Cannabis use before spine surgery is a question many patients and surgeons now face with very little procedure-specific guidance. This review examines a 2026 study of spinopelvic fusion patients and finds that preoperative cannabis use was not associated with significantly worse recovery or complication rates in that cohort. It also explains what the study does not show, where caution still belongs, and why individualized perioperative counseling remains the right standard.
Laparoscopic Bile Duct Surgery: Normal-Sized Ducts May Be as Safe as Dilated Ones for a Novel Stent Technique
No significant differences were observed in operative time, blood loss, hospital stay, costs, or complications between the normal and dilated CBD groups after propensity score matching, suggesting CBD diameter alone should not preclude this technique.