Haque A, Singh HP. Mortality following combined fractures of the hip and proximal humerus. World J Orthop 2020; 11(10): 426-430 [PMID: 33134105 DOI: 10.5312/wjo.v11.i10.426]
Corresponding Author of This Article
Aziz Haque, FRCS, Surgeon, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester, Gwendolen Road, Leicester B170RH, United Kingdom. aziz.leicester@gmail.com
Research Domain of This Article
Orthopedics
Article-Type of This Article
Retrospective Study
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World J Orthop. Oct 18, 2020; 11(10): 426-430 Published online Oct 18, 2020. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v11.i10.426
Mortality following combined fractures of the hip and proximal humerus
Aziz Haque, Harvinder Pal Singh
Aziz Haque, Harvinder Pal Singh, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester B170RH, United Kingdom
Author contributions: Haque A was involved in the conception of the study along with data collection, analysis and write up of manuscript; Singh HP was involved in the conception, analysis and write up of the study.
Institutional review board statement: Ethics committee review was not required for this study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There are no conflicts of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Aziz Haque, FRCS, Surgeon, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester, Gwendolen Road, Leicester B170RH, United Kingdom. aziz.leicester@gmail.com
Received: June 11, 2020 Peer-review started: June 11, 2020 First decision: July 21, 2020 Revised: August 3, 2020 Accepted: September 14, 2020 Article in press: September 14, 2020 Published online: October 18, 2020
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background
Combined hip and proximal humerus fractures are rate injuries that may be associated with increased mortality and morbidity.
Research motivation
The motivation for this study came from the idea that patients being admitted to our unit following these combined injuries may not have been getting good care for the proximal humerus fracture as hip fractures were the priority. So we wanted to see if mortality is higher for these patients and inpatient stay. Also the motivation was to increase awareness of this injury with other trauma surgeons so that more consideration can be given to these injuries.
Research objectives
To compare mortality and inpatient stay for patients with combined hip and proximal humeral fractures and hip fractures alone.
Research methods
Retropective single centre analysis of local data from a national database.
Research results
Increased mortality and inpatient stay with combined injuries.
Research conclusions
Combined fractures of the hip and proximal humerus are associated with increased morbidity and mortality when compared to isolated hip fractures. These combined injuries are relatively rare and more equal consideration should be given to both fractures when they do occur.
Research perspectives
This is important for those surgeons looking after patients with hip fractures and specialist upper limb surgeons.
