Osteoporosis.
2013 Dec;11(3):136-139.
Asymptomatic Pulmonary Embolus Following Percutaneous Kyphoplasty: A Case Report
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- 1Department of Orthopeadic Surgery, St. Carollo Hospital, Suncheon, Korea.
- 2Department of Orthopeadic Surgery, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University Hospital, Iksan, Korea. oschae68@hanmail.net
- 3Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University Hospital, Iksan, Korea.
Abstract
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a relatively recent procedure in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures. Bone cement embolism is a severe and potentially life-threatening complication of percutaneous vertebroplasty with cement. The risk for cement pulmonary embolism ranges between 3.5 and 23% for osteoporotic fractures. Bone cement leakage may be usually more frequent with vertebroplasty than with kyphoplasty. We experienced a 69-year-old female patient of an asymptomatic pulmonary embolus (length 8 cm) after kyphoplasty for an osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture
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