The treatment of spinal pathologic fractures in patients with camptocormia complicating Parkinson's disease
2017
Abstract
A case report is presented, of two patients with Parkinson's disease complicated by Bending spine syndrome (camptocormia) and osteoporotic vertebral fracture. Patients were treated with posterior instrumented fusion with the reconstruction of the anterior column of the spine.
In the postoperative period the junctional instrumentation failure with development of pathological osteoporotic fracture occurred in both of the patients with the necessity of further revision surgery with posterior instrumentation extension in the range of Th10-S1. Both patients experiened only partial improvement.
Patients are able to walk only short distances with the necessity of using oral analgesics.