This week we are going to discuss something which is quite common, yet it occurs for a variety of reasons—the vertebral compression fracture (VCF). Vertebral compression fractures occur when the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Romosozumab is associated with marked reductions in all vertebral fracture grades, and these are sustained after ...

In the current study by Kallmes and colleagues, 131 patients with 1-3 painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures were randomized to receive either vertebroplasty (using polymethylmethacrylate) or sham ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with postmenopausal osteoporosis who received the monoclonal antibody romosozumab were less likely to ...

The researchers found that 6.3, 6.6, and 11.1% of the zoledronate-zoledronate, zoledronate-placebo, and placebo-placebo groups, respectively, had a new morphometric fracture at follow-up. HealthDay ...

Early findings from the AI-enabled Detection of OsteoPorosis for Treatment (ADOPT) study, which uses a Nanox.AI artificial intelligence solution, HealthVCF, to review routine CT scans, have identified ...

The prevalence of vertebral fractures is high among men with prostate cancer at the start of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), according to findings from a cross-sectional, real-world study in the ...

In a small study, 34% of dialysis patients had vertebral fractures, and patients in the highest tertile of parathyroid hormone level had a nearly 3-fold increased risk of these fractures compared with ...

It’s thought hidden spine fractures affect 2.2 million people – but the signs of a fracture aren’t always easy to spot. This is why the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has ...

Around a quarter of European women aged over 75 years are thought to have experienced vertebral fracture; however, around two-thirds of vertebral fractures are not diagnosed immediately, which can ...

This article reviews the implications of documentation of vertebral fracture for subsequent fracture risk and its role as an adjunct to bone-density assessment. Strategies for the management of ...