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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 95-B, Issue SUPP_17 | Pages 5 - 5
1 Apr 2013
Van Meirhaeghe J Bastian L Boonen S Ranstam J Tillman J Wardlaw D
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Purpose

To compare the efficacy and safety of balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) to non-surgical management (NSM) over 24 months in patients with acute painful fractures by clinical outcomes and vertebral body kyphosis correction and surgical parameters.

Material and Methods

Three hundred Adult patients with one to three VCF's were randomised within 3 months of the acute fracture; 149 to Balloon Kyphoplasty and 151 to Non-surgical management. Subjective QOL assessments and objective functional (Timed up and go [TUG]) and vertebral body kyphotic angulation (KA), were assessed over 24 months; we also report surgical parameters and adverse events temporally related to surgery (within 30-days).