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Filter by:In spine surgery, it is important to try to minimize bleeding. In particular, spine surgery often involves inserting hardware into bone, and/or removing bone in the spine. Because the bone in the spine contains blood vessels, there can often be bleeding from the bone itself that is difficult to stop completely. One way to stop bone bleeding is through the use of wax-like materials, which plug the bleeding bone and act as a physical barrier to stop bleeding. One example is Ostene bone hemostasis material, which has the advantage of being "water soluble", meaning it will dissolve naturally over time. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how well Ostene does at decreasing bleeding, by using a recognized scale called the validated intraoperative bleeding severity scale, abbreviated as "VIBe". In this study, the investigators will record the bleeding severity throughout multiple time points in surgery using this scale, and then the investigators will compare the measurements to patients in the past who did not receive Ostene. Overall, this research will help measure how well Ostene decreases bleeding.
This is a retrospective and prospective observational, multi center study of subjects who have undergone or will undergo vertebral body replacement surgery in the cervical or thoracolumbar spine utilizing Stryker Capri Corpectomy Cages. The primary study hypothesis to determine effectiveness, is that the mean improvement in NDI (cervical) or ODI (thoracolumbar) score from baseline meets or exceeds 15-points at 24 months for Stryker Capri Corpectomy Cage systems individually.
The aim of this retrospective study is to show that kyphoplasty is a reliable technique in the treatment of certain traumatic vertebral fractures. Patients will be selected from medical records archived at the Neuroradiology Department of Dijon CHU. An information sheet and questionnaire will be sent to patients together with a letter to ask them to have a radiographic examination. The radiographic images will be interpreted by two independent experts to evaluate the angle pf vertebral kyphosis.