Active clinical trials for "Fractures, Bone"

The aim of the study is to investigate whether a simple intervention improves the physical functioning and reduce mortality after surgery for elderly hip fracture patients in a period of one year follow up. We hypothesized that the postoperative intervention program decreases the mortality in one year and improves mobility. This study is a randomized controlled trial designed as a prospective intervention and a historical control group from the previous three months admitted operated hip fracture patients from another study and with bone mineral density and measurement of weight and height done. The study will include patients of both sexes, 50 years and older, after their approval to participate and applying exclusion criteria. A baseline assessment will be done for the included hip fracture patients, who will be admitted to Trauma Unit of Assiut University Hospitals and will be surgically treated for a period of 1 year. The exclusion criteria include patients with major accidents, polytrauma, pathological fractures and bilateral hip fractures. Also patients with thyroid malfunctions, renal diseases, cardiac diseases, long term immobilization, liver diseases and musculoskeletal disorders. Two well-trained nurses will carry out the personal interviews in the Trauma Unit ward with each patient and/or patients 'relatives using a structured questionnaire. Data collection will be done after providing informed consent. Bone mineral density, weight and height for every patient will be done. The follow up phone calls will be done for every patient at 3 months, 6 months and one year postoperative. Intervention group: Patients in the intervention Group will be provided with postoperative health education intervention program, which includes nutrition education for improving general and bone health and physical exercise training for the patient and his relative before discharge. This group will receive the usual care prior to the start of intervention and participating in the study. The phone calls will include questions about: if the patient is alive or not. If not, subsequent detailed questions about causes and timing of death will be filled in. If the patient is alive, subsequent questions about nutrition, commodities and physical activity will be filled in. Assessment of physical activity will be done by the Western Ontario And McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC).

This proposed study was designed to investigate the prevalence of a 5-year incident osteoporotic fracture and evaluate the association of a 5-year change of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D)/bone turnover makers/bone mineral density (BMD) with the incident fracture in the Chinese postmenopausal women, based on an endeavor of a 5-year post-baseline follow-up visit of a previous cross-sectional study, PK-VF, in which 1724 participants were enrolled and examined.

Shortening of the abductor lever arm is a particular concern with the SHS, and the resultant biomechanical alterations impairs gait, including decreased cadence and increased double support time on the injured side. The use of a IM nail device may stop this shortening and improve functional parameters in this patient cohort

This single-center open label study compares the outcomes of surgical repair of intratrochanteric fracture under general anesthetic or peripheral nerve blocks.

In the elderly patients with hip fracture, some often take antiplatelet drugs such as clopidogrel due to the ischemic cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases. In traditional practice, these patients often need to stop medication for 5-7 days before surgery. But on the other hand, delayed surgery will lead to a significant increase in fracture related complications. Therefore, the appropriate time for drug withdrawal is particularly important in this population. Thromboelastography is a monitoring method that can accurately judge the anticoagulation status of patients. We hope to use thromboelastography to guide the time of drug withdrawal, shorten the time of drug withdrawal as much as possible, and reduce the incidence of fracture related complications without increasing the risk of massive hemorrhage.

This study evaluates the continuous femoral block between levobupivacaine 0.125% and ropivacaine 0.2% in patients with proximal femoral fracture.These patients will be divided into 2 groups of 35 patients, one L group (levobupivacaine 0.125%) and one R group (ropivacaine 0.2%) distributed randomly, receiving continuous infusion through patient controlled analgesia (PCA) pump with the following parameters: infusion 5 ml / h, bolus 5 ml, lockout 30 min.

Patients with unilateral non-comminuted zygomatic complex fracture undergo fixation of the complex by a customized plate at one point after 3D virtual simulation and reduction of the complex using Mimics software.

Clavicular fracture, constitutes 2.6% e 5% of all adult fractures, most are located in the midshaft clavicle with different degrees of displacement. Conservative methods are commonly used for midshaft clavicular fractures treatment, but with various unsatisfactory complications such as nonunion, malunion and shoulders asymmetry. The rate of malunion after conservative treatment for the midshaft clavicular fractures reached 15%, and 30% patients were unsatisfied. Recently, early midshaft clavicular fractures could greatly reduce the incidence rate of nonunion and malunion. Open reduction and plate-screw fixation was considered as the gold standard with the advantages of firm fixation and earlier postoperative mobilization, but also with disadvantages of larger incision and more organizations being exposed, presenting with many postoperative complications. Intramedullary fixation treatment for mid-clavicular fractures has been favored due to its strengths including small incision, less periosteal striping, dispersion of stress and simple to operate However, early intra-medullary implants, such as Hagie pins and Kirschner wires, have been gradually replaced due to insufficient stability. In addition, various nails such as elastic stable intramedullar

- Evaluate the role of VAC in decreasing the time needed for soft tissue coverage and definitive fixation in open IIIB tibial fractures

Tibial pseudarthrosis in 83 year old patient suffering from pathologic fractures