Risk Factors for Cut-out After Internal Fixation of Trochanteric Fractures in Elderly Subjects.

Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild

Status: Completed

Conditions: Proximal Femoral Fracture

Treatments: Other: Analysis of associated factors for cut-out in internal fixation of extracapsular proximal femoral fracture.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT03975868

30342858

Details and patient eligibility

About

Proximal femoral fracture is associated with severe morbidity and mortality and high socioeconomic costs. The main mechanical complication of internal fixation in trochanteric fracture is lag-screw cut-out through the femoral head. Several factors are involved, but remain controversial. The aim of the present study was to determine risk factors for cut-out in internal fixation of extracapsular proximal femoral fracture.

Enrollment: 228 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients over 75 years of age
• Operated on for extracapsular proximal femoral fracture
• After bodyheight fall

Exclusion criteria

• Intra-capsular fractures
• trochantero-diaphyseal fractures
• subtrochanteric fractures
• fractures involving pathological bone