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1 sty 2023 · Complex fracture patterns, such as multifragment involvement of the lateral malleolus, additional fracture of the medial malleolus, involvement of the dorsal tibial facet or bony avulsion of the syndesmosis are common in ankle fractures of the elderly due to osteoporotic bone density (18).
21 wrz 2021 · Furthermore this literature study aims to provide an overview of the different kinds of treatments for elderly men and women aged 80 and over with an ankle fracture, and which treatment is most effective for the target population.
7 kwi 2021 · The latest NICE guidelines emphasise the importance of regularly assessing pain in ankle fracture patients, using a scale suitable for the patient’s age, developmental stage and cognitive function (NICE 2016a).
21 wrz 2021 · Ankle fractures have a bimodal age distribution, with one peak in young men and one peak in elderly women around the age of 60 years [1, 4]. It is a challenge to treat these fractures in elderly people because they are prone to complications like infection and loosening of osteosynthetic material, and the outcome of these injuries is less ...
31 maj 2016 · In patients with osteoporotic bone, a pathological external rotation force to the ankle will produce bone avulsions of the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis rather than a purely ligamentous injury.
20 wrz 2024 · Ankle fractures are very common injuries to the ankle which generally occur due to a twisting mechanism. Diagnosis is made with plain radiographs of the ankle. Treatment can be nonoperative or operative depending on fracture displacement, ankle stability, presence of syndesmotic injury, and patient activity demands. 1.
Following Institutional Review Board approval, all patients 55 years or older who sustained a torsional ankle fracture (AO/OTA 44A-C) between 2006 and 2015 were identified. Four-hundred twenty-nine patients met such criteria.
