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Results in kyphoplasty, risks and complications

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Balloon Kyphoplasty

Abstract

During recent years kyphoplasty has gained increasing importance in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral body fractures. In addition to the pain-relieving effect, the possibility of reducing the fracture and thus preserving the spinal alignment is advantageous. Patients with these fractures often suffer from chronic pain, as well as the acute pain, because of the increasing kyphotic condition of the vertebral body and the resulting deviation of the spine. The change in spinal alignment correlates with restricted mobility and loss of quality of life, leading to the increased mortality rate following vertebral body fractures [Lyles 1993]. Furthermore, these parameters get progressively worse, with an increasing number of vertebrae affected and the resulting increase of the positional failure [Ross 1997]. It would be invaluable for those affected if this development could not only be stopped but even reversed with minimally invasive technology causing little stress to the patients.

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  1. Das Rückenzentrum Thun, Bahnhofstrasse 3, 3600, Thun, Switzerland

    PD Dr. med. Ulrich Berlemann & Dr. med. Othmar Schwarzenbach

  2. M. E. Müller Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics, Stauffacherstrasse 78, 3014, Bern, Switzerland

    Paul A. Hulme M.Sc.

  3. Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Murnau, Prof.-Küntscher-Straße 8, 82418, Murnau, Germany

    Dr. med. Michael Bierschneider & Dr. Hans Jaksche

  4. Orthopädische Universitätsklinik, Inselspital, 3010, Bern, Switzerland

    Dr. med. Bronek Boszczyk

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Berlemann, U., Hulme, P.A., Schwarzenbach, O., Bierschneider, M., Boszczyk, B., Jaksche, H. (2008). Results in kyphoplasty, risks and complications. In: Becker, S., Ogon, M. (eds) Balloon Kyphoplasty. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-74221-1_8

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