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Article: Balloon kyphoplasty may aid vertebral fractures.(Musculoskeletal Disorders)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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VIENNA -- Balloon kyphoplasty for vertebral compression fractures proved to be a safe and markedly more effective alternative to conservative management in a prospective 12-month comparative study, Arnd Lienert, M.D., Ph.D., said at the annual European congress of rheumatology.
He reported on 19 patients who underwent balloon kyphoplasty and 17 who opted instead for conservative management of monosegmental osteoporotic vertebral fractures in a nonrandomized study.
During 1 year of follow-up, 13 of 17 conservatively managed patients developed a total of 23 new radiographically proven vertebral fractures, of which 19 occurred adjacent to the index ...