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28 March 2022: Clinical Research  

A Retrospective Study to Evaluate the Effect of Dynamic Fracture Mobility on Cement Leakage in Percutaneous Vertebroplasty and Percutaneous Kyphoplasty in 286 Patients with Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures

Hu Ren1AEF, Tao Feng1AEF*, Jianhui Cao1BC, Yaning Hu1BCD, Dahai Yu1CD, Shuo Pan1BCD, Guangqing Yao1EF

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.935080

Med Sci Monit 2022; 28:e935080

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Cement leakage is the most common complication following percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) and percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs). Dynamic fracture mobility was determined by comparing preoperative standing lateral radiographs with intraoperative prone lateral radiographs. This retrospective study from a single center aimed to evaluate the effect of dynamic fracture mobility on cement leakage in PVP and PKP in 286 patients with OVCFs.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Records of patients who underwent PVP or PKP in our department between January 2016 and December 2019 were retrospectively analyzed, showing that 156 patients received PVP and 130 patients received PKP. Variables that were significantly related to presence of cement leakage in the univariate analysis were subsequently included in a multivariate logistic regression analysis for determining the independent risk factors for cement leakage.

RESULTS: The univariate analysis showed that dynamic fracture mobility (P<0.001), operative approach (P=0.026), peripheral vertebrae wall damage (P<0.001), intravertebral cleft (P<0.001), and cement volume injected (P<0.001) were correlated with cement leakage. Factors that showed differences by univariate analysis underwent multivariate logistic regression analysis, showing that peripheral vertebrae wall damage (OR=11.774,95% CI 4.384-31.619, P=0.000), dynamic fracture mobility (OR=5.884, 95% CI 2.295-15.087, P=0.000), operative approach (OR=3.143, 95% CI 1.136-8.698, P=0.027), and cement volume injected (OR=1.486, 95% CI 1.119-1.973, P=0.006) were independent risk factors for postoperative cement leakage.

CONCLUSIONS: This retrospective study showed that dynamic fracture mobility, peripheral vertebrae wall damage, operative approach, and cement volume injected were risk factors for cement leak following PVP and PKP.

Keywords: Bone Cements, Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures, Osteoporotic Fractures, Risk Factors, Fractures, Compression, Humans, kyphoplasty, Spinal Fractures, vertebroplasty

Background

With the increasing number of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs), the quality of life of the elderly has been seriously affected [1]. Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) and percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) both involve injecting bone cement into the fractured vertebra. This procedure not only stabilizes the fractured vertebra, but also significantly relieves pain [2]. Although both techniques have shown good results for OVCFs, complications associated with surgery are inevitable. Among these complications, cement leakage is the most common [3]. Although it was asymptomatic in most cases, cement leakage can cause severe consequences [4,5]; therefore, it is very important to identify the risk factors of cement leakage before surgery. Many studies have attempted to reveal the risk factors of cement leakage, including cement viscosity, cement volume, intravertebral cleft, the degree of compression of the fractured vertebrae, the type of the fractured vertebrae, and operative approach [6–9].

The previously unrecognized occurrence of “dynamic fracture mobility” in many OVCFs was first demonstrated by McKiernan et al in 2003 [10]. Spontaneous reduction in deformity may occur when the patient is placed in prone position. Dynamic fracture mobility was determined by comparing preoperative standing lateral radiographs with intraoperative prone lateral radiographs [11]. Many authors have reported that the spinal deformity correction achieved with percutaneous vertebral augmentation techniques is greatly influenced by the presence of dynamic fracture mobility, and it was reported to be an important parameter in the evaluation of vertebral fractures [11–14]. Unfortunately, there is no research on the effect of dynamic fracture mobility on cement leakage. Therefore, this retrospective study from a single center aimed to evaluate the effect of dynamic fracture mobility on cement leakage in PVP and PKP in 286 patients with OVCFs. Our results may help to in making detailed plans for a unique OVCF and may reduce surgical complications.

Material and Methods

STUDY DESIGN:

Records of patients who underwent PVP or PKP in our department between January 2016 and December 2019 were retrospectively analyzed. To reduce confounding factors caused by the inclusion of multiple OVCFs patients, only patients with a single-level acute OVCF were selected in this study. This study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shijiazhuang People’s Hospital (no. 2021-006) before acquiring and analyzing patients’ information.

INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

Inclusion criteria were: (1) persistent back pain resulting from a single-level OVCF that was not responsive to nonoperative treatment; (2) fracture duration ≤6 weeks; (3) treated with PVP or PKP; (4) complete imaging and surgical data were available. Exclusion criteria were: (1) fracture duration >6 weeks; (2) fracture not caused by OVCFs; (3) presence of a previously treated OVCF; (4) patients with radicular symptoms.

