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Effect of Age on the Patterns of Traumatic Femoral Fractures: Seven Years of Experience at a Regional Tertiary Hospital

OBJECTIVE: Femoral fractures are a common cause of mortality and functional loss, mainly among older people, and there are few studies about the age in relation to traumatic femoral fractures. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of age on the patterns of traumatic femoral fractures i...

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Autores principales: Yuan, Hong, Yu, Hailong, Zhu, Yunpeng, Xiang, Liangbi, Wang, Hongwei
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9483057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35929600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/os.13410
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author Yuan, Hong
Yu, Hailong
Zhu, Yunpeng
Xiang, Liangbi
Wang, Hongwei
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Yu, Hailong
Zhu, Yunpeng
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Wang, Hongwei
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description OBJECTIVE: Femoral fractures are a common cause of mortality and functional loss, mainly among older people, and there are few studies about the age in relation to traumatic femoral fractures. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of age on the patterns of traumatic femoral fractures in patients presenting to our regional tertiary hospital. METHODS: The records of 2020 patients who presented with traumatic femoral fractures between 2013 and 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. The patients' clinical and radiographic records were reviewed. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression were used to identify independent risk factors for associated injuries and complications. RESULTS: The patients were divided into a child group (CH group, n = 342) aged under 18 years, a young adult group (YA group, n = 484) aged 18–60 years, and an older people group (OP group, n = 1194) aged 60 years and over. There were significant differences among the three groups in several indexes, such as sex ratio (χ (2) = 301.699, p < 0.001), osteoporosis (χ (2) = 375.463, p < 0.001), injury time of day (χ (2) = 114.913, p < 0.001), injury cause (χ (2) = 748.187, p < 0.001), injury location (χ (2) = 490.153, p < 0.001), fracture side (χ (2) = 57.000, p < 0.001), fracture site (χ (2) = 806.650, p < 0.001), associated injuries (χ (2) = 322.921, p < 0.001), coma after injury (χ (2) = 147.814, p < 0.001), non‐surgery‐related complications (χ (2) = 7.895, p = 0.019), and surgery‐related complications (χ (2) = 82.186, p < 0.001). The YA group had a significantly higher percentage of patients with surgery‐related complications than the OP group. The OP group had a higher frequency of non‐surgery‐related complications than the YA group and CH group. The most common non‐surgery‐related complications were pneumonia (7.1%) in the OP group and deep venous thrombosis (6.4%) in the YA group. Multivariable logistic regression showed that young adults, high‐energy injury, outdoors, coma after injury, and fracture sites except for the proximal region were independent risk factors for associated injuries. Older age, male, and fracture site except for the proximal region were independent risk factors for complications. CONCLUSIONS: Traumatic femoral fractures are mostly the result of low‐energy trauma and predominantly affect the proximal site of the femur among older people. A higher rate of shaft fractures, fractures occurring outdoors, and associated injuries were observed among young adults and children than among older people.
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spelling pubmed-94830572022-09-29 Effect of Age on the Patterns of Traumatic Femoral Fractures: Seven Years of Experience at a Regional Tertiary Hospital Yuan, Hong Yu, Hailong Zhu, Yunpeng Xiang, Liangbi Wang, Hongwei Orthop Surg Clinical Articles OBJECTIVE: Femoral fractures are a common cause of mortality and functional loss, mainly among older people, and there are few studies about the age in relation to traumatic femoral fractures. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of age on the patterns of traumatic femoral fractures in patients presenting to our regional tertiary hospital. METHODS: The records of 2020 patients who presented with traumatic femoral fractures between 2013 and 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. The patients' clinical and radiographic records were reviewed. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression were used to identify independent risk factors for associated injuries and complications. RESULTS: The patients were divided into a child group (CH group, n = 342) aged under 18 years, a young adult group (YA group, n = 484) aged 18–60 years, and an older people group (OP group, n = 1194) aged 60 years and over. There were significant differences among the three groups in several indexes, such as sex ratio (χ (2) = 301.699, p < 0.001), osteoporosis (χ (2) = 375.463, p < 0.001), injury time of day (χ (2) = 114.913, p < 0.001), injury cause (χ (2) = 748.187, p < 0.001), injury location (χ (2) = 490.153, p < 0.001), fracture side (χ (2) = 57.000, p < 0.001), fracture site (χ (2) = 806.650, p < 0.001), associated injuries (χ (2) = 322.921, p < 0.001), coma after injury (χ (2) = 147.814, p < 0.001), non‐surgery‐related complications (χ (2) = 7.895, p = 0.019), and surgery‐related complications (χ (2) = 82.186, p < 0.001). The YA group had a significantly higher percentage of patients with surgery‐related complications than the OP group. The OP group had a higher frequency of non‐surgery‐related complications than the YA group and CH group. The most common non‐surgery‐related complications were pneumonia (7.1%) in the OP group and deep venous thrombosis (6.4%) in the YA group. Multivariable logistic regression showed that young adults, high‐energy injury, outdoors, coma after injury, and fracture sites except for the proximal region were independent risk factors for associated injuries. Older age, male, and fracture site except for the proximal region were independent risk factors for complications. CONCLUSIONS: Traumatic femoral fractures are mostly the result of low‐energy trauma and predominantly affect the proximal site of the femur among older people. A higher rate of shaft fractures, fractures occurring outdoors, and associated injuries were observed among young adults and children than among older people. John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2022-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9483057/ /pubmed/35929600 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/os.13410 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Orthopaedic Surgery published by Tianjin Hospital and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Yuan, Hong
Yu, Hailong
Zhu, Yunpeng
Xiang, Liangbi
Wang, Hongwei
Effect of Age on the Patterns of Traumatic Femoral Fractures: Seven Years of Experience at a Regional Tertiary Hospital
title Effect of Age on the Patterns of Traumatic Femoral Fractures: Seven Years of Experience at a Regional Tertiary Hospital
title_full Effect of Age on the Patterns of Traumatic Femoral Fractures: Seven Years of Experience at a Regional Tertiary Hospital
title_fullStr Effect of Age on the Patterns of Traumatic Femoral Fractures: Seven Years of Experience at a Regional Tertiary Hospital
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Age on the Patterns of Traumatic Femoral Fractures: Seven Years of Experience at a Regional Tertiary Hospital
title_short Effect of Age on the Patterns of Traumatic Femoral Fractures: Seven Years of Experience at a Regional Tertiary Hospital
title_sort effect of age on the patterns of traumatic femoral fractures: seven years of experience at a regional tertiary hospital
topic Clinical Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9483057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35929600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/os.13410
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