ArticleEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2014
Analysis of risk factors of subsequent fractures after vertebroplasty.
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- Development of a nomogram model for prediction of new adjacent vertebral compression fractures after vertebroplasty.BMC surgery · 2023Article
- A Prospective Evaluation of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fracture Patients.Cureus · 2023Article
- Prediction model of adjacent vertebral compression fractures after percutaneous kyphoplasty: a retrospective study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Correlation of Sagittal Imbalance and Recollapse after Percutaneous Vertebroplasty for Thoracolumbar Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fracture: A Multivariate Study of Risk Factors.Asian spine journal · 2022Article
- Vertebral refracture after percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with and without brace wearing: A retrospective study of 300 patients.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- What Are the Risk Factors for Adjacent Vertebral Fracture After Vertebral Augmentation? A Meta-Analysis of Published Studies.Global spine journal · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study is to identify risk factors related to the development of subsequent fractures after vertebroplasty.
methodA retrospective study was conducted to review 175 patients with a 1-year follow-up who underwent vertebroplasty for first-time and single-level osteoporotic vertebral fractures. Subsequent fractures were diagnosed as recurrent intractable back pain, post-operatively correlated with MR image. Clinical parameters, such as age, gender, baseline VAS-score, lumbar bone mineral density (BMD) T-score, history of use of steroids, bisphosphonate therapy, symptom-free interval, the amount of bone cement injected, vacuum clefts, leakage of cement into the disk space, treated level and the changes of spinal geometry were recorded.
resultsDuring the follow-up period, subsequent fractures developed in 37 (21.1 %) of 175 patients. Significant differences (P < 0.05) were found between the patients with subsequent fractures and the patients without subsequent fractures in regard to their BMD T-score, and treated vertebrae location. Average BMD T-score was -3.4 ± 1.5 in patients with subsequent fractures and -2.9 ± 1.6 in patients without subsequent fractures. The percentage of subsequent fractures was 13.9 % (10 of 72) for treated vertebrae located in non-thoracolumbar junction, and 26.2 % (27 of 103) in the thoracolumbar junction.
conclusionThe most important risk factors affecting subsequent fractures after vertebroplasty were osteoporosis and treated level at the thoracolumbar junction.
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