1. Hip fractures in extremely old patients
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Turgut Akgül, Ali Erşen, Taha Kızılkurt, Mehmet Kapicioglu, Yavuz Sağlam, Onder Yazicioglu, and KAPICIOĞLU, MEHMET
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Old patients ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Hip fracture ,business.industry ,General surgery ,computer.software_genre ,medicine.disease ,Comorbidity ,Text mining ,medicine ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Original Article ,Data mining ,business ,computer - Abstract
The purpose of this study was to report a less seen age-group (90) of hip fractures and to assess the predictors of functional loss, complications and mortality.Thirty-two patients at a mean age of 92.8 (±2.7) were treated in a single institution and reported at a mean follow-up of 2.02 (±1.35) years.Mortality was similar between proximal femoral nailing (PFN) and bipolar cemented hemiarthroplasty (BCH) in first year (p = 0.17) but significantly high in following years in BCH (p = 0.035) and patients with cardiac disease (p = 0.054).Hip fractures are challenging in extremely old patients and associated with increased mortality and disability.
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- 2014