analyzed data from 858,978 Medicare patients who had either kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty for a vertebral compression fracture. At four year follow-up, after controlling for 12 comorbid conditions ...

Vertebroplasty procedures were defined as overused for patients with spinal fracture ... compression or compression of the nerve, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, tumor, [or] fracture," he told ...

A study in France has found that pamidronate (a bone antiresorptive agent) provides rapid and sustained pain relief in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (VCFs), although ...