Can Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgeons Help Address the Osteoporosis Epidemic?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Osteoporosis is a known, modifiable risk factor for lower extremity periprosthetic fractures. Unfortunately, a high percentage of patients at risk of osteoporosis who undergo THA or TKA do not receive routine screening and treatment for osteoporosis, but there is insufficient information determining the proportion of patients undergoing THA and TKA who should be screened and their implant-related complications.

Questions/purposes

(1) What proportion of patients in a large database who underwent THA or TKA met the criteria for osteoporosis screening? (2) What proportion of these patients received a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) study before arthroplasty? (3) What was the 5-year cumulative incidence of fragility fracture or periprosthetic fracture after ar

SUBMITTER: Agarwal AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427059 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature