Disease relevance of Femoral Neck Fractures

• Steroid use and impaired functional status also predicted femoral neck fractures instead of intertrochanteric fractures [1].
• The 6-year survival rate was investigated in 646 patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or complications following femoral neck fracture between 1978 and 1982 [2].
• However, there was a regional bias in the fracture patients, as the Colles' and spinal fracture patients had a preferential reduction in spinal and pelvic BMD, whereas the patients with femoral neck-fracture had a preferential reduction in pelvic and leg BMD [3].
• Vitamin C depletion and pressure sores in elderly patients with femoral neck fracture [4].
• A review of 205 consecutive patients was carried out to determine the association of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) and the development of wound infection in patients having undergone surgery for a femoral neck fracture: 114 patients treated with LMW Heparin (Group A) and 91 patients with mechanical prophylaxis (Group B) [5].

High impact information on Femoral Neck Fractures

• The incidence of bone fragility (measured as femoral-neck fractures) was found to be significantly less in Kuopio than in Jyväskylä. This finding seems to be associated with a fluoride content of 1 mg/l in the drinking-water of Kuopio [6].
• Articular cartilage specimens from patients with femoral neck fractures were incubated with ox-LDL, with or without preincubation with neutralizing anti-LOX-1 antibody [7].
• Trochanteric BMD was 13% lower in women and 11% lower in men for patients with trochanteric fracture than in those with femoral neck fracture (p < 0.01) [8].
• In 124 patients with femoral neck fracture and 74 aged control subjects a seasonal variation was observed in the serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, and PTH [9].
• METHODS: DNA fragmentation was detected by in situ nick end labelling (ISNEL) in the synovium of patients with RA (n = 11) and control patients with femoral neck fracture (n = 5) [10].

Chemical compound and disease context of Femoral Neck Fractures

• Serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D and parathyroid hormone in patients with femoral neck fracture in southern Finland [11].
• Effects of protein-rich supplementation and nandrolone in lean elderly women with femoral neck fractures [12].
• Fifty-seven patients, all over the age of 64, with femoral neck fracture were randomized to receive epidural or halothane anesthesia to see if the anesthetic technique influenced the incidence of postoperative confusion [13].
• Balance studies were performed in thirty-three post-menopausal women (all but five having vertebral crush fractures or femoral neck fractures) in the basal state and on treatment with 1alpha-hydroxyvitamin D3 and/or oestrogenic hormones [14].
• We concluded that patients who have femoral neck fracture who are at high risk for operation and have to be observed and stabilized before operation can be managed by continuous epidural methadone analgesia [15].

Biological context of Femoral Neck Fractures

• The action of corticosteroids, thyroxine, phenobarbitone, phenytoin, frusemide and bendrofluazide on bone density and their responsibility for femoral neck fractures are discussed [16].

Anatomical context of Femoral Neck Fractures

• Osteoclasts were detected histochemically (by tartrate resistant acid phosphatase staining) on bone biopsies from 10 control subjects, 8 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and 10 patients with a femoral neck fracture of osteoporotic origin [17].

Gene context of Femoral Neck Fractures

• Fifteen (8.4%) of 179 patients admitted with femoral neck fractures carried MRSA [18].
• To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of a patient with normocalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism presenting with bilateral femoral neck fracture [19].
• CONCLUSION: The results support the use of an SHS and DHS composite compared with three cancellous screws in the treatment of unstable basicervical femoral neck fractures [20].
• OBJECTIVES: To compare maximum extraction torque and pull-out load for femoral neck fracture implants inserted with standard technique or after augmentation with polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) or calcium phosphate cement (Norian SRS) [21].
• This case report demonstrates osteogenic sarcoma at the site of a Smith-Petersen nail that had been implanted for nine years in a 65-year-old woman for fixation of a femoral neck fracture [22].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Femoral Neck Fractures

• A 63-year-old male who had been on hemodialysis for 14 years developed extensive amyloid deposition in the femoral head and neck that, after a fall, resulted in a femoral neck fracture [23].

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