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The Double Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) Adjustable Implant System for Proximal and Distal Femur Fractures
K.-K. Dittel M. Rapp (Eds.)
The Double Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) Adjustable Implant System for Proximal and Distal Femur Fractures In collaboration with W. Abendschein, A. Ateschrang, S. Decker-Burgard, M.-R. Felenda, K. K. Förster, D. Janssen, B. Marquardt, W. Miller, K. M. Peters, R. Plank, S. Uppenbrink, R. Zirn
With 287 Figures in 400 separate Illustrations and 24 Tables
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Karl-Klaus Dittel, Prof. M.D. Matthias Rapp, M.D. Clinic of Orthopaedic Surgery, Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery Marienhospital Stuttgart – Academic Hospital of the University of Tübingen, Germany Böheimstraße 37, D-70199 Stuttgart
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Freedom of movement: Its value will be only recognized, when it is restricted Sir J. Charnley, 1957
Foreword
The scope and importance of hip fractures is almost incomprehensible. With a world wide incidence of close to 2 million cases per year, these fractures pose a daunting challenge to our ability to affect and treat this epidemic. The incidence of these fractures is predicted to grow to 6 million in 2050 including a near term baby boom spike. Add the hospital mortality rate of up to 4% and the one mortality of from 8% to 20% and the life ending effect of these fractures becomes a glaring reality. Of those who initially survive their fracture, about 50% never walk the same again. The social problem in the care of these elderly people is enormous. Of course, any real solution to this problem will include education, prevention, surgical and hospital treatment protocols, long term rehabilitative efforts, social adjustments and a generous contribution of money. This publication is primarily directed to the amplification of a new treatment modality that addresses only a fraction of the problem. It is, however, a quantum leap in the evolution of fixation with compression hip screws which are still the gold standard for surgical stabilization of pertrochanteric hip fractures. The Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) addresses the issue of adjustability of the fixation angle with appropriate mechanical strength characteristics that were lacking in its historical predecessors. It exhibits the unique ability to allow the surgeon to improve the reduction to a more advantageous valgus angle even after it is rigidly attached to the femur. This provides a more stable construct that will allow for a more successful recovery of the patient to their previous ambulatory life. In addition, the device is ideally suited for a new challenge in hip fractures, the MRI fracture. These are undisplaced fractures diagnosed almost entirely by magnetic resonance imaging. Since they are, by definition, undisplaced, the infinite adjustment of the femur neck angle of this device is the perfect solution. The variable angle system has been adapted for paediatric use. While useful for fracture fixation, it is an excellent option for fixation in the varus femoral osteotomy for dysplastic hips and subluxation in children with cerebral palsy. Further on the supracondylar version is very valuable for distal femur fractures. The supracondylar version with cable extraordinarily is suited for the devastating periprosthetic femoral fracture in the total hip patient. This situation, by the way, is a new epidemic! Washington D.C., Summer 2008
Walter Abendschein, M.D.
Preface
Much has been written about changes in medicine – mankind has gone through – changes which influenced the development of medical speciality decisively and surely many more changes will continue to take place in coming years. Obviously only some of the advances in the treatment of fractures and degenerative diseases of the human motor system may be regarded as milestones in the development of orthopaedic and trauma related surgery. Major advances have been made specially in the treatment of femur fractures over the last five decades. There is no doubt that one milestone in the middle of the last century can be attributed to Ernst Pohl, a genious engineer from Kiel, who developed the first sliding device for osteosynthesis of hip fractures. He opened a new area in the field of conventional hip joint reconstruction, consequently embettering and developing an implant system, enabling the patient to walk with full weight bearing at an early time, reducing complications decisively and functional deficits to a minimum. Our book deals with trauma surgery at the hip joint and it includes all kinds of fractures from the femoral neck area as well as the intertrochanteric and the subtrochanteric area. We know that there is no single method of treatment existing which could be used adequately for all type of fractures at the proximal femur. We believe on the other side that with the development of the DMS since 1993 and the experiences we have made personally with the new implant a spectrum of indications for its implantation has been opened which is broader than the spectrum of many other implants which are used for fracture fixation at the hip. This does not mean that we belong to the type of surgeons who claim that one could use a single implant for all type of fractures. It is obvious that the better option is to use the best implant for an existing problem. We have made the attempt to give a tailormade solution for treatment of joint localised fractures at the femur. Our experience over 15 years show that a great number of problems can be solved with the DMS under the special aspect of its unique adjustability and anatomical congruence. Every year publications about fractures at the proximal femur present new biomechanically embettered or descripted ideal implants. Mostly ideal fractures with ideal results are presented by expelling the results about problems, complications and implant failures. That’s why we have included in the book several chapters which are dedicated to problem cases and pathological fractures for which the surgical management is controversially discussed until our days. The book finally includes chapters about perioperative antibiotic therapy, thrombo-embolism prophylaxis, postoperative physiotherapy and osteoporosis management. We have written our book for colleagues who are working in trauma surgery and we hope that we have fulfilled the demands of objectivity. The reader should treat our attempt with leniency. Stuttgart, Summer 2008
Karl-Klaus Dittel Matthias Rapp
Dedicated to my surgical teachers
Ordinarius Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Schiefer Formerly Medical Director Neurosurgical University Clinic Erlangen Reproduced with kind permission from Stadtarchiv Erlangen
Prof. Dr. med. Friedrich Pampus Formerly Medical Director Neurosurgical Clinic Katharinenhospital Stuttgart Reproduced with kind permission from Pressefoto Kaufmann & Kaufmann, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. med. Erwin Kraft Formerly Medical Director Surgical Clinic Marienhospital Stuttgart Reproduced with kind permission from Public Relations Office, Marienhospital Stuttgart
Dedicated to my surgical teachers
Ordinarius Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. h.c. mult. Siegfried Weller Formerly Medical Director BGU and University Clinic of Traumatology Tübingen
In sincere gratitude The book is dedicated to Siegfried Weller at the occasion of his 80th birthday Karl-Klaus Dittel
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Acknowledgments
In the front line we have to notice to be indebted to the authors of this book who have spent their precious time for preparing, revising, updating, writing and overworking their chapters. We are thankful for their work which they have done unselfishly. They have prepared their contributions and manuscripts reliable in a very short time and we hope that our readers will give the attentiveness to their chapters they have earned. To the companies who have supported the printing we have to express our deep thank. Without their help the production of this book would not have been possible. ] ] ] ] ] ] ]
KLS Martin Pfizer Stryker Codon Carstens Aesculap Cardinal Health
– Thanks for their support in form of a contribution to the print costs. – Thanks for the support in form of an advertisement. – Thanks for the support concerning the necessary illustrations (Mrs. Rose Baumann) which had to be drawn for the book. ] Thanks to the Steinkopff Verlag crew (Mrs. Dr. med. Gertrud Volkert, Mrs. Petra Elster, Mr. Klemens Schwind) for their important advices and comments which influenced the outcome of the book positively. ] Thanks to our secretary Mrs. Reim who showed no tiredness in writing the texts repeatedly. ] Thanks to our colleagues who have stimulated us continuously with their ideas and mental contributions to do our very best by publishing. ] Thanks to the colleagues and friends Bud Abendschein, M.D., Washington D.C. USA and Don Lyddon, M.D., Rockford USA who did a thoroughly job by translating some of the german texts into english. We are very lucky that the printing of the book was possible based on an effective and trustworthy collaboration with all involved persons who have enabled the completion in time. Karl-Klaus Dittel Matthias Rapp
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Conventional hip surgery in traumatology 1
A century of experiments and experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The analysis of hip compression screws made of implant steel under static and limit load requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Radioanatomy 4
Abnormal radiographic anatomy of the proximal femur . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Fracture classification at the proximal femur 5
Statistical items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Surgical technique for fracture treatment 6
Operative procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The prognosis of the femur neck fracture after headpreserving osteosynthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Stabilization of intertrochanteric fractures with the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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10 The 31 A 3-3 fracture: an unstable problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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12 Application of the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) in the intertrochanteric osteotomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Treatment strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Indications for operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stabilization of the distal femur fracture with the DMS Postoperative management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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14 Pathologic fractures and osteolyses at the femur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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15 The use of an innovative femur neck prosthesis in case of complications after hip fracture surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 K.-K. Dittel
16 Exceptional indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Additional and adjuvant measurements and procedures 17 Systemic antibiotics in the prophylaxis and therapy of postoperative infections in patients with osteosynthesis of the femur . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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18 Prevention of venous thromboembolism in hip surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Individual risk factors of thrombosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thromboprophylactic measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Relevant side effects of subcutaneous pharmacological prophylaxis in hip surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] Forensic aspects of thromboprophylaxis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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19 Physiotherapy after surgery for proximal femur fractures . . . . . . . . . . .
