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Spine Society of Europe honors poster on balloon kyphoplasty.
2004 JUL 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Kyphon Inc. (KYPH) announced that the Spine Society of Europe (SSE) awarded top honors to a clinical poster on balloon kyphoplasty during SpineWeek 2004, a combined meeting of leading scientific spine societies that took place in Porto, Portugal from May 30 to June 5, 2004.
Isador Lieberman, an orthopedic and spine surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, earned the Best SSE Clinical Science Poster Award for his study assessing the clinical outcomes of balloon kyphoplasty in a prospective group of 63 consecutive patients with 264 vertebral body fractures.
The poster concluded that the procedure is associated with early and sustained clinical improvement in pain and function in patients with vertebral body collapse.
"I am honored to have our research recognized by the SSE, and am gratified that the panel of judges appreciates the substantial role that kyphoplasty plays in the practice of spine surgery," remarked Lieberman.
"Kyphoplasty provides an important therapeutic alternative to those patients who have few options when debilitated by pain and are immobile due to the ramifications of spinal fractures.
"In our practice at the Cleveland Clinic, we are able to deliver significant clinical outcomes to patients using the balloon kyphoplasty technique with minimal risk of morbidity.
"Considering our experience with these results, I now advocate early treatment of collapsing vertebral ...
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