Both percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) and percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) involve injection of polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) cement into diseased vertebral bodies to stabilize fractures. These procedures can give patients significant pain relief; however, PVP has a statistically higher risk of cement leakage than does PKP1. Cement pulmonary embolism reportedly occurs frequently during PVP2'3. In contrast, pulmonary embolism caused by acrylic cement leakage associated with PKP has seldom been reported in detail. The present case is a patient who developed pulmonary embolism after PKP for multiple osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (MOVCFs).
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