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Authors
Abendschein, Walter, Prof. M.D. 35771 Snake Hill Road Middleburgh Virginia 20117, USA
Marquardt, Barbara, M.D. Traubergstraße 7 D-70186 Stuttgart
Ateschrang, Atesch, M.D. Clinic of Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Tübingen Schnarrenbergstraße 95 D-72076 Tübingen
Miller, Wolfgang, M.D. Martin-Luther-Straße 37 D-70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen
Decker-Burgard, Sabine, M.D. Zuckschwerdtstraße 29 D-65929 Frankfurt Dittel, Karl-Klaus, Prof., M.D. Clinic of Orthopaedic Surgery, Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery Marienhospital Stuttgart – Academic Hospital of the University of Tübingen, Germany Böheimstraße 37 D-70199 Stuttgart Felenda, Manfred-Raymund, M.D. Clinic of Orthopaedic Surgery, Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery Marienhospital Stuttgart – Academic Hospital of the University of Tübingen, Germany Böheimstraße 37 D-70199 Stuttgart Förster, Klaus K., Ph.D. Medical Consultant Osteoarthritis/Osteoporosis Igelweg 3 D-51766 Engelskirchen Janssen, Detlev, M.D. Med-i-Scene Concept GmbH Schlesierstraße 9 D-91085 Weisendorf
Peters, Klaus Michael, Prof. M.D. Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery and Osteology Rhein-Sieg-Klinik Höhenstraße 30 D-51588 Nümbrecht Plank, Rabea In der Schranne 13 D-70569 Stuttgart Rapp, Matthias, M.D. Clinic of Orthopaedic Surgery, Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery Marienhospital Stuttgart – Academic Hospital of the University of Tübingen, Germany Böheimstraße 37 D-70199 Stuttgart Uppenbrink, Stefan, M.D. Elsenhansstraße 13 D-70469 Stuttgart Zirn, Rainer Materialprüfungsanstalt Universität Stuttgart (MPA Stuttgart, Otto-Graf-Institut, FMPA) Pfaffenwaldring 32 D-70569 Stuttgart
Introduction K.-K. Dittel
The history of non-locking implants in fracture treatment began in 1944. It was the year when the mother of the engineer Ernst Pohl (1876– 1962) died after having suffered a proximal femur fracture which was treated conservatively over several weeks by traction and immobilization. From this moment the instrument maker Pohl worked to construct an implant which could allow stable fracture fixation, early mobilization and the best conditions for fracture healing in a rapid time frame. He is given credit for having developed the first non-locking connection between an intramedullary force carrier (lag screw) and a lateral anchoring plate (barrel plate) (Fig. 1). The principle consists in a dynamic connection between an intramedullary femur head screw and a femur plate that allows self compression (sliding link principle). This new concept made it possible to minimize many of the previous complications such as head perforation, pseudarthrosis and secondary displacement of fracture fragments.
Fig. 2. Dr. med. h.c. Ernst Pohl and the draft of the patent of Pohl system 1951 (acc. to Prof. Havemann).
Fig. 1. Pohl sliding cylinder – plate system.
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Fig. 3. The sliding link principle, realization of an ingenious idea. First publication abroad: A New Principle in the Treatment of Trochanteric Fractures of the Femur. W. Schumpelick und P. M. Jentzen (1955) In: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: Vol 37 A; 693.
His ideas led to the first patent on the 7th of December 1951 under the claim: “connecting implant for joint orientated fractures” (Fig. 2). The final acceptance of his revolutionary way to improve healing of hip fractures was difficult. It was delayed by antipathy and technical problems. The engineering and orthopaedic technique were developed and completed because of the dedication of this young craftsman. An era of especially fruitful cooperation between surgery and craftsmanship had started. The decisive influence of Pohl’s system is obvious in many of the devices used in modern traumatology. The revolutionary impact that this development would have on hip fracture treatment could not have been imagined at that time. The number of patients over a period of five decades and longer who have had a proximal femur fracture treated successfully with the sliding barrel principle is unknown. In the future, Pohl’s idea will provide for the survival of many more (Fig. 3). An optimized follow-up model was developed by the AO (1979) on the basis of Pohl’s system. While maintaining the “sliding barrel principle”, additional rotational stability is ensured by form-fit (i.e. by using a hexagonal screw instead of a round one) and flattening the barrel on two sides to provide corresponding sliding surfaces. Difficulties can be expected in patients with fractures at the coxal part of the femur when high age, osteoporosis and multimorbidity are together present. The type of fracture is considerably influenced by the grade of osteoporosis. Usually, quality and quantity are mutually ex-
cluding poles. However they must be brought to compatibility and respect the special problems of the fractures of the proximal femur in the elderly. The changing age structure of the population in Germany is leading to a disproportional increase of these fractures. According to statistical data from State and Private Health Insurance companies in Germany 150.000 persons per year who are older than 65 years suffer fractures in the hip joint area which subsequently require
Fig. 4. Angle adapted adjustment of the Dynamic Martin Screw.
Introduction
surgical treatment. Besides the form of fracture the choice of the implant may also imply relevant complications and influences the outcome and the ability of the single patient decisively. Basics for operative treatment of proximal and distal femur fractures: ] Clear surgical indication ] Short planning and preparation < 24 h ] Full weight bearing osteosynthesis ] Early mobilisation and physiotherapy In comprehensive form the book presents the usage of a meanwhile well installed implant (DMS) for osteosynthesis technique in the peritrochanteric region. The “double dynamic” stabilization (sliding tongue principle and angle adapted contoured fit) means a state of the art
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fracture treatment procedure. It is a convincing alternative to achieve a biological osteosynthesis at the femur. The system includes an infinitely adjustable, flexible angle, dynamic plate with a tubular distal part. The dynamic hip plate enables an intraoperative valgus correction of the head neck fragment by the worm gear mechanism before the compression of pertrochanteric surfaces of the fracture is achieved without a removal of the implant. Because the DMS system includes the ability to be adapted to any desired angle it is not only an individual implant but also a universal implant for use at the proximal femur as well for the stabilization of fractures in the distal part of the femur. By the angle adapted adjustment complications can be reduced because tension forces are transmitted to pressure forces in the fracture area (Fig. 4).
