Marshfield, WI - Percutaneous vertebroplasty for painful osteoporotic vertebral-compression fractures can relieve pain and improve quality of life (QoL) without increasing the incidence of ...

Dr. Buchbinder and colleagues performed a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the short-term efficacy of vertebroplasty compared with that of a sham procedure ...

Phase 1 first-in-human dose escalation study of cp-751,871, a specific monoclonal antibody against the insulin like growth factor 1 receptor No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is ...

Informed consent: Timely issues from the past. Factors motivating patients with advanced cancer to participate in phase II trials No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO ...

The Department of Health has asked the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to produce guidance on using percutaneous vertebroplasty and percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 2007 study claimed that an estimated 1.7 million vertebral compression fractures occur every year in Europe ...

Vertebroplasty denotes a shorter term for percutaneous vertebroplasty, which is an image-guided therapeutic approach used for the treatment of painful or unstable vertebral body compression fractures ...

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 ...

New for 2015, the CPT codes for vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty were revised to include radiology supervision and interpretation. With the revision the previously existing Local Coverage Determinations ...

Vertebral fracture refers to a break in any of the bones (vertebrae) of the spinal column. Vertebral compression fractures usually occur when the front of the vertebral body collapses, and may be ...