Best Hospitals for Vertebroplasty Surgery in Hyderabad, India

International Accreditation

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Specialization

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Capacity and Track Record

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Clinical Overview

• Vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) represent one of the most prevalent skeletal consequences of osteoporosis, affecting an estimated 1.4 million people worldwide annually, though the condition also arises from osteolytic spinal metastases (most commonly from breast, prostate, lung, renal cell, and multiple myeloma primaries), vertebral haemangiomas, and traumatic injury in younger patients.
• Biomechanically, a VCF results in loss of vertebral body height — often greater than 15–20% — leading to progressive kyphotic deformity, altered spinal load distribution, compromise of adjacent disc levels, restrictive pulmonary dysfunction from thoracic cage compression, and debilitating axial back pain that severely limits mobility and quality of life.
• Neurological deficits, while less common in pure osteoporotic VCF, can emerge when retropulsed bony fragments encroach upon the spinal canal, a finding that must be systematically excluded before vertebroplasty candidacy is confirmed.

Who is a Candidate?

Treatment Options & Approaches

• STANDARD VERTEBROPLASTY (Percutaneous Fluoroscopy-Guided): The foundational technique involves placement of an 11–13-gauge bevelled trocar needle via a transpedicular or extrapedicular (parapedicular/intercostovertebral) approach under biplanar fluoroscopic guidance, with the patient in prone position under local anaesthesia and conscious sedation (intravenous midazolam and fentanyl).
• Once the needle tip is confirmed in the anterior third of the vertebral body, low-viscosity PMMA cement mixed with barium sulphate (for radio-opacity) is slowly injected in 0.5–1.0 mL aliquots under continuous real-time fluoroscopic monitoring until adequate vertebral body fill is achieved (typically 2–6 mL per level) or cement approaches the posterior cortex.
• The procedure is most commonly performed at 1–3 levels per session.

Recovery

• PRE-PROCEDURE PHASE (Days −14 to −1):