Osteoporosis is a metabolic disorder which may result in devastating medical problems if not treated appropriately. However, even in the best treated patients fractures may occur. The most devastating fractures are spine and hip. Traditionally, treating fractures of the spine consisted of bed rest, opioid analgesic medications, and bracing. This resulted in increased risk of side-effects from m...

Dear Sir, The recent publication on unipedicular baloon kyphoplasty is very interesting [1]. It demonstrates that high seroprevalence could be seen [1]. La Maida et al. [1] found that “Both vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are effective in treating vertebral compression fracture due to multiple myeloma.” This is concordant with the biomechanical properties of the two techniques [2]. Hence, the se...

The diagnosis of Kümmell's disease mainly depends on clinical and radiologic findings. However, these are not the gold standards for diagnosing this disease; bone biopsy is required. The authors performed modified bone biopsy and cement-filling techniques during kyphoplasty and investigated the feasibility and efficacy of kyphoplasty for the treatment of Kümmell's disease. This study included 2...

Among individuals aged 50-80 years, 5-20% have one or more vertebral crush fractures. One-third of these patients require treatment for acute or chronic pain. Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty were introduced over the last two decades as treatments for incapacitating pain from osteoporotic vertebral fractures. Both techniques proved effective and safe in numerous retrospective and prospective stud...

Balloon kyphoplasty is a common treatment for osteoporotic and pathologic compression fractures. Advantages include minimal tissue disruption, quick recovery, pain relief, and in some cases prevention of progressive sagittal deformity. The benefit of image-based navigation in kyphoplasty has not been established. The goal of this study was to determine whether there is a difference between fluo...

It is the position of the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, Society of Interventional Radiology, American Association of Neurologic Surgeons/Congress of Neurologic Surgeons, and American Society of Spine Radiology (“the Societies”) that percutaneous vertebral augmentation with vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty is a safe, efficacious, and durable procedure in approp...

STUDY DESIGN Systematic literature review. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty using the data presented in published clinical studies, with respect to patient pain relief, restoration of mobility and vertebral body height, complication rate, and incidence of new adjacent vertebral fractures. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Vertebroplasty and kyphoplast...

STUDY DESIGN Literature review. OBJECTIVES To describe new treatments for painful osteoporotic compression fractures in light of available scientific literature and clinical experience. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Painful vertebral osteoporotic compression fractures lead to significant morbidity and mortality. This relates to pulmonary dysfunction, eating disorders (nutritional deficits), pa...

INTRODUCTION Balloon kyphoplasty provides symptomatic relief of vertebral compression fractures in elderly patients. Peri-operative complications are rare; however, they can potentially be devastating. To the best of our knowledge, complications during balloon kyphoplasty have not been described previously in published case reports. CASE PRESENTATION A 66-year-old man who was a farmer of Cauc...