ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2018
Comparative study of the paraspinal muscles after OVF between the insufficient union and sufficient union using MRI.
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- The Relation of Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures and Sarcopenic Characteristics on the Occurrence of Complications: A Systematic Review.Clinical interventions in aging · 2025Pooled it
- Role of paraspinal muscle degeneration in the occurrence and recurrence of osteoporotic vertebral fracture: A meta-analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Pooled it
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- Analysis of factors associated with intercostal neuralgia after osteoporotic thoracic spine fracture and construction of a prediction model.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Article
- Muscle fat infiltration: a narrative review of the magnetic resonance (MR)-based evaluation methods and their clinical applications.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Review
- Risk factors for secondary vertebral compression fracture after percutaneous vertebral augmentation: a single-centre retrospective study.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Article
- Evaluation of lumbar paraspinal muscles degeneration and fatty infiltration in dynamic sagittal imbalance based on magnetic resonance imaging.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 · 2024Article
- Risk factors for residual back pain following percutaneous vertebral augmentation: the importance of paraspinal muscle fatty degeneration.International orthopaedics · 2023Article
- Significance of paraspinal muscle quality in risk between single and multiple osteoporotic vertebral 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 · 2023Article
- Radiological Assessment of Postoperative Paraspinal Muscle Changes After Lumbar Interbody Fusion With or Without Minimally Invasive Techniques.Global spine journal · 2023Article
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- Impact of Multifidus Muscle Atrophy on the Occurrence of Secondary Symptomatic Adjacent Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures.Calcified tissue international · 2022Article
- Fat infiltration of paraspinal muscles as an independent risk for bone nonunion after posterior lumbar interbody fusion.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- Risk factors affecting vertebral collapse and kyphotic progression in postmenopausal osteoporotic vertebral fractures.Journal of bone and mineral metabolism · 2022Article
- What are risk factors for subsequent fracture after vertebral augmentation in patients with thoracolumbar osteoporotic vertebral fractures.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Article
- Impact of paravertebral muscle in thoracolumbar and lower lumbar regions on outcomes following osteoporotic vertebral fracture: a multicenter cohort study.Archives of osteoporosis · 2021Article
- Factors affecting postoperative mortality of patients with insufficient union following osteoporotic vertebral fractures and impact of preoperative serum albumin on mortality.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2020Article
- Inconsistent descriptions of lumbar multifidus morphology: A scoping review.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundIdentification of poor prognostic factors for OVF is important but has not yet been clearly established. Despite paraspinal muscles could play an important role in the etiology of OVF, what influence time-dependent changes in paraspinal muscles have after OVF, and the impact on conservative treatments for patients who have an OVF remain largely unknown. The purposes of this study were to (1) evaluate time-dependent changes of the paraspinal musculature using MRI after injury in patients with osteoporotic vertebral fractures (OVFs), and (2) compare paraspinal muscles between conservatively treated patients with OVF who have successful union and those failed to conservative treatment.
methodsA total of 115 consecutive patients who had sustained a recent OVF injury in the thoracolumbar region were assessed for eligibility using medical records and all required data were available from 90 patients who had been followed up for at least 6 months. Patients who needed to undergo surgery and patients who were diagnosed as having insufficient union after 6 months of follow-up were assigned to a group with insufficient union. Lumbar trunk parameters, relative cross-sectional area (rCSA) and proportion of fat infiltration (FI%) were calculated from MRI. To evaluate the time-dependent changes in the paraspinal muscle in patients after OVF injury, correlations between the timing of MRI and rCSA, FI% were determined. To clarify the impact of paraspinal muscles on the outcome of conservative treatments of patients with OVF, we compared rCSA between the groups.
resultsSixty-five patients were assigned to a group with insufficient union and 25 patients were assigned to a group with successful union. FI% of the multifidus and erector spinae in the group with insufficient union were significantly greater than in the group with union. The timing of MRI in relation to initial injury was significantly correlated with FI% of the multifidus and erector spinae. rCSA of the erector spinae was significantly larger in the group with successful union than in the group with insufficient union.
conclusionsThese findings indicated a time-dependent increase of fatty degeneration of the multifidus and erector muscles, but no change in the rCSA and larger rCSAs of spinal erectors may play a role in successful union in patients with OVF.
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