Morbidity and mortality after vertebral fractures: Comparison of vertebral augmentation and nonoperative management in the medicare population

Spine

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 1228-1241

  Edidin, Avram Allan ^a   Ong, Kevin L ^b   Lau, Edmund ^b   Kurtz, Steven M ^b  

^a MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Kyphoplasty; Morbidity; Mortality; Vertebral compression fracture; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; KYPHOPLASTY; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION; VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPLICATION; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SPINAL FRACTURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

AGED; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KYPHOPLASTY; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PNEUMONIA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SPINAL FRACTURES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84942636612     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000992     Document Type: Article

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