Perforation of the right cardiac ventricular wall by polymethylmethacrylate after lumbar kyphoplasty.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.3171/2009.5.SPINE08517.
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Abstract
The authors report the case of a 74-year-old woman who underwent an L-2 vertebral kyphoplasty. The patient experienced delayed postoperative hemodynamic deterioration that may have been caused by embolization of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) cement through the right cardiac ventricular wall. Cardiac and pulmonary embolization of bone cement can develop as a complication of vertebral kyphoplasty. Surgeons should be alert to this potentially life-threatening condition when performing this increasingly popular form of spine procedure.
Medical subject headings
- Bone Cements
- Heart Injuries
- Lumbar Vertebrae
- Polymethyl Methacrylate
- Spinal Fractures
- Vertebroplasty
Anatomy
- lumbar spine