Analysis of the curative effect of percutaneous kyphoplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture with intravertebral clefts

Kummell's disease is a delayed vertebral collapse fracture caused by posttraumatic osteonecrosis. It is a special type of osteoporotic vertebral fracture in the elderly. This study compares and analyzes the difference in the curative effect of 2 kinds of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCF) in the presence of fracture or not in the vertebral body, and provides a clinical reference for the application of percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP). This research is a kind of retrospective analysis from January 2012 to January 2015, PKP was used to treat 165 patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture. The patients were divided into 2 groups: Intravertebral clefts group (group A) and none-intravertebral clefts group in vertebral body (group B). Bone mineral density (BMD), bone cement injection (BCI), Visual analogue scale (VAS) score before and after surgery, anterior, central and posterior height of vertebral body (before and after surgery) and Cobb angle of injured vertebra (before and after surgery) were compared between the 2 groups. Surgeries for 165 patients in the 2 groups were successfully completed, and 226 fractured vertebrae were performed through bilateral puncture approach to strengthen the vertebral body. Intraoperative injection of bone cement (ml) was 4.25 + 1.29 (range: 2.6–7.8). There were statistically significant differences in bone cement injection quantity between the 2 groups (P < .05), and in bone cement leakage (P > .05) as well as the Postoperative VAS score (P < .05). However, There was no statistical difference in VAS score before surgery between the 2 groups (P > .05). The results indicated that the pain relief degree of OVCF patients without intravertebral clefts is better than that in the vertebral body. No statistical difference was found in Cobb Angle before and after surgery (P > .05), as well as the correction rate of the injured vertebrae before and after surgery (P > .05). There was no statistical difference in the degree of recovery of the anterior, middle and posterior margins of the injured vertebrae after surgery (P > .05). PKP treatment led to better degree of pain relief in OVCF patients without intravertebral clefts, and less bone cement was injected into the surgery.