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Conventional hip surgery in traumatology
1 A century of experiments and experiences K.-K. Dittel
In the last 2000 years, life expectancy has increased from 25 years to about 80 years. The changing worldwide age demographics have led to an inordinate increase of proximal femur fractures (in addition to other fractures). Approximately 150.000 inhabitants of Germany over 65 years of age suffer from fractures at the hip joint requiring acute surgery every year. Besides the difficulties involved in treating such fractures adequately as well as the increase in the number of cases we are now seeing makes it a tremendous challenge to provide the highest quality of surgical care. Frequent concomitant and complicating conditions in hip fracture patients include advanced age, pronounced osteoporosis and multiple morbidity. Fracture type and subsequent selection of stabilization meth-
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od and implant are only some of the factors that relate to outcomes and complications. In addition to technical considerations, there is enormous economic impact and a requirement for coordination of peri-operative and post-operative care given in order to improve the rate of successful results (Fig. 1.1). An overview will be given about the development of operative treatment of fractures at the proximal femur during the last century. It is, however, not intended to focus every facet of the great variety of implants or therapeutic modalities. During the first period, which lasted from the beginning of the last century well into the 1940’s, treatment was limited to conservative, non-surgical care with or without traction and
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reduction. The well-known representatives of this period among others were Boehler, Goetze, Sauerbruch and Watson-Jones. The results in the period of conservative treatment of hip fractures led to the depressing experience that 75% of the patients died most commonly of fatal pulmonary embolism due to prolonged immobilization. It is not necessarily germane to discuss the causes of proximal femur fractures at this point but it should be mentioned that by well-known experience 30% result from senile osteoporosis leading to a micro-fracture that occurs before the patient falls down displacing the fracture. Pathological fractures caused by primary or secondary bone tumours are another increasingly apparent cause. A quantum leap in the treatment of proximal fractures of the femur took place when the use of a nail was introduced as a method of fracture fixation in 1931 by M. Smith Peterson. He published additional results on femur neck and intertrochanteric fracture treatment using a “triple lamellar pin” also named “tri-flanged-nail” which was shaped like a star in cross section. It was indeed the beginning of a new revolutionary era in fracture treatment. Not only the mortality rate could be cut down from 75% to 25% but also the fracture-healing rate could be reversed from the previous 25% to 75%. This was a decisive improvement of the results enabling the surgeon to offer his patients a method with acceptable operative results and improved prognosis for survival and the return to a reasonable quality of life. It has to be considered the first revolution in conventional surgery of the hip joint. After the successful introduction of the “triple lamellar pin” in the treatment of femur neck fractures, SmithPeterson subsequently expanded its application to pertrochanteric fractures. This finally ended the use of archaic materials such as wooden and ivory pegs to fix these fractures (Fig. 1.2). The second period lasted from the forties to the sixties and seventies using a variety of rigid implants. In the course of these decades, a variety of different implants had been developed, implanted and described for stabilization of fractures at the proximal femur. Most of them are no longer in use today. Using the lamellar pin as a starting point, Jewett’s team developed an implant by combining the pin with a plate that was attached to the lateral femoral cortex by means of screws. The implants designed by Thornton (1937), Jewett (1941) and McLaughlin
Fig. 1.2. Unstable fracture. An acute life threatening situation. Approximately 150,000 proximal femor fractures per year in Germany with a population of 84 millions people ] Intertrochanteric and supracondylar area ] Unstable situation ] Irregular form ] Immobilising disability
(1947) represent parallel developments. All these implants had a rigid connection between a pin fixed in the femur neck and a plate attached to the lateral side of the femur. However, there were a large number of complications especially in unstable fractures treated with these devices. Complication rates of up to 50% were reported. Other stabilization concepts as the intramedullary elastic round nails developed by Ender (1950) and Simon-Weidner (1956) also failed to produce satisfactory results. For over 20 years the stabilization with fixed nail-plate devices was standard and unstable pertrochanteric and subtrochanteric fractures continued to carry a high complication rate. Mostly leg length discrepancy and external rotation were the nontolerable complications often leading to a secondary supracondylar fracture or an additional damage of the ipsilateral knee joint. It is clear that procedures with such a high complication rate were not the final answer. The next decisive step in conventional hip surgery was the invention of the sliding device system based on the design of E. Pohl. It represents the second revolution, incorporating his idea by using the sliding link principle in order to minimize complications and to guarantee an early fracture healing by self-compression. The development phase of this new implant occurred between 1945 and 1950 (Fig. 1.3).
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The primary importance of this development was an implant consisting of a dynamic connection between an intramedullary load bearing element in the head/neck fragment (the lag screw) and an extramedullary element, the femur side plate. This construction made it possible to achieve dynamic self-compression when weight was put on the extremity. With the clinical application of the important invention of an auto compressive sliding implant a majority of the dreaded complications inherent in the use of rigid implants could be avoided. The basic concept of the implants lies in the fact that the permanent sliding principle in operation between the lag screw in the femur head and neck and the femur plate ensures the constant contact between the fracture fragments. All subsequent implants using the sliding mechanism were based on Pohl’s concept. After the introduction of the device the complication rate could be reduced to an average of between 10 and 15%. A parallel development was the connection between a screw fixed in the femur neck and the rigid plate fixed laterally to the femur. The angle plate of Müller and Schneider (1957) was another implant with a rigid connection and used with a cancellous lag screw known as the “AO-nail” (Fig. 1.4).
Fig. 1.4. 1st–2nd–3rd generation: Pohl – DHS – DMS
The third period ranges from the fifties to 2000 improving the operative procedures by different sliding devices and the ability to implant an angle-adaptive device. Representative companies of today are Biomet, Howmedica, Martin, Richards, Stryker, Synthes and Zimmer. In 1979 the co-operative for the study of fracture fixation and healing (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen AO) adapted Pohl’s sliding barrel plate principle in developing a follow up model. Milling the side of the screw which had been round until that time – and machining
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corresponding surfaces in the sliding cylinder improved its postoperative rotational stability. The modification of corresponding sliding surfaces represented a major improvement in the ability to reduce or eliminate postoperative displacement. In contrast to rigid implant, fracture healing can progress in accordance with the socalled “load bearing process”. This process, which involves the use of auto compressive sliding implants, can best be defined as “load sharing”. It is a fact that the complication rate for dynamic compression plates is five times lower than that of rigid plates. Complication rates between 4 and 11% to sliding screw systems and between 21 to 53% when rigid implants are described. Sliding devices with a fixed barrel/plate angle often do not provide an ideal fit with the lateral femur cortex. The rationale for developing a new implant for fixation and stabilization of proximal femur fractures is based on a number of complications occurring with the available implants and the initial positive clinical experience with the variable angle system. Using the Pohl-System as a starting point and maintaining the barrel plate principle, a new infinitely variable dynamic plate whose angle can be adjusted was developed to stabilize all fractures in the proximal femur region. The most common technical errors that lead to complications, especially in cases of severe osteoporosis, are failure to achieve stable reduction and less than ideal positioning of the lag screw. Both of these errors can lead to varus displacement, lag screw cut out and penetration as well as non-union of the fracture. The development of an implant, which guarantees congruence between the plate and the femur shaft, helps avoid complications such as secondary subtrochanteric fracture during reduction of osteoporotic fracture fragments and the displacement of the lag screw (cutting out through the femur neck or penetrating the head). A very important characteristic and advantage of the adjustable hip system is in the infinitely variable neck/shaft angle. This enables the surgeon to exactly and anatomically apply the side plate to the femur. Most importantly, however, it allows for improvement of the valgus alignment and reduction of the fracture even after the plate has been fixed by cortical screws to the femur shaft. This enables the surgeon to reduce and fix a proximal femur fracture in the most stable and biomechanical ideal position possible. This also allows the earliest possible mobilization of
Fig. 1.5. Extra- and intramedullary osteosynthesis in 31 A 2fractures (bilateral stabilisation).
the patient. Although the variable angle system adjusts infinitely between 90 and 155 degrees, it must be remembered that the lag screw in any dynamic hip fixation system will only slide and allow compression at angles of 130 degrees and higher! The system guarantees a double dynamic stabilization by the sliding link principle and the angle adapted plate. Hopefully, this can be regarded as the third revolution. Clinical advantages of the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) (inaugurated in 1993) include simplification of procedure and reduced operative time in addition to the ability to improve the reduction and compression after fracture fixation is complete. The adjustable hip plate is the only truly innovative implant for hip fracture surgery in the last two decades. Considering the usual learning curve involved in any new procedure, the complication rate of these devastating fractures can be greatly reduced. A true reduction in overall morbidity and mortality, however, requires proper coordination of personnel and facilities in all phases of treatment and rehabilitation after hip fracture (Figs. 1.5–1.7; algorithms with Figs. 1.8 a, b, 1.9 a, b).
