Mr Fagan has been kindly invited to attend a meeting in London as one of the country’s opinion leaders in vertebral body augmentation. The meeting is convened by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and its purpose is to assess whether there is enough evidence of Balloon Kyphoplasty (BKP) being safer and more effective than Vertebroplasty(VP).
Mr Fagan uses BKP for his osteoporotic and tumour fracture patients because he believes that complication rates are lower and it is a more effective and reproducible procedure.
The International experience is that this is the case, especially in America, where less vertebroplasties are now performed in the face of new evidence.
