Background: A hip fracture causes bleeding, pain and immobility, and initiates inflammatory, hypercoagulable, catabolic and stress states. Accelerated surgery may improve outcomes by reducing the ...

In osteoporosis, bones become brittle and fragile, putting them at high risk of fractures or breaks. These "fragility fractures" can cause pain, suffering, disability and even death, and patients have ...

BACKGROUND: Previous studies that quantified the risk of fracture among patients with gout and assessed the potential effect of urate-lowering therapy have provided conflicting results. Our study aims ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hip fractures include fractures of the head, neck, intertrochanteric, and subtrochanteric regions. Head ...

In the case of a hip fracture, operating on a patient with dementia can be a difficult decision to make. Indeed, surgery exposes patients with dementia to a higher mortality rate, more delirium and ...

Hiroshi Urakawa; Satoshi Tsukushi; Kozo Hosono; Hideshi Sugiura; Kenji Yamada; Yoshihisa Yamada; Eiji Kozawa; Eisuke Arai; Naohisa Futamura; Naoki Ishiguro; Yoshihiro ...

This is the approach commonly adopted in the management of primary osteoporosis, 5 but it is not validated in patients with secondary osteoporosis caused by hormonal deprivation therapies, for which ...