It was reported via a literature article entitled "infection after vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty.A series of nine cases and review of literature." that a case series with a long-term follow-up of spinal infection after vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty was reviewed.A retrospective, uncontrolled clinical case series in a single institution.Between (b)(6) 1997 and (b)(6) 2012, 1307 patients underwent percutaneous vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty.Six cases had post-operative infection and three additional cases were referred from other institutions for salvage treatment.Nine patients were included: six females and three males (mean age was 73.8 years).Co-morbidities were found in all patients.Kyphoplasty was done in five patients and vertebroplasty was done in 4.Three cases with early infection presented within 1 month.Infection parameters were high in all patients at re-admission.All patients were treated surgically except one case who died before the planned revision surgery.In all cases, debridement and corpectomy were done through anterior approaches combined with posterior instrumentation.Most common causative organism was staphylococcus aureus in three cases.Mean follow-up period after revision was 26.68 months, excluding two patients who died early in the follow-up period (within 9 months).At the end of the follow-up, two patients had unrestricted activities and one patient required a walker.Of three par-paretic patients, two improved functionally and could walk unassisted and one improved but still used a wheelchair.
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