The procedure of injecting medical cement into the vertebrae that has a reduced bone density and therefore the risk of fracture due to loading or fractured is called vertebroplasty.
Although the procedure is similar to vertebroplasty, it is the process of placing a balloon into the target vertebra first, inflating this balloon, then removing it and giving thicker medical cement to the created space.
Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are the most common patient group in which the vertebrae are weakened due to bone resorption, have the risk of fracture or fracture. These patients have severe back pain and the pain is not relieved by methods such as painkillers and corset. In these cases, the pain is relieved by strengthening the vertebra with medical cement.
Yes. Especially in vertebral tumors that cause bone resorption, very good results are obtained with this method.
Vertebroplasty procedure takes 20-30 minutes, kyphoplasty procedure takes 75 minutes.
No. These procedures can be performed in many patients with sedoanalgesia method and local anesthesia. However, when patients are uncomfortable, general anesthesia is rarely used.
In 95% of the patients, the pain completely disappears. In cases where the pain does not go away but decreases, both the intensity and duration of the pain decrease.
If the medical cement given during the procedure leaks into the channel where the spinal cord passes, loss of strength may develop in the legs after the operation. This risk is very low, and leakage is almost absent in the kyphoplasty method.