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bone fracture
Complications:
- any fracture in women > 50 years increases risk of subsequent fracture (RR=1.5) [2]
Management:
- early repair of displaced fractures tends to result in better outcomes
- delay surgical repair for at least 4-6 weeks after myocardial infarction [1]
- immobilization for non-displaced fractures
- exceptions: hip fracture
- low-intensity pulsed ultrasound to stimulate bone healing not recommended
* see risk of fracture or [2] for risk calculator
Interactions
disease interactions
Related
repair of bone fracture
risk of fracture
Specific
ankle fracture
calcaneus fracture
closed fracture
elbow fracture
femoral fracture; fracture of the femur (hip fracture)
fibular fracture
hand fracture
humeral fracture
malunion of fracture
mandibular fracture
metatarsal fracture
minimal trauma (pathologic, osteoporotic, fragility, insufficiency) fracture
nonunion (malunion) of fracture
open fracture; compound fracture
Pel-Epstein fever
pelvic fracture
radial fracture
rib fracture
skull fracture (cranial fracture)
sternal fracture
stress fracture (fatigue fracture)
tarsal fracture
tibial fracture
toe fracture
ulnar fracture
vertebral fracture; spine fracture
General
bone disease; osteopathia
References
- Geriatric Review Syllabus, 8th edition (GRS8)
Durso SC and Sullivan GN (eds)
American Geriatrics Society, 2013
- Crandall CJ et al.
Risk of subsequent fractures in postmenopausal women after nontraumatic vs
traumatic fractures.
JAMA Intern Med 2021 Jun 7; [e-pub].
PMID: 34096979 PMCID: PMC8185628 (available on 2022-06-07)
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2780745
- Foundation for Osteoporosis Research an Education (FORE)
10 Year Fracture Risk Calculator
https://riskcalculator.fore.org