Reply to the Letter to the Editor of S. Shahsavari et al. concerning "Predicting medical complications in spine surgery: evaluation of a novel online risk calculator" by M. F. Kasparek et al. (Eur Spine J: doi: 10.1007/s00586-018-5707-9)
Eur Spine J. 2018 Nov;27(11):2887-2888.
doi: 10.1007/s00586-018-5784-9.
Epub 2018 Oct 11.
1 Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
2 Adult Reconstruction & Joint Replacement Division, Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70th Street, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
3 Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
4 Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria. josef.grohs@meduniwien.ac.at.