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Today’s global used systems in Germany ] Different dynamic hip screw systems ? 75% (n = 20) ] Different proximal femur nail systems ? 25% (n = 10)
Extramedullary implant ] Advantages – Excellent primarily reduction – Bone saving procedure – Easy bone grafting – Best sliding condition ] Disadvantages – Uncortical stress shielding – Extended soft tissue trauma – Enlarged bending forces – Osteoporotic situation
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Fig. 1.6 a, b. Comparison of implant systems. Which is the better implant? What is optimal and preferable? a Extramedullary; b intramedullary
Intramedullary implant ] Advantages – Bicortical stress shielding – Reduced soft tissue trauma – Advanced stable situation ] Disadvantages – Intraoperative secondary fractures – Difficult fracture reduction – Enlarged damage of spongy bone
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The good and the ugly overall results are the same!
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Femur neck fractures Impacted type – not dislocated – primary prophylactic osteosynthesis for early functional therapy Not impacted type – dislocated (old patient, co-morbidity, bedridden, severely osteoporosis) ] not associated with coxarthrosis – indication for an extramedullary implant ] associated with coxarthrosis (fracture not sufficient for reposition, diminished bone quality) – indication for an endoprosthesis
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Fig. 1.8 a, b. Femur neck fracture AO 31 B 2
Pertrochanteric femur fractures Stable situation – not dislocated or fair dislocated fracture ] not associated with coxarthrosis – indication for an intra- or extramedullary implant ] associated with coxarthrosis – indication for an endoprosthesis Unstable situation – severely or extremely dislocated fracture ] not associated with coxarthrosis (good or fair bone quality, good reduction) – indication for an extra- or intramedullary implant ] associated with coxarthrosis (heavily reduced bone quality, not sufficiently reducible situation, bedridden) – indication for an endoprosthesis
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Fig. 1.9 a, b. Pertrochanteric femur fracture AO 31 A 3
Technical properties of the DMS
2 The analysis of hip compression screws made of implant steel under static and limit load requirements R. Zirn
The scope of the work The load capacity of rigid and adjustable built hip compression screws (HCS) made of implant steel X2 CrNiMo 18 15 3 (DIN 17443) were laboratory tested at room temperature and randomly examined. The HCS were also put through experiments with cyclic limit bending loads until failure. HCS implanted for the stabilization of a femoral fracture load requirement. The load level was determined by the transverse load F2 resulting from the hip load R as shown in Figure 2.1.
Methods Four rigid and adjustable hip compressions screws (HCS) are the test subjects. The rigid model with a nominal cross section of 19.1 ´ 6
Fig. 2.1. Physiological load of the hip joint.
mm has an angle of 135 8 (oscillation test) and 139 8 (static test, constant stress). The adjustable HCS (nominal shaft cross section 19.5 ´ 8.4 mm2) could be adjusted optionally in the region from about 85 8 to 135 8. The characteristic values of the implant steel material are determined by DIN 17443 and lie by Rp = 690 MPa for the elastic limit yield point and by Rm = 860–1110 MPa for the tensile strength.
] Test procedure The tests were performed on a servo hydraulic universal testing machine with a load of 7 kN. The load applied on the hip compression screw (HCS) was determined by using a load cell attached to a test cylinder. To determine the deflection of the HCS the cross head displacement of the test cylinder was used (stroke 20 mm). The parts to be tested were clamped on an adjustable angle bracket so that the transfer of force could be directed over the required angles. The test load was transmitted via a spherical cap (calotte). The distance between the break point and the axis of rotation of the angle between the shaft and the pipe was in each case 65 mm (Fig. 2.2 a, b). The HCS was tested taking into account the most frequent applications in two different installed situations at room temperature: Application under all available usages of the bolted joints (short settings free overlap 20 mm). Application without the above fixing possibility (long position, free overlap 40 mm) (Fig. 2.2 a, b). The static load tests were carried out within the chosen load levels. For the documentation of the yield characteristics especially those of the plastic strain, the HCS were completely un-
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loaded several times at different load levels. The tests were discontinued when a clear load drop or a very large deformation rate of the HCS appeared (deflection of 16 to 20 mm) and no appreciable load increase was noticeable. The cyclic test of the deflection limit load was controlled by sine wave loads with a test frequency 5 Hz to failure in the HCS. The maximum loads were experienced by a load ratio of upper load to lower load R = Fo/Fu = 0.01 between 600 N and 800 N (61.16 and 81.55 kg)1. The HCS were clamped at an angle of 135 8 (using the bolted fasteners with free overlap 20 mm according to Figure 2.2 a, b).
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] Test results The test results of the static tested HCS are given in Table 2.1. In addition to the dimensions of the parts to be tested and the geometric test conditions are the measured deflection data from loads of 588.6 N (= 60 kg) and 794.4 N (= 80 kg) and at the indicated maximum load Fmax. The resulting yield curves are shown in Figures 2.3–2.5. The test results are compared with previous analysis from [1] known for the development of a Dynamic Hip Screw-plate (DHS equals are rigid HCS) with long position. The rigid HCS varies considerably from the recorded procedure of the DHS-plate and reaches a maximum load of just 833.9 N (=85 kg) (Fig. 2.3), when compared to a comparable test configuration (long setting) with greater deflection. The shorter, more rigid setting (overlap 20 mm) in Figure 2.4 compared to the long
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Fig. 2.4. Rigid hip compression screw (1398).
clamped HCS leads to a maximum load of 1196.8 N (= 122 kg). The rigid HCS deformed essentially in the area of the bracket. Until the test was discontinued no fractures occurred when there was a deflection of 20 mm. The statically tested, adjustable HCS with the long setting with a maximum load of 1224 N (= 135 kg) and an accompanying deflection of approximately 9 mm clearly surpassed the DHSplate performance (Fig. 2.5).
The shaft which was more inflexible (cross section 13.45 ´ 8.43 mm2) had no noticeable plastic deformation. On this HCS model the plastic deformations were concentrated at the adjustable connection elements (worm gear, worm-wheel, fork-bolt connection) between the shaft and the case. Also on the adjustable HCS there was no fracture at the applied maximum deflection of about 14 mm. After reaching the maximum load the connection worm-gear and wormwheel could not transfer the power and slipped through.
