The presence of a vertebral fracture increases the risk of a new fracture within a year by at least five times and the risk further increases in case of recurrent fractures (domino effect).The pain and fracture kyphosis can compromise respiratory function. Many patients sustain serious cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, metabolic, and immune complications related to immobility and bedrest. This s...

Securing telemedicine services is essentially a critical and urgent topic. However, in many existing telemedicine systems security related issues are seldom seriously considered. In this paper, we introduce an image-based simulated system for kyphoplasty telesurgery, wherein special attentions are drawn to address the security problems. Among others, various security requirements of the system ...

Percutaneous vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty are less invasive treatment options than open surgery for patients with vertebral compression fractures. With balloon kyphoplasty, the injection of bone cement is preceded by inflation and removal of bone tamps (balloons) inside the fractured vertebral body. This allows for the creation of a void, where viscous cement is delivered resulting in...

Eighty-seven osteoporotic vertebral fractures of 82 patients were treated with balloon kyphoplasty. Preoperative, postoperative and follow-up outcomes of functional impairment, pain scores and vertebral height restorations of the patients were recorded and evaluated statistically. Seventy-two of the patients were female (87.8%) and 10 (12.2%) were male. Mean age of all patients were 66.4 years....

The phrase “vertebroplasty versus kyphoplasty” evokes images of competitive procedures and groups of entrenched physicians locked in battle. Our involvement in the development and introduction of percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) and kyphoplasty (KP) in the United States has given us a unique perspective on the safety and efficacy of both procedures. We feel that PV and KP both offer potential b...

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Objective: To study the Efficacy of Balloon Kyphoplasty in compression fractures thoracolumbar spine.
 Material and Methods: This was conducted on 95 patients with wedge from 2017 to 2022. Complete neurological examination CT MRI scans spine all were done. All have been treated a balloon kyphoplasty procedure. Data collected VAS score, SF-36 kyphotic angle percentage vertebral body destruc...