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Wound Management

, 2023
Wound healing is the process by which the function of damaged tissue is restored following surgery, trauma or other sources of tissue damage. The management of wounds is a fundamental aspect of the management of the patient following a fragility fracture,
Bååth, Carina,, Hommel, Ami, Bååth, Carina, Hommel, Ami,   +3 more
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Association of Respiratory Tuberculosis with Incident Bone Fracture: Bridging the Tuberculosis Airway Infection and the Osteoporotic Bone.

PLoS ONE, 2016
ObjectiveThe relationship between respiratory tuberculosis (RT) and incident fragility fracture and osteoporosis/fragility fracture in the general population is not well determined; therefore, we conducted a nationwide cohort study to investigate this ...
Jun-Jun Yeh, Yu-Chiao Wang, Che-Chen Lin, Cheng-Li Lin, Wu-Huei Hsu   +4 more
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Discrimination of vertebral fragility fracture with lumbar spine bone mineral density measured by quantitative computed tomography

Journal of Orthopaedic Translation, 2019
Background/Objective: This study is a case–control study to explore risk and protective factors, including clinical data and bone mineral density (BMD), affecting vertebral body fragility fracture in elderly men and postmenopausal women.
Yi-Fan Mao, Yong Zhang, Kai Li, Ling Wang, Yi-Min Ma, Wei-Lin Xiao, Wen-Liang Chen, Jia-Feng Zhang, Qiang Yuan, Nicole Le, Xiao-Lin Shi, Ai-Hong Yu, Zhenming Hu, Jie Hao, Xiao-Guang Cheng   +14 more
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MUSCLE HEALTH PARAMETERS IN FRAGILITY FRACTURE RISK ASSESSMENT IN ELDER PEOPLE – A SCOPING REVIEW

, 2022
Muscle parameters in fragility fracture ...
Colin Vendrami
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Preventing the next fragility fracture: a cross-sectional survey of secondary fragility fracture prevention services worldwide

, 2023
BACKGROUND: There has been an increasing awareness of the public health impact of fragility fractures due to osteoporosis and the imperative of addressing this health burden with well-designed secondary fragility fracture prevention services (SFFPS). The
Juliana Martins Pinto, Kim Fergusson, Robyn Speerin, Wararat Boonnasa, Tasha Koerner-Bungey, Peter van den Berg, Muhaamad K Javaid, Ding-Chen (Derrick) Chan, Sonia Singh   +8 more
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Dysmobility syndrome: a paradigm shift in fracture prevention

Bolʹ, Sustavy, Pozvonočnik, 2017
Fragility fractures engender major healthcare cost, reduce independence/quality and life and increase mortality risk. Despite availability of multiple therapies to reduce risk for future fracture, few patients are treated even following hip fracture ...
Neil Binkley, Diane Krueger
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Rates of Osteoporosis Management and Secondary Preventative Treatment After Primary Fragility Fractures

JBJS Open Access, 2021
Background:. Fragility fractures are often sentinel events in documenting new cases of osteoporosis. Numerous analyses have demonstrated low rates of adequate osteoporosis evaluation and treatment following primary fragility fractures.
Bailey J. Ross, BA, Olivia C. Lee, MD, Mitchel B. Harris, MD, Thomas C. Dowd, MD, Felix H. Savoie, III, MD, William F. Sherman, MD, MBA, MFIN   +5 more
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Association between body mass index and fragility fracture in postmenopausal women: a cross-sectional study using Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2008–2009 (KNHANES IV)

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background The present study examined the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the risk for fragility fractures in postmenopausal Korean women.
Jihan Kim, Sami Lee, Sung Soo Kim, Jong-Pyo Lee, Jong Sung Kim, Jin Gyu Jung, Seok Jun Yoon, Kyu Pil Kim, Chan-Keol Park, Yong-Hwan Kim   +9 more
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Breaking the fragility fracture cycle [PDF]

Osteoporosis International, 2011
Fracture begets fracture. This phenomenon has been wellcharacterised in many prospective studies and summarised by meta-analyses [1, 2]; a prior fracture at least doubles a patient’s future fracture risk. Elevated fracture risk persists for up to 10 years after the initial fracture event [3] and is greatest during the first year after this [4]. Several
Cooper, C., Mitchell, P., Kanis, J. A.
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ASSERT (Acute Sacral inSufficiEncy fractuRe augmenTation): Perceptions in the Assessment and Treatment of Pubic Rami and Sacral Fragility Fractures Amongst Healthcare Professionals in Geriatric Medicine and Surgery—A Qualitative Study

Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation, 2021
Background: Pubic rami fragility fractures are common in older people and result in significant morbidity and increased mortality. Co-existing fractures of the sacrum are common, but routinely missed.
Opinder Sahota, Paul Leighton, Maribel Cameron, Rachael Taylor, Terence Ong, Avril Drummond, Paul Hendrick, Nasir Quraishi, Khalid Salem,   +9 more
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