ReviewThe Medical journal of Australia2010
Vertebroplasty for painful acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures: recent Medical Journal of Australia editorial is not relevant to the patient group that we treat with vertebroplasty.
Review in The Medical journal of Australia, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of vertebroplasty using individual patient data from two randomised placebo controlled trials: meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2011Pooled it
- Vertebroplasty for acute painful osteoporotic fractures (VAPOUR): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2015Trial
- Cochrane vertebroplasty review misrepresented evidence for vertebroplasty with early intervention in severely affected patients.BMJ evidence-based medicine · 2020Article
- Risks and benefits of percutaneous vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty in the management of osteoporotic vertebral fractures.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2014Review
- Impact of sham-controlled vertebroplasty trials on referral patterns at two academic medical centers.Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2013Article
- Continuing conservative care versus crossover to radiofrequency kyphoplasty: a comparative effectiveness study on the treatment of vertebral body fractures.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2012Article
- Vertebroplasty and the placebo response.Radiology · 2011Article
- The case of vertebroplasty trials: promoting a culture of evidence-based procedural medicine.Spine · 2010Article
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Abstract
We use vertebroplasty for patients with the most severe pain caused by osteoporotic vertebral fractures less than 6 weeks old, and have observed dramatic pain relief in this acute setting. A recent editorial in the Journal, written by the authors of two recent vertebroplasty trials, suggested that vertebroplasty is not an effective therapy for acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures. The trials described in the editorial sampled a very different patient cohort to the one that we treat with vertebroplasty. Our clinical experience and most of the published literature relating to the benefits of vertebroplasty are in striking contrast to the opinions presented in that editorial.
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