Functional outcome after successful internal fixation versus salvage arthroplasty of patients with a femoral neck fracture.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine patient independency, health-related and disease-specific quality of life (QOL), gait pattern, and muscle strength in patients after salvage arthroplasty for failed internal fixation of a femoral neck fracture.

Design

Secondary cohort study to a randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Multicenter trial in the Netherlands, including 14 academic and nonacademic hospitals.

Patients

Patients after salvage arthroplasty for failed internal fixation of a femoral neck fracture were studied. A comparison was made with patients who healed uneventfully after internal fixation.

Intervention

None (observatory study).

Main outcome measurements

Patient characteristics, SF-12, and Western Ontario McMaster osteoarthritis index scores were coll

SUBMITTER: Zielinski SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4233012 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature