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A Biomechanical Study on the Various Factors of Vertebroplasty Using Image Analysis and Finite Element Analysis  

전봉재 (인제대학교 의생명공학대학 의용공학과)
권순영 (인제대학교 의생명공학대학 의용공학)
이창섭 (인제대학교 부산 백병원 정형외)
탁계래 (건국대학교 의과대학 의용공학)
이권용 (세종대학교 기계항공우주공학)
이성재 (인제대학교 의생명공학대학 의용공학과)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.25, no.3, 2004 , pp. 171-182 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigates the biomechanical efficacies of vertebroplasty which is used to treat vertebral body fracture with bone cement augmentation for osteoporotic patients using image and finite element analysis. Simulated models were divided into two groups: (a) a vertebral body, (b) a functional spinal unit(FSU). For a vertebral body model, the maximum axial displacement was investigated under axial compression to evaluate the effect of structural integrity. The stiffness of each FE model simulated was normalized by the stiffness of intact model. In the case of FSU model, 3 types of compression fractures were formulated to assess the influence on spinal curvature changes. The FSU models were loaded under compressive pressure to calculate the change of spinal curvature. The results according to the various factors suggest that vertebroplasty has the biomechanical efficacy of the increment of structural reinforcement in a patient who has relatively high level of BMD and a patient with the amount of 15%, PMMA injection of the cancellous bone volume. The spinal curvatures after compression fracture simulation vary from 9$^{\circ}$ to 17$^{\circ}$ of kyphosis compared to that the spinal curvature of normal model was -2.8$^{\circ}$ of lordosis. These spinal curvature changes cause the severe spinal deformity under the same loading. As the degree of compressive fracture increases the spinal deformity also increases. The results indicate that vertebroplasty has the increasing effect of the structural integrity regardless of the amount of PMMA or BMD and the restoration of decreased vertebral body height may be an important factor when the compressive fracture caused the significant height loss of vertebral body.
Keywords
Vertebroplasty; Compression fracture; Bone mineral density(BMD); PMMA; Biomechanics; Finite element method;
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