2012, Number 3
Clasificación de las fracturas de la cadera
Padilla GR
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Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 140-149
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ABSTRACT
Hip fractures are a pathologies which are very complex and hard to treat. They are seen in older people most of the time after they suffer low energy accidents. Younger patients in the working age, on another side, show up hip fractures alter they suffer high energy accidents. Hip fractures are almost always side by side with conditions such as osteoporosis, diabetes, EPOC, hypertension, artrosis, anemia, urine infections, etc. It is a problem of public health, since the occupation of beds in private hospitals is really elevated, with really high economic and social costs. The patient presents medical, socioeconomic, psychological and familiar consequences without exception. The problem affects woman 2 or 3 times more than men, but the mortality rate during the first post-operatory year is higher in men, sometimes as high as 26%. In the EUA there are approximately more than 300 thousand fractures per year, influenced negatively by being Caucasian, the feminine sex, alcoholism, previous hip fracture history, psychotropic medical drugs, 3rd age insanity, excessive consumption of caffeine, etc. Common medical gabinet studies play an extremely important role in the diagnosis and treatment of those fractures. There have been described a lot of categories for the pathology, but in this article we will describe only the most important ones.REFERENCES