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Jun 11th, 2022 - Osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures are treated conservatively or in selected cases with percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV). The purpose of this retrospective analysis is to determine predictive factors for a high visual analogue scale (VAS...

Jun 7th, 2022 - Osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCF) accompanying huge spinal epidural hematoma (SEH) is fairly rare. The aim of this report is to investigate the management strategies and treatment outcomes of OVCF accompanying SEH. An 89-year-old ...

Jun 3rd, 2022 - Management of patients after lumbar spine surgery or interventional radiology can be complex, and postoperative imaging patterns are often poorly understood by nonspecialized radiologists. This article focuses on postoperative imaging features of ...

Jun 2nd, 2022 - Osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs) are acknowledged to be common fractures, especially in the elderly population. Minimally invasive percutaneous methods of treatment for these fractures such as kyphoplasty (KP) and vertebroplast...

Apr 30th, 2022 - Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM) is a rare type of malignant B-cell lymphoma. The main feature of WM is elevated serum monoclonal immunoglobulin M, similar to multiple myeloma (MM). Unlike in MM, the rarity of destructive bone lesions in WM ha...

Jun 18th, 2014 - This is an updated review of management of vertebral compression fracture for both benign osteoporotic and malignant causes. Vertebral compression fracture radiologic imaging evaluation is discussed. A literature review is provided of current indi...

Nov 19th, 2013 - Quality improvement guidelines for percutaneous vertebroplasty.|2013|Baerlocher MO,Saad WE,Dariushnia S,Barr JD,McGraw JK,|standards,diagnostic imaging,therapy,standards,standards,adverse effects,standards,standards,diagnostic imaging,therapy,adve...

Apr 27th, 2022 - The aim of the study is to compare the preoperative anxiety of patients hospitalized for a percutaneous vertebroplasty, depending on whether or not they are managed in an RAAC program.

Mar 16th, 2022 - OBJECTIVES: Primary To determine the efficacy of stereotactic body radiotherapy in reducing pain at 3 months in patients with localized spinal metastasis. Secondary To determine the duration of pain response at the treated site(s) scored as the ti...

Oct 8th, 2021 - Traumatic thoracolumbar vertebral fractures are frequently treated with posterior fixation (PF) and vertebral augmentation, but sometimes vertebral augmentation is not performed, being judged too risky under fluoroscopic guidance alone. An adjuvan...

Nov 6th, 2020 - Background The standard care in patients with a painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is conservative therapy. Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV), a minimally invasive technique, is a relatively new treatment option. Recent rando...

Jul 7th, 2020 - In this study, 58 patients with a vertebral fracture no more than 10 days old (with a max of 15 days old) will be enrolled. Treatment will be randomly allocated in 2 groups: Early percutaneous vertebroplasty (EPV group) or standard conservative tr...

Dec 5th, 2020 - Diana Wortham Maultsby, RN Nurses involved in cancer care should be up to date on the growing number of applications for interventional radiology in oncology, since some centers may call upon them to work within the quickly developing area, a sp...

Jan 25th, 2019 - "Routine use of vertebral augmentation for pain relief after vertebral fracture is not supported by current data," a new report commissioned by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) concludes. The report, with lead author Pete...

Sep 24th, 2018 - A new meta-analysis shows little evidence to support use of invasive interventional procedures for chronic knee and low back pain — although the analysis has several limitations that preclude firm conclusions, researchers say. In 2014, Americans s...

Sep 24th, 2018 - A new meta-analysis shows little evidence to support use of invasive interventional procedures for chronic knee and low back pain — although the analysis has several limitations that preclude firm conclusions, researchers say. In 2014, Americans s...

May 10th, 2018 - Older patients with one to three recent painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures who had vertebroplasty or a sham procedure reported similar pain relief over the following year.   "These results do not support percutaneous vertebroplasty as standa...