ALLMedicine™ Hip Fracture Center

May 7th, 2021 - Hip fractures are a common health problem among the elderly with an increasing incidence. They are associated with high mortality and morbidity. Optimal pain management remains challenging and inadequate pain control is known for negatively affect...

May 7th, 2021 - Hip fractures are common in the elderly, and many patients with hip fractures have low vitamin D levels. This study found that severe vitamin D deficiency is linked to poorer recovery of function and quality of life after hip fracture surgery. Vit...

May 6th, 2021 - Surgery for hip fractures should be performed within 48 h from patient's admission. However, several factors including chronic antiplatelet therapy could delay operation. Among the totality of patients taking clopidogrel, up to 30% are resistant t...

May 6th, 2021 - The 30-day mortality rate after hip fracture surgery has been considered as an indirect indicator of the quality of care. This work aims to appraise the Barthel Index, Katz Index, Lawton-Brody Index, and Physical Red Cross Scale registered in the ...

May 5th, 2021 - Hip fracture surgery is among the most performed surgical procedures in elderly patients. Mortality rates are high, however, and patients often fail to live independently following a hip fracture. To improve outcome, multidisciplinary care pathway...

Feb 1st, 2021 - Hip fracture is a leading cause of profound morbidity in individuals aged 65 years and older, ranking in the top 10 causes of loss of disability-adjusted life-years for older adults. Worldwide, the number of people with hip fracture is expected to...

Sep 9th, 2019 - Background: Whether health outcomes of menopausal estrogen therapy differ between women with and without bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) is unknown. Objective: To examine estrogen therapy outcomes by BSO status, with additional stratificati...

Nov 14th, 2018 - Osteoporosis is defined as low bone mineral density caused by altered bone microstructure ultimately predisposing patients to low-impact, fragility fractures. Osteoporotic fractures lead to a significant decrease in quality of life, with an increa...

Aug 6th, 2018 - A previous fracture increases the risk of subsequent fractures [1], even when the previous fracture is considered to be “traumatic” [2]. Since the correlation between prior fracture and future fractures is robust and at least partially independent.

Jul 31st, 2018 - Liposomal bupivacaine (LB) has demonstrated efficacy in improving pain scores and reducing opioid consumption across a variety of surgical settings, including orthopaedic surgery. However, meticulous infiltration techniques combined with a multimo.

May 7th, 2021 - Hip fractures are a common health problem among the elderly with an increasing incidence. They are associated with high mortality and morbidity. Optimal pain management remains challenging and inadequate pain control is known for negatively affect...

May 7th, 2021 - Hip fractures are common in the elderly, and many patients with hip fractures have low vitamin D levels. This study found that severe vitamin D deficiency is linked to poorer recovery of function and quality of life after hip fracture surgery. Vit...

May 6th, 2021 - Surgery for hip fractures should be performed within 48 h from patient's admission. However, several factors including chronic antiplatelet therapy could delay operation. Among the totality of patients taking clopidogrel, up to 30% are resistant t...

May 6th, 2021 - The 30-day mortality rate after hip fracture surgery has been considered as an indirect indicator of the quality of care. This work aims to appraise the Barthel Index, Katz Index, Lawton-Brody Index, and Physical Red Cross Scale registered in the ...

May 5th, 2021 - Hip fracture surgery is among the most performed surgical procedures in elderly patients. Mortality rates are high, however, and patients often fail to live independently following a hip fracture. To improve outcome, multidisciplinary care pathway...

Apr 18th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Increased levels of uric acid may signal a higher risk of hip fracture, according to a large population-based cohort study by researchers in Europe. "Our results suggest that uric acid could be useful as an easily measu...

Jan 21st, 2021 - Most people recover from the depression associated with a hip fracture in about a year as they return to normal activities, researchers find. Physicians can help by encouraging these patients to stay in contact with friends and family, said senior...

Dec 20th, 2020 - Women treated with oral bisphosphonate drugs for osteoporosis for 5 years get no additional benefit ― in terms of hip fracture risk ― if the treatment is extended for another 5 years, new research shows. "We found that hip fracture risk in women d...

Dec 9th, 2020 - Globally, more than 200 million people are affected by osteoporosis, a metabolic bone disorder in which low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue lead to increased bone fragility and susceptibility to fractures. Osteoporotic fractu...

Nov 2nd, 2020 - Getting out of bed within 36 hours of surgery after a hip fracture significantly increases the odds of earlier discharge from hospital, finds new UK research published in the journal  Age and Ageing. The researchers examined data for 135,105 patie...