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Balloon Kyphoplasty and Lordoplasty
2006The expected increase in the elderly population over the next decades will present major challenges for the health care systems in Western countries. Maladies of the musculoskeletal system represent the second or third most important burden of disease, and osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures are the leading causes of disability among the elderly (1)
Paul F. Heini +2 more
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Kyphoplasty: Balloon Assisted Vertebroplasty
2010Pain relief after Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (PV) has been reported in 85-90% of patients with Vertebral Compression Fractures (VCFs),1-4 but the deformity of the vertebral body or the subsequent kyphosis (usually related to multiple compressions) was not a primary focus of this procedure when it was first introduced5 (For a more exhaustive treatment ...
John M. Mathis +2 more
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[Vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty].
Neuro-Chirurgie, 2010Since the first report more than 20 years ago, vertebroplasty is now performed as a routine procedure by radiologists. The main goal of this technique is to fill the fractured vertebral body with PMMA cement to improve its stability. The efficiency of vertebroplasty on spinal pain related to osteoporotic fractures or the tumorous process has been ...
S, Fuentes, B, Blondel
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Indications and experience with balloon kyphoplasty in trauma
2008The safety and treatment possibilities of balloon kyphoplasty have rapidly led to the use of this technique in traumatic vertebral fractures. Initially balloon kyphoplasty was used in osteoporotic patients who sustained a fall and a subsequent traumatic fracture; however, the general rules of balloon kyphoplasty also apply in trauma cases and the ...
Jorrit-Jan Verlaan +5 more
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[Balloon kyphoplasty in the treatment of back pain].
Der Radiologe, 2006Experience of just under 5 years has shown that balloon kyphoplasty can be just as successfully employed as the longer-stablished vertebroplasty for the treatment of back pain due to recent or prior osteoporotic fractures as well as new traumatic fractures.Among 345 patients with a total of 690 treated vertebral bodies, the change in pain ...
G, Nöldge +7 more
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[Balloon kyphoplasty in the therapy of vertebral fractures].
Der Orthopade, 2007Approximately 500,000 vertebral fractures occur as a result of osteoporosis every year in Europe. One third of the patients thus affected complain of severe back pain and seek treatment. In the past, the treatment of such fractures was limited to conservative methods, such as the use of braces and analgesics and long-term immobilisation followed by ...
K, DaFonseca +6 more
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Balloon kyphoplasty of T8 in an osteoporotic fracture
European Spine Journal, 2015Marie-Therese, Unterweger +1 more
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