The Wait Time for Surgery Following Injury Affects Functional Outcomes and Complications After an Ankle Fracture: A Propensity Score-Matched Multicenter Study, the TRON Study.

Background: The present study aimed to evaluate the hypothesis that a 1-week extension of the waiting period to perform surgery for ankle fracture might affect postoperative results and complications.

Methods: We used our multicenter database named TRON (Trauma Research Group of Nagoya). In all, 779 patients who underwent surgery for ankle fracture, who had no comorbidities were eligible.

Early weight bearing and mobilization decrease perioperative complications in patients after ankle fracture; the retrospective multicenter (TRON group) study.

Background: Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) for unstable ankle fractures (AF) are relatively predictable with excellent outcomes. Rehabilitation strategies are still being debated after surgical intervention for AF: non-weight bearing and cast immobilization for six weeks after the surgical repair of unstable AF or early functional treatment with partial weight bearing. This study aimed to compare early weight bearing and functional outcomes and complications.

Smoking and trimalleolar fractures are risk factors for infection after open reduction and internal fixation of closed ankle fractures: A multicenter retrospective study of 1,201 fractures.

Introduction: One of the complications of the surgical therapy for ankle fractures includes wound infection. This study aimed to evaluate postoperative function and clarify the risk factors associated with postoperative wound infection in patients receiving the open reduction and internal fixation for ankle fracture through a multicenter study.

Subjects And Method: Among 1421 patients diagnosed as having closed ankle fracture and who were treated by surgical therapy in 11 institutions from 2014 through 2019, 1201 patients (men, n = 512, women, n = 689; the mean (SD) age, 50.