Bio-cement injection saves 100-year-old woman from falling and spinal injury

On May 24, Dr. Ho Hoai Hung, Head of the Department of Neurosurgery, Xuyen A Tay Ninh General Hospital, said that the old woman was admitted to the emergency room with severe back pain and difficulty walking after falling and hitting her back on the ground 3 days earlier.

Through clinical examination and paraclinical results, the doctors diagnosed the patient with L2 collapse, bone marrow edema, osteoporosis, and underlying hypertension. After consultation and comprehensive evaluation by specialists, the patient was quickly operated on to reconstruct the vertebral body using biological cement injection under the support of a C-arm X-ray machine.

The technique of creating a vertebral body by injecting biological cement through the pedicle is an advanced, minimally invasive surgical method, ensuring safety and high efficiency, helping patients quickly reduce pain, reduce treatment and recovery time, and improve quality of life. Especially in the elderly, the above surgical method helps avoid the risk of immobility in place with complications of pulmonary and urinary infections, pressure ulcers... and death.

Vertebral body reconstruction surgery by injecting biological cement also helps increase the height of the vertebral body, restore the physiological curve, and increase the stability of the spine.

The surgery took about 30 minutes. After 2 hours of surgery, the patient's back pain was reduced and his mobility improved, and his health gradually stabilized.

According to Dr. Hung, vertebral collapse and edema are common complications due to osteoporosis, after trauma, or other pathological lesions on the basis of osteoporosis, causing severe back pain and affecting the patient's quality of life. The older the person, the higher the incidence of the disease.

"Therefore, when experiencing sudden back pain, increased pain when moving, difficulty sitting up or changing positions, even if there is no injury, people should still go to medical facilities for examination and early treatment to help prevent serious complications," the doctor recommended.