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Increased Pain After Kyphoplasty

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Osteoporosis is the most common cause of vertebral compression fracture. Pain from a compression fracture is multifaceted, incompletely understood, and debilitating. If conservative management fails, then injection therapies are offered. Vertebral augmentation therapy is the most immediate way to treat pain from a vertebral compression fracture. The exact mechanism of pain relief from this therapy is not completely understood. This intervention is not risk-free. Quite often pain persists or recurs soon after this treatment. The chapter reviews different etiologies that can cause persistent pain after the augmentation therapy; an algorithm to work up the patient in a step-by-step fashion is proposed, and treatment options are provided.

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  1. University of Chicago Hospitals, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Tariq Malik M.D.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Magdalena Anitescu

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Honorio T. Benzon

  3. Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA

    Mark S. Wallace

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Malik, T. (2018). Increased Pain After Kyphoplasty. In: Anitescu, M., Benzon, H., Wallace, M. (eds) Challenging Cases and Complication Management in Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60072-7_43

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