Repeat Vertebroplasty for Unrelieved Pain at Previously Treated Vertebral Levels With Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures

Abstract

The outcomes of this series suggest that repeat PV is effective at the same vertebral levels in patients without pain-relief who underwent previous PV. Absent or inadequate filling of cement in the unstable fractured areas of the vertebral body may be responsible for the unrelieved pain after the initial PV.