Please read this post if you are considered having kyphoplasty to repair a compression fracture in your spine.
I had 2 vertebrae repaired with cement on Tuesday. Then 2 hours after the procedure I was in the emergency room because some of the cement had gone into my artery through my heart and got lodged in my lung causing me to have problems breathing. This is referred to as a pulmonary cement embolism or CPE. Apparently it's very rare to have happen but if it happened to me it can happen to you. And for me anyway, the only treatment I've had and the only truth that is planned are blood thinners for two to three months. Well that and I have to be on oxygen 24/7.