PURPOSE Fractures are associated with cardiovascular diseases in the elderly. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association between aortic calcification (AC) and the risk of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal Chinese women. METHODS A prospective study with 5 years of follow-up in 1724 postmenopausal women (aged 50 years old and older) was conducted from July 2005 to J...

Strontium ranelate is a new orally administered agent for the treatment of women with postmenopausal osteoporosis that reduces the risk of vertebral and hip fractures. Evidence for the safety and efficacy of strontium ranelate comes from two large multinational trials, the SOTI (Spinal Osteoporosis Therapeutic Intervention) and TROPOS (Treatment Of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis) studies. The SOTI...

As the world's population ages, the incidence of osteoporosis defined by decreased bone mass and alteration of microarchitecture has inevitably increased. This results in osteoporosis-associated fracture and leads to debilitating health outcomes and a considerable economic burden on the health care system. In this issue of the Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, Lin and colleagues have ...

Osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with intraosseous vacuum phenomena could cause persistent back pains in patients, even after receiving conservative treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of using high-viscosity bone cement via bilateral percutaneous vertebroplasty in treating patients who have osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with intraosseous vac...

Background: Unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures are treated surgically by short segment fi xation but may be associated with high implant failure. Supplementation of anterior column by insertion of screw at fracture site makes it more biomechanically stable. Objectives: The purpose of this prospective study was to evaluate radiological parameters in thoracolumbar fractures treated with inter...

STUDY DESIGN A case-control study. OBJECTIVE In this study, we investigated the correlation between level-specific preoperative bone mineral density and subsequent vertebral fractures. We also identified factors associated with subsequent vertebral fractures. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Complications of cement augmentation of the spine include subsequent vertebral fractures, leading to unnec...

Vertebroplasty is often used to treat osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCF). The number of affected vertebrae can be reduced to a certain extent by some reduction methods including hyperextension and balloon dilation. There have been only a few studies on the effectiveness of vertebroplasty combined with hyperextension or balloon dilation. We collected data of 216 OVCF patients wh...

ObjectiveThe aim of the present survey was to evaluate whether the results of cardiac measurements using the VHS are a useful indicator of the origin of normal rabbits. DesignExperimental study. AnimalsForty seven adult healthy New Zealand White rabbits (25 male, 22 female) with age 10-18 months and weight 1.5-2.5 Kg. ProceduresTo assess the influence of breed on the vertebral heart scale of ra...

introduction: thermal ablation by microwave (mwa) has proven efficacy in treatment of primary and metastatic cancers. soft tissue tumors could be ablated completely using mwa. however, bony tissue metastasis particularly spinal vertebral metastasis ablation has not reported yet. case presentation: a 50 year old male patient with primary diagnosed colon cancer undergone surgical resection of tum...