You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: An almost 90-year-old friend has osteoporosis. In January, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Patients with vertebral compression fractures who underwent kyphoplasty experienced higher rates of ...

Kyphoplasty in the Treatment of Osteolytic Vertebral Compression Fractures as a Result of Multiple Myeloma. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to ...

Oct. 24, 2003 -- Kyphoplasty improves physical function, reduces pain, and may correct kyphotic deformity in patients with vertebral compression fractures, according to the results of a prospective ...

Baseline to 1 month change in short-form-36 (SF-36) PCS scale by treatment group Study powered to detect 0.5 SD for 1-month difference; 80% power with two-sided of 5% (75 participants per group).

A kyphoplasty is a procedure used to treat certain fractures in vertebrae, or bones of the spine. The fractures treated by kyphoplasty are compression fractures. These fractures usually occur in bones ...

The following article is written by Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, president of Ellis Medical Consulting. Kyphoplasty procedures are a modification of percutaneous vertebroplasty procedures and are ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Dear Dr. Roach • An almost 90-year-old friend has osteoporosis. In January, she collapsed while walking home. Now, five months ...

PURPOSE: We prospectively evaluated the safety and efficacy of kyphoplasty in the treatment of osteolytic vertebral compression fractures resulting from multiple myeloma. The principle symptoms in ...

Vertebral compression fractures are one of the most common types of osteoporotic fracture. Osteoporotic fractures are common in the elderly and particularly in postmenopausal women, but they can also ...

Current evidence on the safety and efficacy of balloon kyphoplasty for vertebral compression fractures appears adequate to support the use of this procedure provided that normal arrangements are in ...