NCT00994032

Quality of Life After Vertebroplasty Versus Conservative Treatment in Patients With Painful Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures

Analysis of the Impact in the Quality of Life of Patients With Pain Secondary to Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures Receiving Conservative Treatment Versus Percutaneous Vertebroplasty

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Clinic of Barcelona · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether percutaneous vertebroplasty is able to improve long-term quality of life in patients with pain secondary to osteoporotic vertebral fractures, compared to conventional medical treatment.

Detailed description

Osteoporotic vertebral fractures are associated with pain and severe disability in a high percentage of patients. Vertebroplasty has become the treatment of choice to alleviate pain in those patients who have not responded to medical treatment.Although several case series and non-randomized studies have shown the effectiveness of vertebroplasty in alleviating pain secondary to osteoporotic vertebral fractures, the long-term effect of this treatment has not been compared to standard medical treatment in a randomized study. In our study we have analyzed the long-term effect of vertebroplasty in terms of quality of life in patients with painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures, randomizing them into two arms: percutaneous vertebroplasty or conventional medical treatment.

Conditions

• Spinal Fracture
• Osteoporosis
• Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	percutaneous injection of cement into the vertebral body	percutaneous injection of cement into the vertebral body
OTHER	Medical treatment	standard antalgic medical treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-03-01
• Primary completion: 2011-06-01
• Completion: 2011-06-01
• First posted: 2009-10-14
• Last updated: 2017-02-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain