Pain response at both follow-up intervals after percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) in patients without bone marrow edema (BME) in treated vertebral compression fractures (VCF) prior to PV and patients with severe BME in treated VCF prior to PV
| Follow-up Period after PV | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Month | 3 Months | |||||
| No BME | Severe BME | P Value | No BME | Severe BME | P Value | |
| Pain unchanged at treated level(s) | 4 (29%) | 2 (6%) | .04 | 4 (29%) | 1 (3%) | .01 |
| Pain decrease at treated level(s) | 10 (71%) | 29 (94%) | .04 | 10 (71%) | 30 (97%) | .01 |
| Back pain decrease in general | 9 (64%) | 27 (87%) | .08 | 9 (64%) | 23 (74%) | .4 |
| Pain at untreated other level with no diagnostic substrate | 1 (7%) | 2 (6%) | .9 | 1 (7%) | 6 (19%) | .3 |
| Symptomatic new VCF | 0 | 1 (3%) | .5 | |||