PATIENTS:

Finally, 286 patients (232 females, 54 males, mean age 72.87 years, range 51–89 years) were included in our study: 156 (54.5%) patients received PVP and 130 (45.5%) patients received PKP. Among the 286 vertebrae studied, 86 (30.1%) involved the thoracic spine, 174 (60.8%) involved the thoracolumbar spine, and 26 (9.1%) involved the lumbar spine.

SURGICAL TECHNIQUE:

All operations were performed by experienced spinal surgeons. Local anesthesia was used during all procedures. Patients were monitored and placed in prone position using Cawley’s technique [15]. Supports were positioned under the iliac crests and either side of the upper thorax. The arms were abducted. Two columns of pillows were positioned under the legs so that the hips were maximally extended. The table could be flexed as needed, and this position may help to correct the fracture deformity to some extent. While in this position, a prone position radiograph centered on the fractured vertebra was obtained for each patient.

Then, the standard PVP or PKP surgery was performed by the bilateral transpedicular approach under lateral and anteroposterior fluoroscopic guidance. During PKP, the inflatable bone tamp (IBT, Changzhou Bai-long Medical Utensils Co., Changzhou, China) was inflated until the fracture was reduced, the IBT contacted a vertebral body end-plate, the balloon volume reached maximum, or it was felt unsafe to continue. The IBT was then removed and polymethylmethacrylate bone cement (PMMA, Osteopal V, Heraeus Medical GmbH, Wehrheim, Germany) was injected at the “toothpaste-like” stage after being mixed to reduce cement leakage. When cement was evenly distributed in the fractured vertebra or when leakage was observed, the cement injection was discontinued.

After the surgery, the patient was transferred to the ward for further monitoring. The degree of focal back pain was assessed by visual analog scale (VAS) (where 0 represents no pain and 10 represents the worst pain) before surgery, 3 days after surgery, and at last follow-up.

RADIOGRAPHIC EVALUATION:

All patients underwent preoperative standing anterior-posterior and lateral radiographs centered on the fractured vertebral body. The maximum compression point of the preoperative vertebral body was selected for vertebral height measurement [16,17]. Assessing the preoperative vertebral body compression ratios according to the equation, preoperative vertebral compression ratio=preoperative vertebral body height/estimated original vertebral body height. The mean value of the vertical height of the vertebrae above and below the fractured vertebra was used to estimate original vertebral body height. If the adjacent vertebrae were fractured previously, the nearest intact vertebra was used to make an estimation. Kyphotic angle was measured from the superior and inferior end-plates of the fractured vertebrae [18]. Dynamic fracture mobility was considered to be present when any measurable change in vertebral body kyphotic angle or vertebral body height occurred between preoperative standing lateral radiographs and intraoperative prone position radiographs [11] (Figure 1A, 1B). Fractures with no measurable changes were considered fixed.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to evaluate for persistent edema in the fractured vertebrae and to exclude other causes besides OVCFs. An intravertebral cleft was defined as an intravertebral, abnormal, well-demarcated, linear or cystic hypointensity similar to air on preoperative radiography or T1-weighted MRI sequences, and an abnormal, well-demarcated, linear or cystic hyperintensity was defined as being similar to cerebrospinal fluid on T2-weighted MRI sequences or STIR sequences [19] (Figure 1C, 1D). Peripheral vertebrae wall damage was defined as the presence of a fracture line and destruction of cortical bone at the vertebral wall or end-plate by preoperative computed tomography (CT) and MRI [20] (Figure 1E). Bone mineral density (BMD) of lumbar vertebrae was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) prior to surgery.

Patients were divided into a leakage group and a no leakage group according to postoperative radiographs and CT examination. Cement leakage was defined as the presence of any extravertebral cement (Figure 1F).

