Kyphoplasty treatment of vertebral fractures: 2-year outcomes show sustained benefits.

Study Design: Retrospective single-center consecutive case series with two [corrected] year follow-up.

Objectives: To examine kyphoplasty [corrected] patients for long-lasting clinical and radiological outcomes [corrected] including effects on [corrected] vertebral body shape.

Summary Of Background Data: Kyphoplasty is the minimally-invasive [corrected] reduction and stabilization of vertebral body fractures [corrected] resulting in pain relief and improved physical function as described in our previously published one-year outcomes report [corrected]

Methods: Safety (complications and cement extravasation) was monitored in all 117 patients (151 fractures) treated through December 2001.

Decreases in the number and severity of morphometrically defined vertebral deformities after kyphoplasty.

Object: Vertebral body (VB) deformities have been associated with increased patient morbidity and mortality rates. The aim of this retrospective, consecutive single-center cohort study was to determine the effectiveness of kyphoplasty in reducing morphometrically defined VB deformity, including deformity shape types (wedge, biconcave, or crush) and grade (severity).

Methods: The authors identified 100 patients (70% women; mean age 76.

Balloon kyphoplasty: one-year outcomes in vertebral body height restoration, chronic pain, and activity levels.

Object: The authors assessed the safety of balloon kyphoplasty in the reduction and repair of osteopenic vertebral compression fractures and report functional outcomes (back pain and activity levels) in the first 96 patients (with 133 fractures) at their institution. Additionally they provide radiographic outcomes in the first 26 patients (41 fractures) treated and followed for 1 year.

Methods: The authors conducted a retrospective chart review of functional outcomes and evaluated radiographs obtained at 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year postoperatively.