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...

Bacground/Aim. Intertrochanteric fractures of the femur are the third most common fractures among all bone fractures. Today in everyday orthopedic practice a number of different methods of treatment of trochanteric fractures of the femur are applied. Despite the improvement in the development of new implants, the percentage of serious complications of the treatment of these fractures remains ve...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing functional outcomes in elderly patients with united intertrochanteric fractures treated with hip nails and to ascertain whether decreased femoral offset due to lag screw sliding has a negative effect on functional outcomes in these patients. This retrospective study included 65 patients older than 65 years with united intertro...

Background: The best method for repairing intertrochanteric fractures is still controversial. The fixation methods includeextramedullary (EM) and intramedullary (IM). Studies that compare IM and EM fixations for unstable hip fractures arerare. In this study, our goal was to compare the efficacy of EM and IM fixation in treatment of unstable intertrochantericfractures.Met...

INTRODUCTION Proximal femoral nail antirotation (PFNA) and third-generation Gamma nail (Gamma 3) are widely used in the treatment of intertrochanteric fractures. However, it remains unclear which device achieves better clinical and radiographic outcomes when treating intertrochanteric fractures. METHODS This study comprised 239 patients with intertrochanteric fractures treated with either PFN...

Intertrochanteric fractures are very common among elderly patients. These fractures are cause of significant morbidity and mortality in conservatively treated patients. Because of that the treatment of choice is surgery. The most commonly used surgical method is internal fixation which is associated with intraoperative blood loos and prolonged anesthesia. The elderly patients are high risk pati...

Unstable Intertrochanteric Fractures in Elderly Osteoporotic Patients can be a difficult problem to manage. Various studies have established advantages of primary bipolar hemiarthroplasty over internal fixation in this subset of cases. We would like to share our experience of Transtrochanteric approach in the scenario of intertrochanteric fractures. Thirty six patients who met the inclusion cri...

PURPOSE To describe a variant of intertrochanteric fracture not well-characterised in the existing classification systems. METHODS 10 women and 2 men aged 59 to 98 (median, 80) years with intertrochanteric fractures characterised by a low intertrochanteric fracture, a basicervical fracture fragment, and a thin or fractured lateral wall with greater trochanteric comminution were reviewed. RE...

BACKGROUND Sliding hip screws (SHSs) and intramedullary (IM) nails are well-documented implants for simple two-part intertrochanteric fractures; however, there is no consensus regarding which type of implant is better. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES We asked whether patients with simple two-part intertrochanteric fractures treated with IM nailing had (1) a lower reoperation rate and (2) less pain and bet...

Numerous internal fixation devices have been used to stabilize intertrochanteric fracturesWe have analyzed the results of the intertrochanteric fractures treated with dynamic hip screw fixation. 33 patients (13 males, 20 females) were included. Range of age was 50-90 years, right side involved in 21 cases whereas left side in 12 cases and classified according to Boyd and griffin classification ...