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Table 2.2 indicates the critical load data and failure range which were established with cyclic tests of the HCS. With the adjustable HCS the incipient crack occurred at the critical limit load of 600 to 800 N between 64 000 and 326 000 cycles. In Figure 2.6 the measured critical load dependent on the applied limit loads are graphically illustrated in a double logarithmic scale. The results of the two tested HCS models (rigid and adjustable) thereby show only small variations. From the literature with the exception of the 600 N tested rigid HCS all values lie within
the given scattered band of the DHS-plate (open triangle) [1]. With the results of the literature it has to be mentioned that the crank mechanism used during lab testing can provide the real stress ratio of an implanted DHS-plate. However, at high loads this is only approximate. This leads to somewhat higher cycles because of suppressed yield effects. On the rigid model the crack always occurred in the shaft directly at the fixing point. The adjustable HCS by comparison always showed the crack in the area of the adjustable connection element.
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Conclusion On rigid and adjustable HCS from implant steel X2 CrNiMo 18 15 3 lab tests were made at room temperature under static and cyclic bending loads for different clamping situations. As stress value the shearing force component of the resulting load on the hip head was used. Under static load the adjustable HCS out-performed the known performance from the literature of the DHS-plate [1]. The rigid HCS model depending on the conditions clearly had inferior performance.
The results of the cyclic tests carried out under the same conditions for both settings are within the range of those results known in the literature for the DHS-plate.
Reference 1. Regazzoni P, Rüedi T, Winquist R (1985) The dynamic hip screw-implant system: laboratory tests with the DHS. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Fig. 3.1. Implants for Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS).
Fig. 3.2. DMS plates ] angle adjustment 95–1108 ] 24 mm and 34 mm tube length.
Fig. 3.3. DMS plates ] angle adjustment 95–1558 ] 24 and 34 mm tube length.
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Technical demands for extramedullary implants ] Sliding functionality ] Rotatory stability ] Congruent adjustability Fig. 3.4. DMS lag screws ] Length: 50 – 60 – 70 mm ] 80 – 90 – 100 – 110 mm
Fig. 3.5. Technical demands for extramedullary implants.
Fig. 3.6. Worm gear – pinion tongue mechanism.
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Fig. 3.7. Worm gear – pinion tongue mechanism.
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Fig. 3.8. Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS).
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Fig. 3.10. Old dogs – new tricks.
Fig. 3.11. 50 years of successful implantation of dynamic sliding implants: 1952 Pohl, 2002 DMS.
Length of sliding cylinder 35/45 mm Integrated plate angle 128 Plate diameter 18 mm Plate thickness 6 mm
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Infinitely variable neck/shaft angle Subsequent intraoperative axis correction Individual patient specific shaft congruence Applicable to proximal and distal femur fractures ] Double-dynamic stabilization – sliding link principle – angle-adapted contoured fit
Fig. 3.12. Main characteristics of the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS)
] Advantages of Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) ] Simplification of procedure and reduced operative time ] Infinitely adjustable to any neck/shaft angle ] Ability to achieve and improve valgus reduction and compression after fracture fixation is complete Fig. 3.13. Advantages of Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS).
] Implant congruence by anatomical adjustment to reduce two major complications ] Secondary intraoperative fracture (during reposition of osteoporotic bone) ] Dislocation of the supporting screw (cutting out of the head-neck fragment) Fig. 3.14. Implant congruence by anatomical adjustment.
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Ideal anatomical cortical congruency
Fig. 3.15. Problems of sliding tongue systems.
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Fig. 3.17. Production drawing Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS), complete.
Fig. 3.18. Production drawing Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS), standard plate.
Fig. 3.19. Production drawing Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS), supporting screw.
Fig. 3.20. Production drawing Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS), compression screw.
Radioanatomy
4 Abnormal radiographic anatomy of the proximal femur B. Marquardt
Fractures of the proximal femur are typically injuries of later life. Because of their greater risk of osteoporosis women are much more frequently affected than men [1]. They are often due to negligible trauma, a fall on the hip combined with torsion. Depending on the direction of the force different subcapital fractures may occur among the three trabecular groups of the head and neck (Fig. 4.1). Figure 4.2 shows types of fractures of the proximal femur according to Haeuser [2]. Another classification of subcapital fractures by Garden that is still widely used is based on the displacement of the femoral head before reduction: 1) Incomplete fracture, with abduction or compression 2) Complete fracture, without displacement 3) Complete fracture, with partial displacement 4) Complete fracture, with total displacement. Figure 4.3 shows the groups of trabeculae in the hip joint region. Three groups can be identified in the proximal femoral portion. The trabeculae that are primarily under tensile stress curve medially below the greater trochanter to the fem-
Fig. 4.1. MRT: T-1 weighted pelvic survey (a) and magnified view of the normal right hip joint, T-1 weighted (b).
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oral head, sparing the fovea capitis. The medial, main trabeculae are under stress from pressure, and form a second, triangular group which extends from the cortex at the level of the lesser trochanter to the femoral head. They represent a continuation of the acetabular trabeculae. The secondary, lateral stress trabeculae stretch peritrochanterically from the calcar femorale and the lesser trochanter to the greater trochanter, by-passing Ward’s triangle [8]. The widely used classification of fracture of the medial femoral neck by Pauwels is based on the angle between the fracture line and the horizontal, and differentiates between Pauwels I, II and III fractures (Fig. 4.4). Figure 4.5 shows a fracture of the medial femoral neck of the Pauwels I type pre- and post-operatively. Figure 4.6 shows a medial femoral neck fracture of the Pauwels II type (angle less than 70 degrees). Figure 4.7 shows a Pauwels III fracture. The angle between horizontal and fracture line is more than 70 degrees. All three fracture types are extra-articular in nature [12]. The partially articular as well as the completely intraarticular fractures with luxation of the femoral head (Pipkin type I to type IV) are fractures which require great force and are
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Fig. 4.2. Fractures of the proximal femur (Haeuser Classification). 1 medial femur neck fracture; 2 lateral femur neck fracture; 3 pertrochanteric femur fracture; 4 reversed pertrochanteric femur fracture; 5 subtrochanteric femur fracture
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Fig. 4.6 a, b. Medial femoral neck fracture, type Pauwels II, axial view of the right hip joint (a), and survey film of the pelvis (b).
therefore seen more in younger and middleaged patients. Because of the severe trauma they are often associated with fractures of the lower extremity on the same side, and also with thoracic and with skull and cerebral trauma [13, 14]. As a late sequel, due to the blood supply of the cortical rim of the femoral head through the artery in the lig. teres, a worrisome post-traumatic necrosis of the femoral head may develop [4, 9, 16].
Figure 4.8 shows a three-dimensional CT reconstruction of a fracture of the medial femoral neck. Figure 4.9 shows the less frequent fracture of the lateral femoral neck causing superior displacement of the trochanter, before and after reduction with internal fixation. This type of fracture is seen predominantly in young people. Due to the arterial vascular supply it has less of a tendency to develop a post-traumatic necrosis than the fractures of the medial femoral neck.
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Fig. 4.7. Medial femoral neck fracture, type Pauwels III.
Fig. 4.8. Lateral femoral neck fracture, axial view of the right hip joint with caudal tilt of the femoral head and superior displacement of the trochanter.
The pertrochanteric and the rare “reversed” pertrochanteric fractures are also fractures that involve the proximal femur. The fracture line of the so-called “reversed” pertrochanteric fracture crosses obliquely from the lesser trochanter through the shaft to the cortex on the opposite side. The usual pertrochanteric fracture originates generally in the lesser trochanteric region and runs obliquely cranial to the greater trochanter [5]. The lateral cortex is intact, the medial cortex shows a simple fracture (Fig. 4.10). Figure 4.11 shows another adduction fracture, with compression, and with avulsion of the lesser trochanter. Other fractures of the trochanteric region, pertrochanteric and comminuted, have one or more intermediate fragments, and run distally below the lesser trochanter (Fig. 4.12). A displaced, pertrochanteric, comminuted femoral fracture with avulsion of the lesser trochanter is shown in 3D-reconstruction in Figure 4.13. The various different projections, ventral, dorsal, and especially the rotation views, demonstrate the true extent of fracture comminution and displacement too much greater advantage than conventional radiographic views would.
