Osteoporosis Associated Vertebral Fractures - Medical and Socio-economic Aspects in Austria

Medical University of Vienna

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoporotic Fractures

Treatments: Procedure: Non-operative treatment; Procedure: Operation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02403726

2011/896

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purposes of this study were to analyse demographic, medical, gender and socio-economic aspects of osteoporosis associated vertebral fractures.

Enrollment: 694 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-patients older than 50 years of age with vertebral fractures at the thoracic or lumbar spine caused by a low-energy trauma or without any trauma, or with vertebral fractures at the thoracic or lumbar spine with typical osteoporotic deformity of the vertebrae (wedge, fish, or flat)

Exclusion criteria

• patients younger than 50 years of age
• vertebral fractures at the cervical spine
• vertebral fractures at the thoracic or lumbar spine caused by a high-energy trauma (motor-vehicle accident, sports-related accident, fall from a considerable height)
• patients suffering from a malignancy, making a pathological fracture presumably, patients with vertebral fractures, whose dataset of follow-up monitoring was lacking, to make an evaluation of osteoporotic involvement impossible

Trial design

694 participants in 1 patient group

osteoporosis associated vertebral fractures

Description:

Analyzation of demographic, medical, gender and socio-economic aspects of osteoporosis associated vertebral fractures.

Treatment:

Procedure: Operation

Procedure: Non-operative treatment