Recently, Zhecheng Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine successfully performed minimally invasive vertebroplasty for a 97-year-old man, successfully repaired the fracture, once again broke the forbidden area of elderly surgery, and refreshed the age record of this operation. On the day after surgery, the elderly can get out of bed and move.
It is understood that the old man fell and injured his waist when he was active at home 10 days ago, resulting in waist pain and inability to move, and he was on bed rest at home and treated symptomatically with drugs. For nearly a week, the pain symptoms continued to worsen, and I couldn't get out of bed and move. The family was so anxious that they were diagnosed with a "compression fracture of the lumbar 1 vertebrae" after a local visit, and surgery was recommended. Hearing that surgery was needed, the family hesitated, and after inquiring repeatedly, they heard that the Department of Spine and Orthopedics of the Beiguan Branch of Zhecheng Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was very experienced in this area, so they took the old man to the Department of Spine Orthopedics.
After receiving the spine orthopedics, it attaches great importance to organizing general discussion, considering that the patient is super old, the function of various organs in the body is declining, if conservative treatment, the need to stay in bed for a long time, may aggravate osteoporosis, resulting in fractures that do not heal, but also easy to occur pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis and other complications, serious cases are life-threatening. The spine and orthopedic team fully assessed the patient's condition, conducted a multidisciplinary joint consultation with the anesthesiology department and other relevant departments, formulated the optimal surgical plan, and performed percutaneous puncture vertebroplasty minimally invasive surgery for him.
The operation was led by Zhang Xingjuan, director of the Department of Spine and Orthopedics, and the "bone cement" was accurately injected into the lesion vertebral body through the puncture needle, which took 10 minutes, and the operation was successful and the patient's vital signs were stable. After the operation, only a needle-sized wound remains, and the elderly can get out of bed and move on the day after the operation.
It is reported that there are many elderly patients with osteoporotic fractures admitted to the Department of Spine Orthopedics every year, and the incidence of osteoporosis increases with age. Percutaneous vertebroplasty is indicated for older patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with severe pain and has a number of advantages. At present, with the continuous maturity of medical technology, the Department of Spine and Orthopedics of Zhecheng Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine can routinely carry out this operation, which has relieved the pain of countless patients who are elderly, have many underlying diseases, and are not suitable for long-term bed rest.