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Figure 4.14, finally, shows a fracture with multiple medial cortical breaks and an intact lateral cortex. An additional fragment is seen in dorso-cranial location. Intertrochanteric fractures can be simple, oblique-simple, transverse or comminute. An example of a 3D-CT reconstruction of a comminute fracture is presented in Figure 4.15 which shows destruction of the lateral and medial cortex. A conventional X-ray in Figure 4.16 shows a
so-called “reversed” pertrochanteric femoral fracture with breaks in the lateral and medial cortex, and an additional lateral chip fragment. Figure 4.17 shows a severely comminuted and displaced fracture. Other classifications of pertrochanteric fractures of the femur simply list two-piece, threepiece, four-piece and multi-fragmented fractures, or the division by Boyd-Griffin, into type I to IV. Also in use is the division by Evans into
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Fig. 4.16. “Reversed” pertrochanteric femoral fracture with fractured lateral and medial cortex, and additional avulsion of a small fragment in the region of and lateral to the lesser trochanter.
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coronal reconstruction in multiplanar mode (b). Axial sections of the subtrochanteric fracture and several avulsed fragments (c, d).
undisplaced fractures; displacement of the inner cortex of both fragments, reduction possible; displacement in the region of the calcar femorale, not reducible; and finally comminution of the calcar femorale. About 40 to 45% of fractures of the proximal femur represent pertrochanteric fractures [1, 7, 8]. But because of the good blood supply of the spongy pertrochanteric fractures seldom develop the feared post-op complications of pseudarthrosis or necrosis of the femoral head, in contrast to the fractures of the medial femoral neck. These fractures are frequently associated, however, with more complex injuries, including extensive soft tissue damage. The subtrochanteric femoral fractures involve again younger patients, and a high percentage suffers from multiple traumas. Combined skull and cerebral, thoracic and pelvic injuries are frequent [3, 6, 10, 11, 16]. The fracture line runs from the greater trochanter and 5 cm distal to it. The lesser trochanter may be displaced. Besides oblique and transverse fractures there may
be torsion and comminuted fractures with multiple fragments (Figs. 4.18–4.20). Also to be mentioned among the pathological radiographic pictures of the proximal femur are metastases of the femoral head and neck [15]. Figure 4.21 a shows a survey film of the pelvis with osteolytic metastases of a plasmocytoma in the iliac wings, both femoral necks, and especially in the left subtrochanteric region. Postoperative follow-up after internal fixation with dynamic martin screw is shown in Figure 4.21 b. Another mixed metastatic process is seen in Figure 4.22 in a patient with carcinoma of the breast. The massive mixed metastatic involvement with a predominantly lytic component presents a static hazard. The diffuse metastatic spread is seen in the total body bone scan in anterior and posterior projection. Figure 4.23 shows diffuse metastatic disease of the proximal femur, including the acetabulum and the ischial bone, in a patient with prostatic cancer. This case, too, will present a static risk during the further course of the disease.
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excellent visualization of the dislocation by more than shaft’s width (c), and view with 608 caudo-cranial angulation and 608 external rotation.
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For completeness sake inflammatory changes of the proximal femur should be included, due to post-operative inflammatory complications (Fig. 4.24), and changes of the femoral head due to degenerative osteoarthritis of the hip joint. In these latter cases the radiographic findings frequently do not correlate with the clinical symptoms. Chief radiological signs of degenerative hip joint changes are narrowing of the joint space due to thinning of the articular cartilage, subchondral sclerosis due to repair processes, osteophyte formation as a result of repair in nonweigthbearing, chiefly peripheral places, and the formation of subchondral cysts or pseudocysts due to bone contusions that cause microfractures and the leakage of synovial fluid into the altered cancellous bone (Fig. 4.25). Conventional X-rays show the different forms of destruction (Fig. 4.26).
Fig. 4.24. Right hip joint, a.p. view. Post-op inflammatory destruction of the femoral head with implant of Palacos beads, and additional pertrochanteric femoral fracture. Insertion of five wire loops around a longitudinal fissure in the proximal femur.
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Fig. 4.27 a, b. Total body bone scan (a) in a case of marked degenerative arthritis of the left hip joint, and triple-phase
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Fig. 4.28. MR tomography of the pelvis: spin echo, T-1, with evidence of decreased signal in the region of the right femoral head due to microfractures in degenerative hip joint disease, and turbo-spin ehcho, T-2 weighted sequence, which now shows evidence of signal increase in the area of the multiple microfractures of the right femoral head.
In every instance where the radiographic findings are uncertain, a bone scan should be obtained for early diagnosis, including a triplephase skeletal study with separate views of the involved joint (Fig. 4.27). Figure 4.28 a, b show MR studies of a patient with right sided necrosis and microfractures of the femoral head. The coronal, T-1-weighted spin-echo view of the fracture area shows a diminished signal. A distinct signal increase is seen in the T-2-weighted coronal sequence.
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Surgical technique for fracture treatment
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The osteosynthetic supply potentials with the DMS are not restricted to the traditional indicative areas in the pertrochanteric region. Within the framework of the standard indications, all intertrochanteric femur fractures (type 31 A 1.1-3 and 32 A 2.1-3) can be ideally treated by means of the DMS. After the application of the supporting screw, the valgisation angle can be adjusted to the required angular degree according to the specific requirements of each patient with an intact lateral corticalis by the means of an adjustable worm gear. Thus additional infractions and fractures in the trochanteric or subtrochanteric area can be avoided. Relevant unstable fractures of the AO-type 31 A 3.1-3 can also be ideally stabilised through the DMS. Additional implants are usually unnecessary, as the implant, after intraoperative fracture fixation, allows for a subsequent valgisation of the head-neck fragment without the need to dismantle it again. Therefore, the headneck fragment can be adjusted to a larger valgus position without re-applying or re-changing the supporting screw. The implant has also demonstrated its value in fractures with subtrochanteric involvement and simultaneous occurrence of a zone of fragments in the trochanter major. This particularly applies for the unstable intertrochanteric “reversed” fractures, in which the major fracture line runs from the proximal-medial area to the distal-lateral area. Within the scope of special indications, 1hole and 2-hole plates are available for stabilising medial femoral neck fractures. In dislocated adduction fractures of type 3, according to Pauwels, a simultaneous intratrochanteric valgus osteotomy, during which the desired valgus effect can be facilitated by the angle adaptable, dynamic sliding device, can be performed by means of the implant. Compression osteosynthesis is possible in the pertrochanteric area as well as in medial femoral neck fractures. In this
Fig. 6.1. Picture of accident: case example of a pertrochanteric femoral fracture, right side.
procedure, the sliding link principle in medial femoral neck fractures is preserved under partial weight bearing. The DMS is suitable as special indication in individual cases even for stabilising subtrochanteric femur fractures in which the trochanteric area is intact. The sliding link principle, however, is neutralized in this case. In these cases, the angle-adaptive accuracy in fitting after insertion of the supporting screw can be applied with the same beneficial effect. Within the framework of further special indications, there is the possibility of an adequate stabilisation of supracondylar femur areas. In this localisation, it can be applied as an alternative to the dynamic condylar screw (DCS). In long torsion fractures, the sliding link principle is ensured even in the supracondylar femur area upon weight bearing. The supracondylar femur fractures (see separate chapter), which have been stabilised up till now in this manner similarly showed a fast bone consolidation as in the traditional pertrochanteric area.
