Fractures of the femoral neck in elderly patients can be treated by internal fixation, hemiarthroplasty, or total hip arthroplasty (THA), and the treatment modality used should be determined on the basis of considerations of the degree of fracture displacement, age, functional demands, and the risk factors for surgery and anesthesia. We studied 85 active elderly patients who underwent minimally...

Inter trochanteric fractures or Hip fractures are devastating injuries that most commonly affect the elderly and have a tremendous impact on both the health care system and society in general. The objective is to study the age and sex incidence of intertrochanteric fracture of femur, to study the quality of life after hemiarthroplasty in intertrochanteric fractures and to study the morbidity an...

INTRODUCTION Sustaining an intracapsular fracture in a hip which was previously fixed with dynamic hip screw for extracapsular fracture, is a very rarely reported occurrence. We present one such case in order to discuss the presentation and management of this fracture. We have also reviewed the literature and pooled the previously reported cases to look at potential cause & risk factors. CASE...

Simultaneous bilateral femoral neck fracture is rare injury. Cases with this type of fracture have been reported in the literature since the 1950s, following the introduction of electroconvulsive therapy which generates violent hip muscle contractions. In young patients' simultaneous bilateral femoral neck fracture results from high energy trauma (car accident or fall from height) in a normal b...

BACKGROUND This study compared the rates of mortality, medical complication, and reoperation after fixation surgery for displaced femoral neck fracture with those after hemiarthroplasty surgery for undisplaced femoral neck fracture using competing risk analysis in inpatients aged 60 years and above from a population database in Taiwan. METHODS We identified 13,772 subjects who underwent fixat...

background:  patients undergoing cemented hip hemiarthroplasty may develop bone cement implantation syndrome (bcis) which is a leading cause of intraoperative complications. the purpose of this study was to evaluate cardiovascular changes during cemented hip hemiarthroplasty in elderly patients.   methods:  cemented hip hemiarthroplasty was performed on 72 patients with femoral neck fracture. a...