ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2020
Current Concepts in the Management of Vertebral Compression Fractures.
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- ESR Essentials: Vertebral augmentation for osteoporotic fractures-practice recommendations by the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe.European radiology · 2026Guideline
- The Prevalence and Risk Factors of Residual Back Pain After Vertebroplasty for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Orthopaedic surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty versus conservative treatment and placebo in osteoporotic vertebral fractures: meta-analysis and critical review of the literature.European radiology · 2021Pooled it
- Minimal kyphotic progression following pediatric vertebral fractures: implications for reduced radiographic surveillance.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2026Article
- Performance of DeepSeek-R1 and ChatGPT-5 in the Generation of North American Spine Society Clinical Guidelines for Adult Vertebral Compression Fractures: Comparative Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- The Elusive Concept of Stability in Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Role of SEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
- Health-related Quality of Life After Vertebral Augmentation for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures.Current osteoporosis reports · 2026Review
- Outcomes and safety of vertebral augmentation with expandable intravertebral implants for osteoporotic vertebral fractures: a retrospective cohort study with subgroup analysis on type OF4 fractures.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- Segment-specific prediction of vertebral collapse severity in osteoporotic fractures.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Short-term gains, long-term pains: a comparative study of percutaneous vertebroplasty vs. kyphoplasty in osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Multivariate Risk Factor Analysis and Clinical Prediction Model Construction of Intercostal Neuralgia Following Single-Segment Osteoporotic Thoracic Vertebral Compression Fractures.International journal of general medicine · 2026Article
- Effects of modified vertebral bone quality score and paravertebral muscle mass on multiple osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: a retrospective multicenter cohort study.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
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- Association between sarcopenia on residual back pain after percutaneous kyphoplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Thoracolumbar kyphosis prognoses poor results after proximal femoral fracture: a 3-year multicenter prospective cohort study.Journal of bone and mineral metabolism · 2025Article
- Association between dietary carotenoid intake and vertebral fracture in people aged 50 years and older: a study based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.Archives of osteoporosis · 2025Article
- The effectiveness of balloon kyphoplasty compared to conservative treatment for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Interventional pain medicine · 2025Review
- Integrating manual annotation with deep transfer learning and radiomics for vertebral fracture analysis.BMC medical imaging · 2025Article
- Establishment of a risk prediction model for residual back pain after percutaneous kyphoplasty in osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThis comprehensive review of current concepts in the management of vertebral compression fractures is a manuscript of vertebral augmentation literature of risk factors, clinical presentation, and management. The objective of this review is to compare outcomes between multiple augmentation techniques and ongoing discussions of effectiveness of vertebral augmentation procedures. RECENT
findingsVertebral compression fractures (VCFs) are a prevalent disease affecting approximately 1.5 million US adults annually. VCFs can cause severe physical limitations, including back pain, functional disability, and progressive kyphosis of the thoracic spine that ultimately results in decreased appetite, poor nutrition, impaired pulmonary function, and spinal cord compression with motor and sensory deficits. The deconditioning that affects patients with vertebral compression fractures leads to mortality at a far higher rate than age-matched controls. The management of vertebral compression fractures has been extensively discussed with opponents arguing in favor or restricting conservative management and against augmentation, while proponents argue in favor of augmentation. The literature is well established in reference to the effects on mortality when patients undergo treatment with vertebral augmentation; in over a million patients with vertebral compression fractures treated with vertebral augmentation as compared with patients treated with non-surgical management, the patients receiving augmentation performed well with a decrease in morbidity and mortality. Summary of the literature review shows that understanding the risk factors, appropriate clinical evaluation, and management strategies are crucial. Analysis of the evidence shows, based on level I and II studies, balloon kyphoplasty had significantly better and vertebroplasty tended to have better pain reduction compared with non-surgical management. In addition, balloon kyphoplasty tended to have better height restoration than vertebroplasty.
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