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Surgical technique ] Basic equipment For implantation, an intra-operational X-ray possibility (C-sheet with image intensifier) in the operating theatre is required. An extension table would be desirable. The standard instruments are used. The prerequisite is a correct operation technique.
] Reposition and access The patient is put on an extension table on his back. If there is no extension table, a surgical table with an X-ray translucent plate can also be used. Ideally, the X-ray C-sheet will be placed between the patient’s legs so that the Csheet can be left in this position during the operation and an intraoperative roentgenization on the a.p.-view as well as on the axial view is possible through wheeling round the C-sheet. The monitor will be placed on the right-hand or left-hand side of the operator. Repositioning of the fracture can be performed on the open or closed leg in the extension table. As a rule, even severely dislocated fractures can be re-set by axial pulling and simultaneous abduction and inward rotation of the respective leg. The repositioning result is controlled on the a.p. view and on the axial view by image converter control. For sterile covering of the operation area, tetrahedron-roof cling film is used. Through its flexibility, this simple and fast method of covering facilitates the wheeling round of the roentgen C-sheets at any time. The cling film is mounted onto the operating area by an adhesive tape. Suckers and the diathermy can be fixed onto the operating area by Velcro fastenings. Below the operating area, a collecting sack for blood and rising liquid is firmly installed. As an access point, we use the lateral access according to Bauer, whereby the longitudinal incision of the skin reaches from just below the trochanter major to the distal one. After incision of the fascia of the M. tensor fasciae lata and the fascia propria of the M. vastus lateralis, we obtain trans-muscular access via the M. vastus lateralis access to the femur corticalis and the trochanter major. As an alternative, the “dorsal mailbox” access can be used, during
Fig. 6.2. Lateral surgical approach according to Bauer.
which the M. vastus lateralis is shifted in the ventral direction. If necessary, the muscle base at the trochanter major can be removed somewhat. The femur shaft is presented with the raspatory. In order to avoid superfluous pulling on the muscle by using the Hohmann hook, the skin incision may not be located too far ventrally. In order to not additionally traumatize the fracture area, the fracture is not laid open. If necessary, the repositioning can also be performed on the open leg. As an alternative, the repositioning result can be temporarily secured by 1 or 2 Kirschner wires.
] Placing of the guide wire For correct placing of the guiding wire, the antetorsion of the neck femur is determined with a Kirschner wire, and the reinforced Kirschner wire is – under the supervision of the image converter control – moved ventrally
Fig. 6.3. Countersink of the cortical bone of the femur with the 4.5-mm drill bit.
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Fig. 6.4. Positioning of the guide wire with the aiming device, which can be adjusted between 1358 and 1508.
Fig. 6.6. Alternatively the guide wire can also be inserted freehand using suitable tissue protection sleeve.
Fig. 6.5. Insertion of the guide wire under image intensifier control in such a way that it lies centrally in the mid-axis of the cortical substance of the femoral head.
Fig. 6.7. Check of the position of the guide wire on the image intensifier.
over the neck of the femur in the direction of the femur base. The optimum position of the Kirschner wire is 1 cm subcortical. Afterwards, the femur corticalis is centred on the predetermined entrance place below the trochanter majors by means of a 4.5 drill and is subsequently bored with a headspace mill. The guiding wire is screwed into the femur head parallel to the Kirschner wire to a spot immediately below the cartilage, using the drilling machine and under image converter control. During the entire osteosynthesis, the guiding wire remains in its place. At the last centimetre of the drilling distance, drilling must be executed slowly in order to avoid a perforation of the femur corticalis.
Fig. 6.8. Once the guide wire has been positioned correctly, its length can be directly read off on the scale of the measuring sleeve.
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Fig. 6.9. After setting the DMS three-step drill to a value of –10 mm, it is drilled into the bone along the guide wire until the cone of the third stage has fully entered the lateral cortex.
Fig. 6.11. Optionally, using the centering sleeve and the Thandle, the tap is screwed in as far as 10 mm away from the cortical bone. The depth of the thread can be read off from the mark on the centering sleeve.
Fig. 6.10. Image converter check when running the threestep drill along the positioned guide wire.
Fig. 6.12. The length of the lag screw is identical with the set drilling depth. To implant the lag screw, it is first fitted to the screwdriver and the connection piece and is then screwed in using the safety inserter, the 11 mm centering sleeve and the T-handle.
On a.p. view as well as on axial view, the guiding wire must lie centrally in the neck of the femur. The guiding wire is controlled and corrected by means of the image converter until its position is correct. The placing procedure is the crucial phase of the operation. If the guiding wire is placed correctly, technical problems will rarely occur during the following operation. Optionally, the target device with handle can be used for reaching angle (1358, 1408, 1458 and 1508), which has previously been chosen according to the roentgenogram. It can be used
right-handed as well as left-handed. Connection to the handle is executed according to the principle screw on hole.
] Measurement of lengths on the guide wire The length is determined by a measuring tube. The measured value can be read directly from this. The antetorsion Kirschner wire is removed as soon as the guiding wire reaches its correct position.
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Fig. 6.13. Where the bone is hard, the lag screw is inserted up to the first mark on the screwdriver. In osteoporotic bone it is inserted up to the last mark.
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Fig. 6.16. After the plate is in the correct position relative to the femoral axis, it is fixed in place with the worm gear, either in valgisation or varisation.
] Drilling of the head-neck fragment
Fig. 6.14. Once the lag screw has been positioned correctly, the handle with the safety inserter and the 11 mm centering sleeve can be removed. Now the plate of correct length can be passed over the screwdriver onto the lag screw.
The head-neck fragment is bored by means of a three-step combo drill to 10 mm. For this purpose, it is pre-set to the measured value of minus 10 mm. The pre-set value is the last figure on the fixed drill, which can be seen. It is important that the drill snaps during shifting. Then, it can be arrested with little force by turning the binding nut. The cone of the third stage of the three-step combo drill shall enter the corticalis at the lateral femur. If the guiding wire is incidentally retracted during the boring procedure, it must be absolutely re-entered. This procedure can be easily performed by means of a centre tube and reversed DMS supporting screw. If the guiding wire is not replaced correctly, there is the risk that the supporting screw is put into an incorrect position, particularly in osteoporotic bones.
] Cutting of a thread In severe spongiosa, pre-cutting of the thread is necessary. For this procedure, a threading tap with handle and a centre tube are used. The thread shall be cut as far as 10 mm in front of the femur head corticalis. The depth of the thread can be read directly from the mark of the centre tube. Fig. 6.15. If the plate is not parallel to the longitudinal axis of the femur, the T-handle can be applied again in order to advance the screw further by turning it clockwise.
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Fig. 6.17. Using the screwdriver the worm gear is operated until the plate is placed exactly on the femur.
Fig. 6.20. For the plate hole located directly underneath the worm gear, a 6.5 mm spongiosa screw can also be used for fixation of the trochanter minor.
Fig. 6.18. To ensure that the plate is sitting firmly, the DMS driver is used to make a precision adjustment to the DMS plate on the femur.
Fig. 6.21. In a last step, the fracture is compressed by inserting the DMS lag screw. In osteoporotic bone, compression paths of up to 6 mm can occur.
] Screwing in of the supporting screw
Fig. 6.19. To fix the plate in position, 4.5 mm cortical screws are used.
