Short Term Follow Up of Patients with Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures Treated with Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
R. Balaraman
Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, Chennai – 600044, India.
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Abstract
Vertebral compression fractures are the most common osteoporotic fractures, 30-50% of all women develop vertebral compression fractures. In this study the mean age of 64 years with youngest case of age of 55 years and oldest case. 55 % of patients included in the study are female. One case had systemic hypertension, one case had Parkinsonism, and one case had Coronary Artery Disease. A significant reduction in analgesic intake was revealed. The patients without any analgesics increased from 0.5% (n=2) pre operative to 85.7% (n=30) at the six months follow-up (P less than 0.0001). pain score of ODS for immediate, 1month, 2 month, 3rd month and 6 month and found that(patient active measure) pam is reduced after immediate to 1 month till 6 month(p<0.05), and after 3 rd month to 6 month no difference in pam score was observed.
Keywords: Coronary heart diseases, vertebral compression fractures, analgesics, osteoporosis