What is it about?
High viscosity bone cement can significantly redce the rate of bone cement leak during vertebral augmentation in patients with osteoporotic fractures specially if the t-score (a tool to measure the severity of osteoporosis) is lower than 2. This will increase the safty of this procedure.
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Why is it important?
Cement leak is the most common problem in this trchnique, and with its reduction we can reach a good result with lower complication rates
Perspectives
This work is a step in the direction to increase the safty of a very common procedure
Mohamed Alhashash
Alexandria University
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This page is a summary of: Effects of Polymethylmethacrylate Cement Viscosity and Bone Porosity on Cement Leakage and New Vertebral Fractures After Percutaneous Vertebroplasty: A Prospective Study, Global Spine Journal, February 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2192568219830327.
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