POTENTIAL RISK FACTORS:

To provide a more comprehensive prediction model for cement leakage, all possible correlation factors were collected, including: age, sex, fracture duration, bone mineral density, dynamic fracture mobility, operative approach, spinal segment of fracture, peripheral vertebrae wall damage, intravertebral cleft, cement volume injected, preoperative vertebral height, and preoperative kyphotic angle.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS:

Statistical software SPSS (version 13.0, SPSS, Inc, Chicago, IL) was used for the statistical analysis. Continuous variables were expressed as mean±standard deviation and categorical variables were expressed as the number of cases. Univariate analysis was carried out with t test for continuous variables and χ2 test for categorical variables between 2 groups. Variables that were significantly related to presence of cement leakage in the univariate analysis were subsequently included in a multivariate logistic regression analysis to determine the independent risk factors for cement leakage. During all the above analyses, P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDY PATIENTS:

Almost all of the patients had rapid and significant improvement in back pain following surgery. VAS was from 7.56±1.43 preoperatively to 2.35±1.77 at 3 days after surgery, and 2.58±1.73 at last follow-up (P<0.05). Cement leakage was observed in 46 of 286 vertebrae and the incidence was 16.08%. All of the cement leakage was asymptomatic and no further treatment was needed.

UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS BETWEEN 2 GROUPS:

The univariate analysis showed that dynamic fracture mobility (P<0.001), operative approach (P=0.026), peripheral vertebrae wall damage (P<0.001), intravertebral cleft (P<0.001), and cement volume injected (P<0.001) were correlated with cement leakage. The presence of peripheral vertebrae wall damage, dynamic fracture mobility, and intravertebral cleft exhibited a 6.6-fold (49.15% vs 7.49%), 4.7-fold (30.17% vs 6.47%), and 3.7-fold (35.14% vs 9.43%) higher cement leakage risk, respectively (Figure 2). The average volumes of injected cement in the leakage group were greater than in the no leakage group (5.17±1.24 ml vs 4.16±1.49 ml, t=4.330, P<0.001). The use of PKP was significantly associated with a lower cement leakage risk than PVP (10.77% vs 20.51%, χ2=4.988, P=0.026) (Figure 2). Additionally, univariate analysis showed there was no statistically significant difference between the 2 groups with regard to age, sex, fracture duration, bone mineral density, spinal segment of fracture, preoperative vertebral height, and preoperative kyphotic angle (P>0.05). The clinical and radiological features of the leakage and no leakage groups are shown in Table 1.

In addition, of the 116 vertebrae with dynamic fracture mobility, 62 vertebrae (53%) had an intravertebral cleft and 45 vertebrae (39%) had peripheral vertebrae wall damage. Of the 170 vertebrae without dynamic fracture mobility, 12 vertebrae (7%) had an intravertebral cleft and 14 vertebrae (8%) had peripheral vertebrae wall damage (Figure 3).

MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF RISK FACTORS:

Factors that showed differences by univariate analysis underwent multivariate logistic regression analysis, showing that peripheral vertebrae wall damage (OR=11.774, 95% CI 4.384–31.619, P=0.000), dynamic fracture mobility (OR=5.884, 95% CI 2.295–15.087, P=0.000), operative approach (OR=3.143, 95% CI 1.136–8.698, P=0.027) and cement volume injected (OR=1.486, 95% CI 1.119–1.973, P=0.006) were independent risk factors for postoperative cement leakage (Table 2, Figure 4).

Discussion

This retrospective study confirmed that dynamic fracture mobility was one of the most influential factors for cement leakage after PVP and PKP for OVCFs. In addition, peripheral vertebrae wall damage, operative approach, and cement volume injected were also be identified as risk factors associated with cement leakage.

Most of the intraoperative and postoperative adverse effects in PVP and PKP were associated with cement leakage [21]. To reduce the occurrence of complications, there is an urgent need to identify the risk factors for cement leakage. A variety of clinical information and procedural characteristics have been collected and analyzed [6–9]. However, there is no consensus on the risk factors for bone cement leakage.

Since dynamic fracture mobility was first demonstrated by McKiernan et al in 35% of treated vertebrae [10], many studies have explored its effect on deformity correction in PVP and PKP for OVCFs. In addition, many scholars consider dynamic fracture mobility as an important index for characterizing individual fractured vertebrae and engaging in PVP and PKP [11–14]. In the present study, the final results confirmed it was also one of the most influential factors affecting cement leakage.

