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ArticleRespiratory medicine case reports2018

Cement pulmonary embolism after percutaneous vertebroplasty in a patient with cushing's syndrome: A case report.

Besharat Rahimi, Behdad Boroofeh, Roshan Dinparastisaleh, Hale Nazifi

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Article in Respiratory medicine case reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The impact of different bone cement distribution patterns on cement leakage in percutaneous curved vertebroplasty versus bilateral percutaneous vertebroplasty.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 · 2026
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Besharat RahimiPulmonology Department, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Behdad BoroofehPulmonology Department, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Roshan DinparastisalehInternal Medicine Department, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
Hale NazifiInternal Medicine Department, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
Imam Khomeini Hospital · IRUrmia University of Medical Sciences

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundVertebroplasty is a procedure most commonly used for vertebral compression fractures. Although it is a relatively safe procedure, complications have been reported. Cement embolism is seen in 2.1%-26% of patients after percutaneous vertebroplasty. CASE PRESENTATION: a 38-year-old male who was diagnosed with cushing's syndrome, underwent percutaneous vertebroplasty for his thoracic osteoporotic compression fractures. 24-hours following vertebroplasty, he presented to emergency department with acute-onset dyspnea and chest pain. Chest radiography showed an opaque linear lesion in left pulmonary artery which was suggestive of cement embolism. Pulmonary spiral CT-scan further confirmed the diagnosis. The patient's symptoms improved over time, and warfarin was started with close cardiopulmonary assessments for indicators of cement embolus removal.

conclusionin patients with pulmonary cement embolism, conservative treatment may be recommended rather than a surgical removal except when the obstruction is extensive enough to cause hemodynamic changes. Given that all the related studies have suggested that pulmonary thromboembolism can occur as a complication due to bone cement leakage, discovering new cement alternatives and/or injection devices, seems beneficial.

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Cement embolismComplicationscushing's syndromePercutaneous vertebroplasty

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