fhi.no Objectives Patients with hip fracture are typically characterised by extensive comorbidities and excess mortality. Methods that account for a wide range of comorbidities are needed when ...

This study evaluates the role of the number of secondary diagnoses for calculating the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) in risk adjustment of the 90-day mortality rate after hip fracture surgical ...

Like angering The Hulk, Chet Holmgren's basketball superpowers have grown the deeper the Thunder have gone in the playoffs. A ...

A new study published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research showed that more than 80% of patients with hip fractures had osteosarcopenia, 83.6% had sarcopenia, and 97.95% had ...

Hip fractures, often a result of a fall, are the most serious type of osteoporotic fracture because they are accompanied by considerable pain, loss of muscle and bone strength, reduced mobility ...

We derived dates of recorded hip fractures and also information on smoking, use of corticosteroids, and a number of other drugs. We calculated the absolute risk of fracture and the relative risk as a ...

The aim of the study was to determine if operating early on patients with neck of femur fractures who are on clopidogrel increases the risk of clinically significant bleeding, reflected in rate of ...

The results of this study confirm that intramedullary nailing with the use of a GN is a safe method for stable and unstable pertrochanteric fractures. Despite good functional and radiographic ...

and 2 patients with subtrochanteric fractures. Proximal femoral nail antirotation (PFNA) was performed in 82 patients, accounting for 66.13% of all patients. This was followed by total hip ...

Abstract: This contribution presents a system designed to monitor the fracture healing progress after osteosynthesis of the femoral bone, using an intramedullary nail. The instrumented nail enables ...

Hip fractures, often a result of a fall, are the most serious type of osteoporotic fracture because they are accompanied by considerable pain, loss of muscle and bone strength, reduced mobility and ...