Dynamic fracture mobility, peripheral vertebrae wall damage, and intravertebral cleft were 3 important indicators for evaluating fracture characteristics. It has been widely accepted that the presence of peripheral vertebrae wall damage is a strong risk predictor for cement leakage [4,6–8,17], which was also confirmed by the present study. However, the effect of an intravertebral cleft remains controversial to date. Some scholars reported that because of the frequently present connection with the peri-vertebral tissue, intravertebral cleft was an independent risk factor for cement leakage [22]. This view was also confirmed by Gao et al [6]. They found that the presence of an intravertebral cleft was a risk factor for intradiscal and paravertebral subtype of cortical leakages, but it was not an independent risk factor for overall level cement leakage. On the contrary, Krauss et al found that patients with intravertebral clefts showed a significant lower risk of cement leakage compared to non-cleft patients during vertebroplasty (18.2% vs 46%) [23]. They speculated the reason might be that an intravertebral cleft is an avascular process surrounded by a fibrocartilaginous membrane; cement leakage is thus only possible when vital bone tissue is filled in addition to the intravertebral cleft. Tomé-Bermejo et al also expressed a similar opinion [24]. In our study, the presence of peripheral vertebrae wall damage, dynamic fracture mobility, and intravertebral cleft exhibited a 6.6-fold, 4.7-fold, and 3.7-fold higher cement leakage risk, respectively. After further analysis, we discovered that of the 116 vertebrae that showed dynamic fracture mobility, 53% of the vertebrae had an intravertebral cleft and 39% of the vertebrae had peripheral vertebrae wall damage, and this proportion was only 7% and 8% in the vertebrae that lack dynamic fracture mobility, respectively. These 3 factors may intersect and coexist in a particular fractured vertebral body. After controlling for confounding factors, subsequent more precise multivariate logistic regression analysis excluded intravertebral cleft from the independent risk factors due to its relatively weak influence, and we found that dynamic fracture mobility could be used as an independent risk index to predict cement leakage.

Dynamic fracture mobility initially attracted attention because it implied complete corticocancellous disruption and allowed height recovery of the vertebra after postural reduction [25,26]. Liu et al reported that placement of the patient in prone hyperextended position produced a significant reduction of anterior vertebral height by 5.51±2.64 mm, middle vertebral height by 4.35±2.73 mm, and posterior vertebral height by 3.79±3.22 mm [27]. In turn, these vertebral height changes also aggravate damage to the peri-vertebral wall, thereby increasing the risk of cement leakage.

Percutaneous injection of bone cement into the fractured vertebrae is the most important step in PVP and PKP. Therefore, the characteristics of bone cement itself would play an important role in the effect of the operation. Both cement viscosity and cement volume have been widely demonstrated to be the major risk factors associated with cement leakage [28,29]. With the increase of injection volume of bone cement, the risk of cement leakage would also increase. The volume of bone cement injected was relatively small (mean volume was 4.32 ml) in our study, so the leakage incidence was relatively lower compared with some other reports. This result was consistent with Sun’s research [20]. They suggested that the optimal amount of cement injection in a single thoracolumbar fractured vertebral body was 4–6 ml. The optimal intravertebral cement volume/fractured vertebral body volume was 19.78%, which could achieve satisfactory cement distribution, rapid relief of pain, and reduce occurrence of cement leakage.

From the literature, we know cement viscosity is another crucial parameter associated with cement leakage risk. Because there was no objective standard to evaluate the cement viscosity, it was not analyzed as an impact indicator in this study. Optimal cement viscosity is subjective and multiple factors could influence it, such as storage conditions, mixed methods, operating room temperature, and surgeon experience [24,30,31]. To reduce the occurrence of bone cement leakage, the cement was injected during the phase of “toothpaste-like” consistency after mixing, according to most previous reports [32].

Many studies have confirmed that PKP has significant advantages over PVP in terms of vertebral height restoration, kyphosis correction, and prevention of bone cement leakage [33]. The use of an expandable balloon during PKP provided a low-pressure cavity for the cement injection, which could reduce the risk of cement leakage. However, PKP has not completely replaced PVP due to its higher cost, greater complexity, and longer operation time [34,35]. Even so, when risk factors, such as peripheral vertebrae wall damage and dynamic fracture mobility, for cement leakage are present, PKP is recommend because of its ability to reduce the incidence of complications associated with cement leakage. In addition, the importance of C-arm fluoroscopy for monitoring possible leakage and keeping the needle tip away from the cortical disruption should also be emphasized [6].

The present study has several limitations. First, we did not distinguish the type of cement leakage and did not further explore the unique risk factors for each type of leakage because of concerns that a relatively small sample size could lead to inaccurate results, but we believe that any pattern of leakage should be given sufficient attention. Second, this was a retrospective study with a small number of patients from a single center. Nevertheless, we believe that this study provides some meaningful information for practical work and future research directions. Further large-sample multicenter studies are needed to confirm this result.

Conclusions

This retrospective study showed that dynamic fracture mobility, peripheral vertebrae wall damage, operative approach, and cement volume injected were risk factors for cement leak following PVP and PKP. Surgeons should pay more attention to these factors and make a detailed plan before the operation to reduce the complications associated with cement leakage.

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