Status:

COMPLETED

VERTOS-II. Percutaneous Vertebroplasty Versus Conservative Therapy

Lead Sponsor:

Clinical Research Office Imaging Division

Collaborating Sponsors:

ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development

Conditions:

Osteoporosis

Back Pain

Eligibility:

All Genders

50+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a new procedure for treating painful osteoporotic compression fractures of the spine. Five-thousand out of 12.000 patients (16.000 vertebral fractures/year in the Nether...

Detailed Description

Design: This will be a multicenter (6 centers), prospective, randomized, intervention study. Eligible patients will be randomized for percutaneous vertebroplasty or analgesics. Study population:Two ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion criteria:
  • age: 50 and older
  • vertebral fracture: 15-85% height loss
  • level: thoracic vertebral body 5 (Th 5) or lower
  • osteopenia (T-score \< -1 SD)
  • back pain for at least no longer than 6 weeks
  • edema in the vertebrae on MR imaging
  • Exclusion criteria:
  • complete loss of vertebral body height
  • fracture through or destruction of the posterior vertebral wall
  • pressure of bone fragments on the spinal cord
  • osteomyelitis or spondylodiscitis
  • vertebral column neoplasms
  • uncorrectable coagulation disorder
  • medical conditions that would make the patient ineligible for emergency decompressive surgery should it be necessary to treat a complication of the procedure

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    February 1 2006

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    June 1 2010

    Estimated Enrollment :

    200 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00232466

    Start Date

    February 1 2006

    End Date

    June 1 2010

    Last Update

    February 15 2018

    Active Locations (6)

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    1

    AZ St. Lucas Ziekenhuis

    Ghent, Belgium, 9000

    2

    Diakonessenhuis

    Utrecht/Zeist/Doorn, Utrecht, Netherlands, 3508 TG

    3

    Albert Schweizer Ziekenhuis

    Dordrecht, Netherlands, 3300 AK

    4

    Catharina-Ziekenhuis

    Eindhoven, Netherlands, 5623 EJ