VertaPlex® HV Bone Cement: Viscosity Overview

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Learn about Stryker's new high viscosity bone cement, VertaPlex HV, for use in treating vertebral compression fractures (VCFs).

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Indications
Vertaplex HV Radiopaque Bone Cement is indicated for the fixation of pathological fractures of the vertebral body using vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty procedures. Painful vertebral compression fractures may result from osteoporosis, benign lesions (hemangioma), and malignant lesions (metastatic cancers, myeloma).

Contraindications
The use of VertaPlex HV Radiopaque Bone Cement is contraindicated in patients with:
* Allergies or sensitivity to any of its chemical components
* The presence of active or incompletely treated infection at the site where the bone cement is to be injected
* Coagulation disorders, or with severe cardiopulmonary disease
* Spinal stenosis (less than 20% by retropulsed fragments)
* Vertebral plana (collapse less than 90%)
* Compromise of the vertebral body or the walls of the pedicles
* Unstable vertebral fractures due to posterior involvement
* Patient clearly improving on medical therapy
* Prophylaxis in metastatic or osteoporotic patients with no evidence of acute fracture
* Non-Pathological, acute traumatic fractures of the vertebra

Part Number: 1000-025-029 Rev None

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Science & Technology

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• VertaPlex® HV Bone Cement
• Viscosity
• VCFs
• Stryker Interventional Spine
• Stryker IVS
• Pain Management