Medicina (Oct 2022)
Vertebral Augmentation: Is It Time to Get Past the Pain? A Consensus Statement from the Sardinia Spine and Stroke Congress
- Joshua A. Hirsch,
- Chiara Zini,
- Giovanni Carlo Anselmetti,
- Francisco Ardura,
- Douglas Beall,
- Matteo Bellini,
- Allan Brook,
- Alessandro Cianfoni,
- Olivier Clerk-Lamalice,
- Bassem Georgy,
- Gianluca Maestretti,
- Luigi Manfré,
- Mario Muto,
- Orlando Ortiz,
- Luca Saba,
- Alexis Kelekis,
- Dimitrios K. Filippiadis,
- Stefano Marcia,
- Salvatore Masala
Affiliations
- Joshua A. Hirsch
- Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Chiara Zini
- UOC Radiologia Firenze 1, USL Toscana Centro, 50100 Firenze, Italy
- Giovanni Carlo Anselmetti
- Interventional Radiology Unit, European Institute of Oncology IEO Milan, 10060 Milan, Italy
- Francisco Ardura
- Spine Unit, Orthopedics and Traumatology Department, University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain
- Douglas Beall
- Comprehensive Specialty Care, Oklahoma City, OK 7301, USA
- Matteo Bellini
- UOC Neuroimmagini, Neuroradiologia Clinica e Funzionale Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e Motorie Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, 53100 Siena, Italy
- Allan Brook
- Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467-2490, USA
- Alessandro Cianfoni
- Department of Interventional and Diagnostic Neuroradiology, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, EOC, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland
- Olivier Clerk-Lamalice
- Beam Interventional & Diagnostic Imaging, Department of Interventional Pain Management, Calgary, AB 2500, Canada
- Bassem Georgy
- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, CA 92025, USA
- Gianluca Maestretti
- Department of Orthopaedic Sugery and Traumatology, HFR Hôpital Cantonal, Unibversity of Fribourg, CH-1708 Fribourg, Switzerland
- Luigi Manfré
- Minimal Invasive Spine Department of Neurosurgery, Istituto Oncologico del Mediterraneo IOM, 95029 Viagrande, Italy
- Mario Muto
- UOC Neuroradiologia AO Cardarelli Naples Italy, 80131 Napoli, Italy
- Orlando Ortiz
- Department of Radiology, Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 11501, USA
- Luca Saba
- Department of Radiology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria (A.O.U.) di Cagliari, 09100 Cagliari, Italy
- Alexis Kelekis
- 2nd Department of Radiology, University General Hospital “ATTIKON” Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece
- Dimitrios K. Filippiadis
- 2nd Department of Radiology, University General Hospital “ATTIKON” Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece
- Stefano Marcia
- UOC Radiologia SS, Trinità Hospital, 09121 Cagliari, Italy
- Salvatore Masala
- Diagnostica per Immagini e Radiologia Interventistica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, 00148 Roma, Italy
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58101431
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 58,
no. 10
p. 1431
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.
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