MOST INNOVATIVE VCF TREATMENTS HIGHLIGHTED (Orthopedics This Week)
Not all vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) are the same. For instance, some have different vertebral height profiles.
In a peer-reviewed article published in the April edition of Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management (Volume 16/Number 2), Benvenue Medical, Inc.’s Kiva and Blazer systems were highlighted as being “among the most innovative experimental and commercial technologies available today,” according to an April 22, 2013 announcement by the company.
Treatment Limitations
“While most studies have consistently shown percutaneous vertebroplasty and vertebral augmentation to be safe, effective, and cost efficient, they do have some limitations, and emerging percutaneous technologies for VCF treatment are being developed to overcome some of them—namely to effectively increase vertebral height, control cement delivery, conserve the native cancellous bone structure, among others,” said Sean M. Tutton, M.D., FSIR, Professor of Radiology and Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and lead author of the review article. “One noteworthy and most widely published of these emerging VCF ...
