Vertebral Augmentation: Is It Time to Get Past the Pain? A Consensus Statement from the Sardinia Spine and Stroke Congress

Vertebral augmentation has been used to treat painful vertebral compression fractures and metastatic lesions in millions of patients around the world. An international group of subject matter experts have considered the evidence, including but not limited to mortality. These considerations led them...

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Published in:Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) Lithuania), 2022-10, Vol.58 (10), p.1431
Main Authors: Hirsch, Joshua A., Zini, Chiara, Anselmetti, Giovanni Carlo, Ardura, Francisco, Beall, Douglas, Bellini, Matteo, Brook, Allan, Cianfoni, Alessandro, Clerk-Lamalice, Olivier, Georgy, Bassem, Maestretti, Gianluca, Manfré, Luigi, Muto, Mario, Ortiz, Orlando, Saba, Luca, Kelekis, Alexis, Filippiadis, Dimitrios K., Marcia, Stefano, Masala, Salvatore
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ablation
augmentation
Biomechanics
Communication
Fractures
kyphosis
Mortality
Natural history
Pain
Patients
Spine
Surgery
target
Vertebrae
vertebroplasty
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Summary:Vertebral augmentation has been used to treat painful vertebral compression fractures and metastatic lesions in millions of patients around the world. An international group of subject matter experts have considered the evidence, including but not limited to mortality. These considerations led them to ask whether it is appropriate to allow the subjective measure of pain to so dominate the clinical decision of whether to proceed with augmentation. The discussions that ensued are related below.
ISSN:1648-9144
1010-660X
1648-9144
DOI:10.3390/medicina58101431