Diagnosis and treatment incidence of osteoporosis in patients with distal radius fractures
Abstract
Introduction: Distal radius fractures in elderly patients are an indicator of osteoporosis. The aim of this study was to determine osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment in patients with distal radius fractures treated surgically at our institution between 2012 and 2014.Methods:Information of 41 patients who had surgical intervention for distal radius fracture was obtained through telephones interviews. Several variables evaluated: age, sex, smoking, associated pathologies, previous fractures, preoperative and postoperative anti-osteoporotic treatments, specialty of the physicians that indicated antiosteoporotic treatment, and bone mineral density (BMD) studies performed.Results: The study included 41 patients (32 female).Twenty-six had a BMD performed before the fracture (15 evidenced osteoporosis), 11 had had previous fractures secondary to osteoporosis. Only 7patients were under anti-osteoporotic treatment to the moment of the fracture. After surgery, only 4 of the patients continued with the treatment. Pathological BMD had certain degree of associationwith the presence of Diabetes (type 2), but not with other comorbidities. The annual incidence rate of osteoporosis, calculated using all patients attended at our institution in 2014, was about 1%. Orthopedic surgeons indicated only 1.5% of the total number of BMDs prescribed that year.Conclusion: Our study suggests that there is poor prevention by orthopedic surgeons of secondary osteoporotic fractures, which is why a national prevention protocol for fractures secondary to osteoporosis would be considered necessary.Downloads
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