Source: CCTV Finance
Fractures caused by osteoporosis, some people call it the "invisible killer" of the elderly, osteoporosis in old age, sneezing, stretching a lazy waist, may lead to vertebral fractures, many people mistakenly think that other diseases and delay treatment, similar cases often occur.
It is reported that about 1.81 million new patients with osteoporotic vertebral fractures are added in China every year, most of whom are elderly patients, and the mortality rate within 4 years is as high as 49.4%. The treatment of vertebral fractures, if open surgery, is highly traumatic and has a high incidence of complications, which has been a major difficult problem in orthopedic surgery. How can this dilemma be solved?
One day, an 87-year-old man came to the orthopedic clinic of the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, who had back pain for more than a year and coughed, and thought it was pneumonia, but she had not seen the medicine well.
Through X-ray, Yang Huilin, director of the Department of Orthopedics, saw that this was a vertebral fracture caused by osteoporosis, but the family did not even know that the old man had fractured the bone.
Osteoporosis caused by fractures, Yang Huilin said that it is the "invisible killer" of the elderly, osteoporosis in the elderly, sneezing, stretching a lazy waist, may lead to vertebral fractures, many people mistakenly think that other diseases and delay treatment, similar cases often occur in Yang Huilin's office.
He told reporters that there are about 1.81 million new osteoporosis vertebral fracture patients in China every year, most of whom are elderly patients, and the mortality rate within 4 years is as high as 49.4%.
The treatment of vertebral fractures, if open surgery, is highly traumatic and has a high incidence of complications, which has been a major difficult problem in orthopedic surgery. As early as 2000, Yang Huilin carried out minimally invasive kyphoscoplasty to treat osteoporosis fractures, simply put, injecting bone-specific cement into the vertebral body.
One day, they had to give a 96-year-old man vertebral fracture repair surgery, infuse bone cement into the spine, if the cement leaked, it may cause spinal cord injury or pulmonary artery embolism, severe cases will lead to paralysis or even death.
Surgery relies on fluoroscopy to accurately and safely locate it. For more than a decade, Yang Huilin and his team have been wearing lead clothing, dealing with radiation for a long time, conducting in-depth research around the minimally invasive treatment of osteoporosis vertebral fractures, and cleverly solving this problem using pressure sensors.
Through sensors and aids, accurately find the fracture site, inject bone cement, less than two hours, the operation is over, the wound on the old man's back is only the size of a charging line.
In 2017, the establishment and application of the minimally invasive treatment system for osteoporosis vertebral fractures by Yang Huilin's team won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, from 2016 to 2021 has won four national science and technology progress awards, the reporter learned that the hospital has been paying attention to the investment in basic science and clinical application transformation, like in 2020, the hospital has invested nearly 100 million yuan in various scientific research projects at all levels.