Specifications

Product Specification of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty:

It is used to treat painful compression fractures caused by osteoporosis in the spine. It is to form a passage to restore the height of vertebrae, and to form a cavity for filling bone cement.

The operation of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty has the following features and benefits:

1. Minimally invasive approach to minimize the injury and bleeding;

2. Easy to operate, less operation time;

3. Regional anesthesia is applicable, lower risk, less complications;

4. Pain relief;

5. Reinforce the compressed vertebral body and help the patient to move;

6. Restore the height of fractured vertebrae.

Indications of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty:

1. Vertebral compression fractures caused by osteoporosis;

2. Vertebral compression caused by osteolytic pathology. Eg, vertebral hemangioma;

3. Sclerotin damage caused by malignant bone tumor with fracutre risk.

Contraindications of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty:

1. Patients with coagulation disorders;

2. Patients with back vertebral margin fracture and damage;

3. Patients with severe cardiopulmonary diseases;

4. Patients with cachexia of advanced tumor, who are intolerable to operation;

5. Patients predisposed to hemorrbage;

6. Patients with osteomyelitis, or existing systemic infection, or patients with inflammation at the injection site;

7. Bone protruded backwards, or tumor lumps in the rear side, which may involve the vertebral canal.