General anesthesia keeps you in a sleep-like state during the procedure. The type of anesthesia you receive depends on the type of procedure and the number of spinal bones involved. You'll likely have a flexible narrow tube inserted into a vein in your arm or hand. You should arrange in advance for someone to drive you home. Wear comfortable clothing and leave your jewelry at home. Follow your health care provider's instructions. You may need to avoid taking blood thinners for a few days before the procedure. If you take daily medications, you may be able to take them the morning of the procedure with small sips of water. You may need to avoid eating or drinking for several hours before vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty. These procedures might increase the risk of fractures in neighboring spinal bones. Very rarely, this can damage these organs and sometimes even cause death. Tiny pieces of this leaked cement also can enter the bloodstream and move to the lungs, heart, kidneys or brain. This can cause new symptoms if the cement presses on the spinal cord or nerves. Part of the cement can leak from the spinal bone. Risks associated with either procedure include: Then the balloon is deflated and removed before the cement is injected. The balloon is inflated to create more space inside the bone. In a similar treatment, called kyphoplasty, a balloon is first inserted into the spinal bone.
Vertebroplasty involves injecting a type of bone cement into a broken spinal bone.
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