All patients received routine treatment such as anti-infection, anticoagulation and analgesia after fracture surgery. The control group receives conventional rehabilitation treatment methods: (1) 0–2 ...

Hip fracture is a significant health problem and is associated with increased mortality. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are more at risk of hip fracture than the general population, but ...

Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA Increased age- and sex-adjusted US fracture ...

In the case of a hip fracture, operating on a patient with dementia can be a difficult decision to make. Indeed, surgery exposes patients with dementia to a higher mortality rate, more delirium and ...

"It would be exciting if these medications were truly bone protective," says researcher ...

A widely used fracture risk calculator may help guide surgical decisions to treat patients with an endocrine disorder called primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) that causes progressive bone loss, ...

Identifying patients with osteoporosis or low bone mineral density and high risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible in administrative data using osteoporosis diagnoses and fracture risk profile.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW YORK — A retrospective review presented at the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Annual Meeting showed ...

If you've been diagnosed with the bone-thinning disease of osteoporosis, you already know that preventing fractures is a key part of treatment. An osteoporosis-related broken bone is called a ...

Patients with dementia are six times more likely to die after sustaining a hip fracture than are those without dementia, new research shows. Preliminary results from a registry-based study also showed ...