Current Research Status and Progress in Kümmell’s Disease

Yude Xu

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Current Research Status and Progress in Kümmell’s Disease

Yude Xu

Published in European Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences (Volume 8, Issue 5)

Received: 31 August 2022 Accepted: 15 September 2022 Published: 27 September 2022

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Abstract

With the arrival of an aging society, the incidence of Kümmell’s disease (KD), one of the complications of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCF), has gradually increased, because it easily leads to vertebral instability and causes intractable pain or neurological dysfunction, and the disability rate of the disease is high, placing a serious burden on society and families. Since Dr. Kümmell Hermann first reported Kümmell’s disease in 1895, more than 100 years later, the pathogenesis of this disease has not been elucidated, but many scholars generally believe that the presence of intravertebral vacuum cleft (IVC) sign on imaging is a specific sign of vertebral ischemic osteonecrosis and Kümmell’s disease should be highly suspected. About two-thirds of patients with Kümmell’s disease have no significant back pain symptoms in the early stages, resulting in patients rarely going to the hospital for relevant examinations. At the same time, trivial injuries are easily overlooked by patients, so it is difficult to make an early diagnosis of this disease. Progressive kyphosis due to vertebral collapse has already developed in this disease at the time of diagnosis, so treatment becomes difficult, and there is currently no uniform guideline for the treatment of this disease. The purpose of this review is to discuss the latest research progress of Kümmell’s disease and provide some reference for spinal surgeons.

Published in	European Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences (Volume 8, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ejcbs.20220805.11
Page(s)	71-74
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Osteoporosis, Kümmell’s Disease, Vertebral Fracture, Osteonecrosis, Intravertebral Vacuum Cleft

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Department of Orthopedics, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

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