[Survival of proximal femoral fractures vs. mean life expectancy of the general population : Retrospective analysis of 1000 geriatric patients minimum 10 years after operation].

Background: Surgery for geriatric proximal femoral fractures (PF) is associated with high mortality rates within the first year. Studies with follow-up of at least 10 years after surgery are lacking.

Material And Methods: Based on our database, we reviewed patients with PF who underwent surgery and were followed for a minimum of 10 years.

Two-thousand hip fractures treated within 12 h and > 12-24 h after admission: Are survival and adverse events affected?

Background: The effects of immediate operation on hip fracture (HF) are unclear. Therefore, we investigated the influence of time to operation within 12 h vs. > 12-24 h on survival and adverse events.

Parkinson's disease and hip fractures: Are complications and mortality rates increased?

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) in comparison with patients without PD for the treatment of hip fractures. Therefore, we performed a mono-centre study including 145 patients with PD and 2135 consecutive patients without PD as a concurrent group (C).

Methods: For analysis, we used our database, in which any type of hip fracture was enrolled.

Internal fixation and revision arthroplasty for interprosthetic femoral fractures: a case series of fifty patients.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess patients treated for interprosthetic femoral fractures (IFFs).

Method: Based on our database, we performed a retrospective single-center analysis of patients who underwent surgery for the treatment of IFFs. We evaluated patient demographics, fracture patterns, type of surgery, revision, and mortality for a minimum of one year after treatment.

[The PHILOS plate-also an indication for osteosynthesis of the distal tibia?].

According to the manufacturer's instructions the application of a PHILOS plate is restricted to humeral fractures. An extension to other anatomical regions of the body is not provided; however, based on the anatomical design of the plate it was observed that the application of this plate also appears to be possible for the distal tibia. This article reports three different osteosyntheses by a reverse PHILOS plate on the medial malleolus and on the distal tibia posteriorly with a short and a long PHILOS plate design.

PFNA and DHS for AO/OTA 31-A2 fractures: radiographic measurements, morbidity and mortality.

Purpose: For this retrospective cohort study, we assessed pertrochanteric fracture types AO/OTA 31-A2. PFNA and DHS were the devices used. We determined both devices in relation to peri-operative variables, postoperative radiographic measurements, implant-related complications and mortality up to 2 years.

Risk stratification of organ confined bladder cancer after radical cystectomy using cell cycle related biomarkers.

Purpose: We tested whether assessing the expression of cell cycle related proteins (p53, pRB, p21 and p27) could predict clinical outcomes after radical cystectomy in patients with organ confined urothelial carcinoma of the bladder.

Materials And Methods: Our study included a development cohort of 272 patients and an external testing cohort of 52 patients with chemotherapy naïve pT1-2N0M0 urothelial carcinoma of the bladder treated with radical cystectomy. Immunohistochemical staining of p53, p27, p21 and pRB was performed on the development cohort of 272 patients and the external testing cohort of 52 patients.

Multicolor FISH (UroVysion) facilitates follow-up of patients with high-grade urothelial carcinoma of the bladder.

The aim of the present prospective study was to assess the diagnostic benefit of UroVysion (Vysis-Abbott Laboratories, Downers Grove, IL) in the follow-up of patients with a history of high-grade non-muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (NMIBC). An unselected cohort of 25 patients with a history of high-grade NMIBC was prospectively followed up by office-based cystoscopy, cytology, and UroVysion in 210 events. The sensitivity and specificity for standard combined cystoscopy and cytology were 78% and 83%, respectively.