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. 2022 Oct 11;58(10):1431.
doi: 10.3390/medicina58101431.

Vertebral Augmentation: Is It Time to Get Past the Pain? A Consensus Statement from the Sardinia Spine and Stroke Congress

Joshua A Hirsch  1 , Chiara Zini  2 , Giovanni Carlo Anselmetti  3 , Francisco Ardura  4 , Douglas Beall  5 , Matteo Bellini  6 , Allan Brook  7 , Alessandro Cianfoni  8 , Olivier Clerk-Lamalice  9 , Bassem Georgy  10 , Gianluca Maestretti  11 , Luigi Manfré  12 , Mario Muto  13 , Orlando Ortiz  14 , Luca Saba  15 , Alexis Kelekis  16 , Dimitrios K Filippiadis  16 , Stefano Marcia  17 , Salvatore Masala  18
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Vertebral Augmentation: Is It Time to Get Past the Pain? A Consensus Statement from the Sardinia Spine and Stroke Congress

Joshua A Hirsch et al. Medicina (Kaunas). .

Abstract

Vertebral augmentation has been used to treat painful vertebral compression fractures and metastatic lesions in millions of patients around the world. An international group of subject matter experts have considered the evidence, including but not limited to mortality. These considerations led them to ask whether it is appropriate to allow the subjective measure of pain to so dominate the clinical decision of whether to proceed with augmentation. The discussions that ensued are related below.

Keywords: ablation; augmentation; future; kyphosis; pain; target; treatment; vertebroplasty.

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The authors, other than below, declare no conflict of interest related to this work.

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