Trends in opioid use following balloon kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures.
W NiC RickerM QuinnN GasquetD JanardhananC J GilliganJoshua A HirschPublished in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2021)
Interventional treatment for VCF was associated with decreased or discontinued opioid prescription fills and reduced payer costs in follow-up in a significant proportion of the study population. Reduction of opioid-based harms may represent a previously unrecognized benefit of vertebral augmentation for VCF, especially in this elderly and medically fragile population.