PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - G. Saliou
AU  - D.R. Rutgers
AU  - E.M. Kocheida
AU  - G. Langman
AU  - A. Meurin
AU  - H. Deramond
AU  - P. Lehmann
TI  - Balloon-Related Complications and Technical Failures in Kyphoplasty for Vertebral Fractures
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A1783
DP  - 2010 Jan 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 175--179
VI  - 31
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/31/1/175.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/31/1/175.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2010 Jan 01; 31
AB  - BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Our aim was to describe the immediate or early complications and technical failures occurring during balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) procedures and attributable to balloon inflation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective review of all consecutive kyphoplasty procedures performed in our institution from May 2005 to October 2006. Fifty-one patients were treated by BKP at 75 spinal levels, and 137 vertebroplasties were performed as well. RESULTS: Several recurrent complications or procedural failures were observed during BKP: cortical or endplate fracture by balloon expansion (4 vertebrae), partial vertebral re-collapse after deflation (4 vertebrae), balloon rupture during inflation (5 vertebrae), and transient hyperalgia after the procedure (11 patients, 27.5%). CONCLUSIONS: Several symptomatic or asymptomatic complications and technical failures can occur during BKP. Some modifications of the usual kyphoplasty technique may decrease the frequency of these complications.