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A total of 27,912 patients were identified, representing an estimated 137,928 of weighted patients who underwent primary anterior lumbar spine fusion procedures. Patients undergoing ALIF had a mean age of 54.3 (SD &amp;#177; 14.1) with 56.3&amp;#37; being female patients. The majority of patients were white (82.2&amp;#37;), privately insured (50.4&amp;#37;), had a median household income of $48,000-62,999 (27.1&amp;#37;) and had a Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) score of 0.44 (SD &amp;#177; 0.8). The majority of procedures were performed in the South region of the U.S. (39.5&amp;#37;), in nonteaching hospitals (54.5&amp;#37;), in hospitals that were private\/not-for-profit (70.4&amp;#37;). The overall complications rate was 4.7&amp;#37; and the mortality rate was 0.2&amp;#37; for the procedure. The most common complications were durotomy (1.2&amp;#37;) followed by cardiac complications (0.7&amp;#37;), hematomas (0.7&amp;#37;), DVT (0.6&amp;#37;) and infections (0.6&amp;#37;). Neurologic complications rates were 0.4&amp;#37; and PE was the lowest reported complication observed in the study at 0.1&amp;#37;. This study showed that ALIF has low complication and mortality rate making it a safe and viable surgical option in the management of various lumbar pathologies.<\/p>","DOI":"10.1615\/jlongtermeffmedimplants.2026049404","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,30]],"date-time":"2026-01-30T17:15:27Z","timestamp":1769793327000},"page":"29-35","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Anterior Lumbar Spinal Fusion Remains a Safe Surgical Option with Low Perioperative Morbidity and Mortality: Analysis of the US National Inpatient Sample (NIS)"],"prefix":"10.1615","volume":"36","author":[{"given":"Neil","family":"Patel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Srikaran","family":"Kalahasti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Siraj","family":"Shaikh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"George","family":"Abdelmalek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Coban","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nikhil","family":"Sahai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kumar","family":"Sinha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ki","family":"Hwang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Arash","family":"Emami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"613","reference":[{"key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Rajaee SS, Bae HW, Kanim LEA, Delamarter RB. 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