Outcomes of basicervical femoral neck fracture treated with percutaneous compression plate (PCCP).

Introduction: Basicervical femoral neck fracture is associated with high rates of failure due instability patterns, mainly collapse and rotational instability. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical-radiological results of a group of patients with a bascervical proximal femoral fractures treated with Percutaneous Compression Plate (PCCP).

Material And Methods: Among 5817 patients with a hip fracture who were admitted in our hospital from January 2005 to December 2017, 234 factures (4%) were diagnosed of basicervical femoral fracture.

Biomechanical behavior of retrograde intramedullary nails in distal femoral fractures.

Fractures of the distal femur affect three different groups of individuals: younger people suffering high-energy trauma, elderly people with fragile bones and people with periprosthetic fractures around previous total knee arthroplasty. Main indications of intramedullary nailing are for supracondylar fractures type A or type C of the AO classification. The main objective of the present work is to analyze, by means of FE simulation, the influence of retrograde nail length, considering different blocking configurations and fracture gaps, on the biomechanical behavior of supracondylar fractures of A type.

Salvage of cephalomedullary nail cutout with the variable angle proximal femoral plate.

Introduction: Excellent results have been published in the treatment of the trochanteric fractures in the elderly with cephalomedullary nails or compression hip screws but not free of complications. The perforation of the lag screw through the superior cortex of femoral neck or head followed by rotation and varus collapse of the head-neck fragment, also known as cut-out, is one of them. Probably total hip arthroplasty is the most common solution, but there is no systematic technique for treatment.

Is the mortality higher in patients who have suffered a hip fracture?

Background And Objective: The aim of this study is to value whether patients who have suffered a hip fracture have a higher mortality than expected.

Material And Methods: A prospective, observational study was carried out where patients with hip fracture were collected as a sample over a year. The study included 284 patients and a minimum follow-up was 2 years.

Risk factors of periprosthetic femoral fracture after total knee arthroplasty.

Introduction And Objectives: Periprosthetic fractures after primary knee arthroplasty has great importance in our environment due to the increase in their incidence and to the challenge they pose to the surgeon. Multiple factors have been associated with its production. The objective of the study was to identify the risk factors that could influence the appearance of these fractures, which of them are all modifiable and generate a probability prediction model based on these factors.