Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00203554
Percutaneous Vertebroplasty Versus Conservative Treatment of Pain
Percutaneous Vertebroplasty Versus Conservative Treatment of Pain: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Study of Osteoporotic Fractures in the Spine
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 27 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of vertebroplasty with that of traditional medical treatment in the treatment of painful vertebral fractures in osteoporotic patients.
Detailed description
In vertebroplasty a bone cement is injected in one or more fractured vertebra. The indication is pain that needs high doses of analgesics. The cement is a well known product called poly methyl metacrylate (PMMA) normally used fixate joint prosthesis. Vertebroplasty is done in local anaesthesia. The treatment was introduced in 1984 in France and today thousands of patients have been treated worldwide, but so far no randomized controlled trials have been published.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GENETIC | Poly methylmetacrylate, PMMA |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2004-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2008-01-01
- Completion
- 2008-01-01
- First posted
- 2005-09-20
- Last updated
- 2008-03-27
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Denmark
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