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Review clinical articles, recent news and also links to other organizations focused on Vertebroplasty.

Clinical Articles: vertebroplasty , malignant lesions

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General Research

• Latent Mobility of Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 17:1479-1487 (2006), Fergus McKiernan, MD, Tom Faciszewski, MD and Ron Jensen, PT
• Treatment of Chronic Symptomatic Vertebral Compression Fractures with Percutaneous Vertebroplasty AJR 2004 (pdf file); 182:319-322
• Occurrence of New Vertebral Body Fracture after Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in Patients with Osteoporosis
  Radiology 2003 226: 119-124 (DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2261011911)
• Vertebral Compression Fractures: Pain Reduction and Improvement in Functional Mobility after Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
  Radiology 2003 226: 366-372. December 2002
• Prospective Evaluation of Pain Relief in 100 Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
  Results and Follow-up (McGraw, et al, JVIR, Sept 2002)
• Vertebroplasty in the Mid- and Upper Thoracic Spine
  AJNR Aug 2002
• Percutaneous Vertebroplasty: New Treatment for Vertebral Compression Fractures
  American Family Physician , Aug 2002
• Percutaneous Vertebroplasty for Severe Osteoporotic Vertebral Body Compression Fractures
  Peh, et al, Radiology, Feb 2002

Patient Information

• Healthy Utah Magazine discusses innovative treatments for patients with vertebral compression fractures due to osteoporosis
• New! New Treatments for Severe Back Pain Caused by Fractures featured on WTVI featuring Dr. Murphy, Interventional Radiologist, Wellstar Health System
• Spine Fracture Awareness Tool Kit
• View Vertebroplasty Animation
• Review our media clips

Clinical Articles

• The VERTOS II trial, published online Aug 9 in Lancet, has refuted earlier studies by demonstrating that vertebroplasty is safe, effective and available at an acceptable cost for patients with acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures. Read more.
• Kyphoplasty and Vertebroplasty Produce the Same Degree of Height Restoration
  AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2009 30: 669-673 originally published online on January 8 2009, 10.3174/ajnr.A1442 .
• New vertebral osteoporotic compression fractures after percutaneous vertebroplasty: Retrospective analysis of risk factors, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR 2008). Key findings: adequate fracture stabilization in patients NOT height restoration that can help lead to fewer new fractures post treatment.
• Position Statement from SIR on VCF treatments, March 2007
• A novel technique for treating vertebral compression fractures (VCF) caused by malignant tumors demonstrated significant pain relief with no complications, according to a study completed by two leading interventional radiologists from UCSD Medical Center and recently published in the American Journal of Neuroradiology (April 2007).
• Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation: An Elevation in Adjacent-Level Fracture Risk in Kyphoplasty as Compared With Vertebroplasty. The Spine Journal, 2007, Dr. B. Frankel
• Percutaneous Vertebroplasty Compared with Optimal Pain Medication Treatment: Short-Term Clinical Outcome of Patients with Painful Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures. American Journal of Neuroradiology 28:555-560, March 2007.
• Vertebroplasty, First 1000 Levels of a Single Center: Evaluation of the Outcomes and Complications. American Journal of Neuroradiology 28:683-689, April 2007. K.F. Layton and D.F. Kallmes et al
• 2007 Pain Physician article: Vertebroplasty, a systematic approach,
  by MI Syed, MD
• Clinical outcomes after acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures: a 2-year non-randomised trial comparing percutaneous vertebroplasty with conservative therapy (by Terrence H Diamond MD. Et al) , MJA 2006; 184 (3)
• Prospective analysis of clinical outcomes after percutaneous vertebroplasty for painful osteoporotic vertebral body fractures. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2005; 7 (26): 1623-8. Dr's. Do HM et al.
• Surgeon radiation exposure during vertebroplasty: gloves cut down on radiation exposure 75%. J Neurosurg Spine. 2006 Feb;4(2):106-9.
• Quality of Life Following Vertebroplasty
  (PDF article Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery)
• Radiology Information: Vertebroplasty Focus
• Vertebroplasty
  From SIR, Oct 2002
• Vertebroplasty for Spine Fracture Pain
  From American Family Physician, Aug 2002
• Vertebral Fractures and Vertebroplasty
  August 2006, Spine Universe

Other links

Societies

• American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology (ASITN)
• American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR)
• American Society of Spine Radiology (ASSR)
• Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
• Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)

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