Background: A better understanding of how bone mineral density and vitamin D levels are associated with femoralneck and intertrochanteric hip fractures may help inform healthcare providers. We asked: 1) In patients age ≥ 55 years,is there a difference in quantitative ultrasound of the heel (QUS) t-score between patients with fractures of the femoralneck and those with fractures of the intertroc...

INTRODUCTION: Prediction of bone fracture goes beyond bone mineral density measurement. The quality of bone matrix is instrumental in providing fracture resistance to bone. Thus assessment of bone quality is critical to understanding bone fracture. Reference point indentation (RPI) purports to measure bone matrix quality in vivo and has been shown to separate fracture and non-fracture groups wi...

demineralized bone matrix has been successfully commercialized as an alternative bone graft material that not only can function as filler but also as an osteoinductive graft. numerous studies have confirmed its beneficial use in clinical practice. heterotopic ossification after internal fixation combined with the use of demineralized bone matrix has not been widely reported. in this paper we de...

a 3-year-old wild gray wolf was referred to the department of veterinary clinical sciences of shirazuniversity with a history of car accident. the radiographic examination showed supracondylar distal femoralfracture in right leg. the wolf was pre-medicated by acepromazine followed by induction of anesthesia usinga combination of diazepam and ketamine. anesthesia was maintained by halothane. the...

Ischemic stroke is a devastating complication of bone fracture. Bone fracture shortly after stroke enhances stroke injury by augmenting inflammation. We hypothesize that bone fracture shortly before ischemic stroke also exacerbates ischemic cerebral injury. Tibia fracture was performed 6 or 24 hours before permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion (pMCAO) on C57BL/6J mice or Ccr2RFP/+Cx3cr1GFP...

Mandibular fractures have a high incidence among facial bone fractures that necessitated prompt treatment. The use of autogenous graft as a fixation device for mandibular fracture may have an important role in bone healing with accepted biological effect, and normal bone growth especially in pediatric patients. Moreover it avoids the side effect of both inter maxillary fixation (IMF) and bone p...

Serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) and calcitonin (CT) levels in fractured racehorses were measured by radioimmunoassay. Racehorses with fracture of large bone such as the radius, third metacarpus, third carpus, digital bone or tibia, showed normal PTH level and elevated CT level in the serum. Serum PTH level was slightly higher in racehorses with sesamoid bone fracture compared to that of healthy...