With intraoperative femur fractures on the rise, surgeons should aim to prevent these fractures from occurring by identifying ...

AST/ALT ratio may predict 1-year mortality in elderly patients operated for femoral neck fracture suggests a study published ...

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, 250031 Jinan, China. 2 Research on 2013 stage doctoral student of TCM Orthopaedics, Shandong University of ...

Not having surgery is an option. Hip replacement surgery is an elective treatment that people can choose to have if the timing is right for them. People who have severe arthritis of the hip but ...

Femoral Neck Fracture (FNF): A fracture that occurs in the femoral neck, which is the region just below the ball of the hip joint. Internal Fixation: A surgical procedure that involves the use of ...

Distal femur fractures are significant injuries that often occur in both young and elderly populations, typically resulting from high-energy trauma or falls. The treatment of these fractures is ...

Background: Various factors contribute to postoperative delirium (POD) in elderly patients undergoing hip fracture surgeries. Sarcopenia was defined as the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and ...

This is an effective treatment for certain types of hip fractures when ... Hip fusion surgery eliminates all motion at the hip joint by having the bones of the femur and pelvis heal together.

This is the time frame when the bone holding the implant is most susceptible to fracture. Therefore, current recommendations are to avoid running, jumping, and lifting for the first 12 months after ...

Total hip arthroplasty (THA ... The majority of older patients who sustain a valgus impacted or a nondisplaced femoral neck fracture should be treated with internal fixation rather than joint ...

Conclusions: Hip fractures, especially femoral neck fractures, accounted for the majority of osteoporotic fractures ... The most common surgical treatment for hip fracture was replacement surgery, ...