incur high health care costs. Due to the evident demographical changes their incidence is expected to grow, increasing the importance of reliable and efficient interdiscipllinary treatment modalities
and use of analgesic agents in categorial scales 24h pre- and postinterventionally and in constant intervals up to 12 months, constantly acquired by the same interviewer * Vertebroplasties of 3 hospitals between 2002 and 2008
" female/male : 772/416 " 75% with osteoporosis, 16% with tumorous VBF and 9% with traumatic VBF. " Most common vertebral body to fracture: lumbar vertebra level 1 thoracic vertebra level 8
Tumour 0 0,5000 1,0000 1,5000 2,0000 Mittelwert - QOL, 1T v A Mittelwert - QOL, 1T n A Mittelwert - QOL, 7T n A Mittelwert - QOL, 3M n A Mittelwert - QOL, 6M n A Mittelwert - QOL, 1J n A 0 0,7500 1,5000 2,2500 3,0000 Mittelwert - QOL, 1T v A Mittelwert - QOL, 1T n A Mittelwert - QOL, 7T n A Mittelwert - QOL, 3M n A Mittelwert - QOL, 6M n A Mittelwert - QOL, 1J n A Amount of analagetics up to 12 months
Tumour 0 0,5000 1,0000 1,5000 2,0000 Mittelwert - QOL, 1T v M Mittelwert - QOL, 1T n M Mittelwert - QOL, 7T n M Mittelwert - QOL, 3M n M Mittelwert - QOL, 6M n M Mittelwert - QOL, 1J n M 0 0,5000 1,0000 1,5000 2,0000 Mittelwert - QOL, 1T v M Mittelwert - QOL, 1T n M Mittelwert - QOL, 7T n M Mittelwert - QOL, 3M n M Mittelwert - QOL, 6M n M Mittelwert - QOL, 1J n M Mobility up to 12 months
neurological symptoms) " 15% cement dislocation in paravertebral venous plexus (180 asymptomatic cases) " Medial pedicl e wall: never cross it!! with needle " dorsal vertebral quarter: never cross!! with cement " fluoroscopy : Stop as soon as you see cement in veins or extravertebral!! " consistency of cement: inject late!!! Tooth paste like
" Positiva: " Biggest cohort in Germany " Strict follow-up " Few studies with evaluation of all three parameters throughout 12 months " low rate of complications
significantly in all 3 groups for the whole follow-up " viscosity amount of cement leakage-rate " highly significant clinical improvement 1 day postinterventionally and increasing up to 6 months " Publication Dt.Ärzteblatt 2011