Perlove Medical’s 3D Flat-Panel Mobile C-Arm can provide high-definition orthopedic 3D imaging directly in the operating room. After completing a vertebroplasty procedure, it’s often difficult to detect bone cement leakage using traditional 2D anterior-posterior and lateral imaging. However, with the 3D Flat-Panel Mobile C-Arm, surgeons can observe the dispersion of bone cement within the vertebrae from a 360° perspective.
Osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCF) are common in the elderly, primarily causing back or chest pain. Due to osteoporosis, the strength and rigidity of the vertebrae are compromised, leading to fractures. OVCF patients often face difficulties in daily activities, poor health conditions, and a reduced quality of life.
Traditional treatments include medication, physical therapy, and bed rest, which may partially relieve symptoms but can accelerate bone loss and muscle atrophy with prolonged bed rest, negatively affecting recovery. These treatments also impose significant psychological and economic burdens on patients, further diminishing their quality of life.
Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) is a primary surgical treatment for OVCF. This procedure involves injecting bone cement into the vertebrae through a needle guided by imaging equipment (such as the 3D Flat-Panel Mobile C-Arm) to restore vertebral height.
Injecting bone cement enhances the strength and rigidity of the vertebrae, improving the patient’s condition during surgery. PVP surgery can quickly relieve pain, shorten hospital stays, and help patients resume daily activities sooner, improving their quality of life.
One of the most common and severe complications of PVP is bone cement leakage, which can lead to paralysis or death in severe cases. Factors affecting leakage include patient condition, surgical technique, surgical instruments, bone cement materials, and imaging equipment.
Patient condition and surgical technique can be managed through strict surgical indications, standardized training, and stringent admission protocols. However, surgical instruments, bone cement materials, and imaging equipment require advancements in medical devices, consumables, and equipment from manufacturers.
Standard orthopedic C-arms only provide coronal and sagittal plane images, requiring surgeons to rely heavily on experience and multiple punctures, which can easily damage the inner wall of the pedicle, leading to bone cement leakage outside the vertebrae, and in severe cases, into the spinal canal.
The 3D Flat-Panel Mobile C-Arm offers coronal, sagittal, transverse plane images, and 3D reconstructed spatial images, helping clinicians select the appropriate needle angle and position, reducing the need for multiple punctures, effectively minimizing bone cement leakage, and enhancing safety.
Perlove Medical’s 3D Flat-Panel Mobile C-Arm provides 2D/3D imaging data during orthopedic surgeries with extremely low radiation doses, about 1/30th to 1/40th of traditional CT. It features a 30CM*30CM dynamic flat-panel detector with a large imaging range (capable of imaging five lumbar vertebrae at once), eliminating the need for repeated fluoroscopy, saving surgical time, and improving surgical efficiency and outcomes.
