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In-hospital death and mortality rates at 1 year and follow-up were assessed. A survey was conducted using the following questionnaires: Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), Short Form Work Ability Index (SF-WAI), 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), and Short Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ). We investigated the correlation between the assessed variables and clinical data including patient age, comorbidity score at admission, number of operated levels, corpectomy, and length of hospital stay.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Results\u2003In-hospital mortality rate was 1.8% and 1-year mortality rate was 5.5%. At the final follow-up (mean 7\u2009\u00b1\u20096 years), the mortality rate was 45.4%. Seventy-four patients were lost to follow-up or refused to participate in the study. Forty-four patients responded to the survey and had a mean age of 73 years and mean follow-up of 7\u2009\u00b1\u20092 years. In the ODI questionnaire, disability grades were classified as minimal (23%), moderate (21%), severe (19%), complete (33%), and bed bound (4%). We found a significant correlation between inability to return to work and severe disability on ODI (p\u2009&lt;\u20090.001), as well as a low score on any component of the SF-36 (p\u2009&lt;\u20090.05).<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Conclusion\u2003Despite low in-hospital and 1-year mortality rates, patients with surgically treated pyogenic spondylodiskitis are prone to long-term limitation in all domains of quality of life, especially in physical health and work ability.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0042-1750176","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,25]],"date-time":"2022-07-25T22:42:20Z","timestamp":1658788940000},"page":"65-68","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Postoperative Quality of Life in Patients with Pyogenic Spondylodiscitis"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"84","author":[{"given":"Tammam","family":"Abboud","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Magdalena","family":"Krolikowska-Fluori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Patrick","family":"Melich","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Veit","family":"Rohde","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9221-0843","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bawarjan","family":"Schatlo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,25]]},"reference":[{"issue":"13","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1668","DOI":"10.1097\/00007632-200007010-00010","article-title":"Hematogenous pyogenic spinal infections and their surgical management","volume":"25","author":"A G Hadjipavlou","year":"2000","journal-title":"Spine"},{"issue":"S 01","key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"143","DOI":"10.1007\/s00586-009-0979-8","article-title":"Evaluation of conservative treatment of non specific spondylodiscitis","volume":"18","author":"N Bettini","year":"2009","journal-title":"Eur Spine J"},{"issue":"08","key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1837","DOI":"10.1007\/s00586-012-2614-3","article-title":"Failure modes in conservative and surgical management of infectious spondylodiscitis","volume":"22","author":"K Valancius","year":"2013","journal-title":"Eur Spine J"},{"issue":"02","key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"413","DOI":"10.1007\/s00264-011-1441-1","article-title":"Surgical treatment of spondylodiscitis. 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