Spinal Compression Fracture Treatment

Minimally Invasive Kyphoplasty & Vertebroplasty Procedures in Katy

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Spinal Compression Fractures

Spinal compression fractures may result from bone weakening, osteoporosis, trauma, or cancer. Spinal compression fractures are the most common type of fractures related to osteoporosis, usually in the mid or lower spine.1 Patients who have an osteoporotic spinal fracture have a 19% chance of having another fracture in the next year.2 Spinal fractures can result in significant back pain, loss of mobility and independence, and depression.

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Kyphoplasty/Vertebroplasty

Most patients can be managed conservatively with pain control and physical therapy. However, for patients who have persistent pain and are unable to perform activities of daily living, vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty can be performed to provide symptomatic relief.

Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are minimally invasive outpatient vertebral augmentation procedures that help reduce pain associated with spinal compression fractures with an 80-90% clinical success rate.3-4 The procedures involve injection of bone cement through a hollow needle placed into the fractured bone from a small skin incision. Kyphoplasty goes a step further by first inflating a balloon into the bone to expand the compressed vertebra prior to filling the space with bone cement. Post-operative recovery time is 1-2 hours to allow hardening of the bone cement, and patients are discharged home the same day.

Dr. Rafiei has performed numerous vertebral augmentation procedures. He is an expert in diagnosing and carefully evaluating patients that could benefit from such treatment. To learn more about vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty, please contact Texas IR.

References:

  1. Genant HK, Cooper C, Poor G, et al. Interim report and recommendations of the World Health Organization Task-Force for Osteoporosis. Osteoporos Int 1999; 10(4):259.
  2. Lindsay R, Silverman SL, Cooper C, et al. Risk of new vertebral fracture in the year following a fracture. JAMA 2001; 285:320.
  3. Jensen ME, McGraw JK, Cardella JF, et al. Position statement on percutaneous vertebral augmentation: A consensus statement developed by the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, Society of Interventional Radiology, American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and American Society of Spine Radiology. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2007; 18:325-330.
  4. Fourney DR, Schomer DF, Nader R, et al. Percutaneous vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty for painful vertebral body fractures in cancer patients. J Neurosurg 2003; 98:21-30.