Dr. Buchbinder and colleagues performed a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the short-term efficacy of vertebroplasty compared with that of a sham procedure ...

Vertebroplasty has been in broad clinical use for two decades based largely on case series data. This broad use was called into question by the first two RCT's comparing vertebroplasty to sham ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 2007 study claimed that an estimated 1.7 million vertebral compression fractures occur every year in Europe ...

Background: Up to 25 percent of adults older than 50 years will have at least one vertebral fracture in their lifetime. Although many spontaneously heal, some will cause chronic pain and disability ...

An expensive and common procedure treating back pain from osteoporosis turns out to be ineffective, no better than a fake surgery, two major studies have found. Called vertebroplasty, the procedure ...

Vertebroplasty denotes a shorter term for percutaneous vertebroplasty, which is an image-guided therapeutic approach used for the treatment of painful or unstable vertebral body compression fractures ...

Vertebroplasty is a surgical procedure used to treat a compression fracture of the spinal vertebrae by restoring the strength and height of the collapsed bone. It is usually performed for patients ...

LUKE E. SEWALL, M.D. Interventional radiologists have been performing image-guided spinal procedures for many years. Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a newer technique in which a medical grade cement is ...

TAMPA, Fla. (March 15, 2010)—Patient selection is key for vertebroplasty—a minimally invasive treatment performed by interventional radiologists in individuals with painful osteoporotic vertebral ...

Vertebroplasty has become a common treatment for painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures, but there is limited evidence to support its use. We performed a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, ...

In this multicenter trial, we randomly assigned 131 patients who had one to three painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures to undergo either vertebroplasty or a simulated procedure without ...

Two randomized controlled trials have shown no significant differences in outcome between vertebroplasty and a sham procedure in patients with back pain and vertebral fracture. What conclusions can be ...