Hip Fractures
Reducing hip fractures in the elderly
... summary: Hip fractures usually occur in the elderly after suffering a minor ...for hip fractures. Therefore, prevention of hip fractures should naturally focus on prevention of ...
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Statin use and hip fractures in U.S. kidney transplant recipients
... between hip fracture sta- tus and statin use [adjusted OR ...reduced hip fractures rates com- pared to controls adherent to hypertension drugs [HR ...and hip fracture ...of hip fracture ...
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A comparison of bone density and bone morphology between patients presenting with hip fractures, spinal fractures or a combination of the two
... with hip fracture are a selected group of ...that hip fractures in either sex will show similar deficiencies regardless of ...with hip fracture and no spinal fracture, the analysis shows this ...
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A protocol for staged arthroplasty to salvage infected nonunion of hip fractures
... deep hip infection with failed treatment of hip fractures (intracapsular in 16 cases and extracapsular in 11) were treated between June 2007 and September ...two-stage hip arthro- plasty and ...
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Clopidogrel and hip fractures, is it safe? A systematic review and meta analysis
... “Hip fractures”, “Femoral neck fractures”, “Neck of femur fractures”, “Orthopaedic surgery”, “Surgery”, “Bleeding”, “Blood loss” (Additional file ...
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Reverse LISS plating for intertrochanteric Hip Fractures in elderly patients
... Hip fractures are a leading cause of death and disability among the ...of hip fractures are intertrochanteric fractures, a large percentage of which are unstable ...
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Occult hip fractures : using MRI in diagnosis and patient management
... RNI detects increased uptake in the hip but this can be attributed to arthritis, synovitis and tumour which are pathologies more common in ages 70+. It is common practice to defer the scan for 72 hours after ...
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Total hip arthroplasty versus hemiarthroplasty for independently mobile older adults with intracapsular hip fractures
... It is also uncertain whether the reported benefits for THA over HA [6 – 9] can be replicated beyond the con- trolled environment of clinical trials. For example, there is a clear association between THA outcome and ...
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Reducing mortality from hip fractures: a systematic quality improvement programme
... of hip fractures; the British Orthopaedic Association guidelines “The Blue Book” recommends that surgery should not be delayed beyond 48 hours unless there are clearly reversible medical ...
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Overgrowth of the femoral neck after hip fractures in children
... In our study, overgrowth of the femoral neck was vis- ible by 12 months post-injury in 12 patients (40 %). The average overgrowth length was 6.2 mm (range 3.2– 8.5 mm) after a mean follow-up of 4.9 years. Young-age ...
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Quality of life following hip fractures: results from the Norwegian hip fracture register
... on hip fractures in Norway as a prospective observational ...for hip fractures are re- ported on standard one-page forms to the register by the ...the fractures were categorized into ...
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Surgical preferences of patients at risk of hip fractures: hemiarthroplasty versus total hip arthroplasty
... of hip fracture, which made them a high- risk population for intracapsular hip fractures yet avoided biases such as chronic pain secondary to osteoarthritis or a prior hip replacement with HA ...
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Original Article The effects of partial hip replacement surgery after hip fractures on complete blood count parameters in elderly
... partial hip replacement surgery due to hip fractures and to analyze and compare the changes in these parameters upon ad- mission to the hospital, after surgery, and before ...partial hip ...
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Cerebrovascular accidents associated with hip fractures: morbidity and mortality—5-year survival
... with hip fractures between 2003 and ...neck fractures according to the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification codes 820–821 and who were admit- ted to the ...
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Recommendations for the acute and long-term medical management of low-trauma hip fractures
... a hip fracture do not satisfy this ...of hip fractures occur following a ...subsequent fractures, in particular at the hip and nonvertebral sites, is best achieved by interventions ...
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Increased risk of hip fractures in patients with dementia: a nationwide population-based study
... In conclusion, patients with dementia have a signifi- cantly higher risk of hip fracture after adjustments for selective confounding factors such as age, gender, and underlying comorbidities. This study also ...
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Thirty-day mortality after hip fractures: has anything changed?
... For a better patient assessment and mortality predictor the Nottingham Hip Fracture Score seems to provide important help in regard to 30-day mortality. Variables such as increased age, the presence of 2 or more ...
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Geriatric trauma hip fractures: is there a difference in outcomes based on fracture patterns?
... (70%). Hip fractures patterns were categorized as two fracture classes and three fracture ...neck fractures Z-score = − 8.86, p < 0.001, trochanteric fractures Z-score = − ...0.001). ...
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Heuristic Optimization of Bone Cement Distribution for Prevention of Osteoporotic Hip Fractures
... osteoporotic fractures, hip fractures are the ones with most serious ...these fractures is femoroplasty, consisting of the injection of bone cement into an osteoporotic femur in order to ...
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The incidence of hip fractures in Norway –accuracy of the national Norwegian patient registry
... of hip fractures from databases It is evident that regional differences in coding praxis exist even in recent ...dent fractures, as postoperative out-patient follow-up visits were also coded with the ...
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