in addition to<br>Lumbosacral transitional vertebra were excluded. Four hundred patients with only lumbosacral transitional<br>vertebra were included. Data analysis was done by SPSS-22. Castellvi types of transitional vertebra was calculated among patients with degenerative lumbar disc.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> One hundred and four (26.6%) were having degenerative disc disease while 296 (74.4%) patients were<br>not having degenerative disc disease. Patients having degenerative disc disease were between 24-40 years with<br>the mean age 29.96 ± 0.417 years. Among the patients having degenerative disc disease were 59 women and<br>45 males but no statistical significance association was found between gender and degenerative disc disease with p-value = 0.55. Castellvi type III had significant association with degenerative disc disease, p-value = 0.006.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Age related disc degeneration is commonly seen in middle age people but in younger age group in<br>2nd and 3rd decade it is observed frequently in those patients having lumbosacral transitional vertebra especially in the setting of no other associated traumatic or non-traumatic etiology, which leads to early degenerative disc disease.</p>}, number={6}, journal={Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal}, author={Gul, Nadia and Mehmood, Khalid and Ikram, Muhammad}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={1734–39} }