The length of the supporting screw is chosen according to the rule measured value minus 10 mm. With intermediate values, a longer screw must be taken. Screwdriver, supporting screw, tie rod, centre tube and handle are assembled. The set of instruments is shifted over the guiding wire, and the centre tube adapted in the bore. The supporting screw can now be screwed in. It is screwed into solid bone as far as the first check mark of the screwdriver at the measured mark of the centre tube. In osteoporotic bone, the screwing in of the supporting screw is executed deeper, as far as the last check mark. Due to the hexagonal cross section, the handle shall be parallel to the femur shaft.
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Fig. 6.22. Intraoperative x-ray during insertion of the lag screw prior to compressing the fracture.
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Fig. 6.23. Intraoperative x-ray during insertion of the lag screw with the fracture compressed.
] Assembly of the sliding barrel plate After the removal of the handle and centre tube, the sliding barrel plate can be shifted on the supporting screw with a screwdriver. If the sliding barrel plate does not lie parallel to the longitudinal axis of the femur, the handle can be applied once more, and the supporting screw can be retightened.
] Adjustment of the sliding barrel plate The sliding barrel plate is adjusted exactly at an angle to the femur. One full turn of the screwdriver results in an angular magnification of 7.58. Depending on the direction of rotation, the worm thread of the sliding barrel plate can result in valgisation or varisation. After the removal of the screwdriver and tie rod, the sliding barrel plate is re-adjusted by means of the inserted bar.
] Fixing the sliding barrel plate It is recommended that you first occupy the most distal bore. To fix the trochanter minor, a 6.5 mm spongiosa screw can be diagonally screwed into the top bore of the sliding barrel plate. As a rule, however, the trochanter minor will not be re-fixed. In fractures in the subtrochanteric area, compression of the fracture area can be achieved by utilisation of the eccentric drill sleeve or plate tensor.
Fig. 6.24. Postoperative x-ray check.
] Fracture compression As a final step, the fracture is compressed step by step by manually inserting and carefully tightening the traction screw. In the osteoporotic bone, compression distances up to 6 mm can occur. The traction screw should be removed after compression. The patient’s musculature and weight exercise a constant compression on the fracture. If the traction screw is not removed, it will be shifted and can cause irritations upon further sintering it together.
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After complete assembly of the sliding barrel plate, a final screening with the image converter is performed in order to control the position of the fracture and the fracture fixation. Subsequently, the femur soft tissue is reconstructed layer by layer through the insertion of one or two deep and one superficial drainages and atraumatic cutaneous sutures.
The patients will be mobilised in the 1st postoperative day. As a rule, full weight bearing is possible from the 2nd postoperative day onwards. In the case of unstable fractures, in which the postero-medial support is missing, a controlled sintering together of the fracture – so-called “telescoping” – occurs, until a new osseous support will be achieved. In particular, this immediate mobilisation is crucial in order to avoid complications through long-term immobilisation in elderly patients. In comparison with a definitive inability to walk due to general muscular asthenia after long-term immobility, contraction of leg muscles as a consequence of the “telescoping” is tolerable.
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7 The prognosis of the femur neck fracture after headpreserving osteosynthesis A. Ateschrang
] To what degree does the fracture displacement grade influence the healing process? ] Should elderly people be treated primarily with an endoprosthesis or by osteosynthesis? ] What is the influence of the D. M. S. on the therapeutic decision making process?
Introduction Ever since its description by Cooper in 1822 as the “unsolved and even unsolvable fracture” the treatment of femur neck fractures has posed a dilemma for treating surgeons. The treatment options include resection of the head-neck fragment followed by replacement arthroplasty or open reduction and internal fixation to preserve the femoral head. It is this latter surgical option that is the subject of this analysis. The fixation devices used are the AO dynamic hip screw (DHS), the dynamic adjustable screw system and cannulated screws. Because of the anatomy of the blood supply to the head of the femur and the biomechanics of the hip, there are major complications associated with these fractures. They include avascular necrosis of the femoral head, pseudoarthrosis of the neck fracture and post-traumatic osteoarthritis of the hip. While non-union rates are lower these days, the incidence of avascular necrosis is still between 10 to 30 percent. This chapter deals with the prognosis of femur neck fractures in general as well as the results using the variable angle hip system. The following points are addressed: ] What is the prognosis of femur neck fractures after fracture fixation?
Method and results Between the period 01/1990 till 12/1996 489 patients with a femur neck fracture were treated in the Department of Trauma of the Marienhospital in Stuttgart. 102 cases have been treated with reduction and fixation using the following implants: 5 AO compression screw osteosynthesis, 34 dynamic hip screws (DHS) and 63 cases of the D. M. S. The remaining 387 cases were treated by implanting a total hip replacement. The prerequisite for a head preserving treatment was a normal or nearly normal hip joint. There were no age limits. At the time of follow up 20 patients were already deceased. 3 of them developed avascular necrosis. In 11 cases the follow up period was short. 71 patients could be contacted personally. In 14 cases a total hip replacement was already implanted. The remaining 57 patients were examined.
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backing out. 2 patients fell in the rehabilitation clinic sustaining injuries that required an implantation of an endoprosthesis. In one more case the compression screw had to be replaced by a DMS in a patient who ignored the requirement of partial weight bearing. Late complications were classified as occurring after 6 weeks. In the DMS-group there was one cervicoacetabular impingement and one case of late infection. All in all there was no case of pseudoarthrosis or implant complications.
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In the DHS group (after 5–8 years of observation) were 6 (17.6%) and in the DMS group (after 3–5 years) 11 cases (17.2%) of aseptic femur head necrosis. The Log-Rank-Test showed statistically non-significant differences between both groups (p = 0.3775, diagram 8 and 9). Irrespective of the implant groups the Garden 1 & 2 fractures had 7 (11.5%) and the Garden 3 & 4 fractures had 9 (23.1%) cases of femur head necrosis (Fig. 7.10). Then the incidence of the femur head necrosis was analysed separately for the implant groups (DMS & DHS) as well as for Garden 1 & 2 versus 3 & 4 fractures with the following results (Fig. 7.10): ] DHS with G 1 & 2 (n = 20) had 2 cases (10%) of head necrosis after 5–8 years (observation). ] DHS with G 3 & 4 (n = 14) had 4 cases (28.6%) of head necrosis after 5–8 years (observation). ] DHS with G 1 & 2 (n = 38) had 5 cases (13.2%) of head necrosis after 3–5 years (observation). ] DHS with G 3 & 4 (n = 24) had 5 cases (20%) of head necrosis after 3–5 years (observation).
Discussion There is general agreement to treat young people with a head-preserving regime if a reduction of femur head is possible. In the older population, the main goal of treatment is early mobilisation. Kuentscher described the urgency of operative treatment of these fractures. The biological age and the likelihood of a possible acetabular protrusion must be taken into the account. Good results are reported with osteosynthesis by other studies. The rate of avascular necrosis of 17% is comparable to other studies. The main causes of the head necrosis are the special anatomy, the blood supply and the resulting biomechanics. Other aspects are the time lapse before reduction and operation, the quality of reduction as well as the implant choice and position in situ. Reduction should be as exact as possible so that the fracture surface is in proper contact and compression. Performing the operation in
the first hours probably reduces the rate of avascular necrosis. The flexibility of the DMS system allows for anatomic reduction a rigid fixation with the same sliding compression mechanism as all other devices as well as its unique ability to allow the surgeon to improve the valgus reduction after cortical fixation is applied. The valgus reduction provides a stable construct for fracture compression and healing. It also positions the head of the femur in the non-spherical acetabulum in a manner that can reduce the incidence of post traumatic osteoarthritis. The incidence of avascular necrosis with DHS and DMS in this study is 17.6% and 17.2%. Since most of the avascular necrosis occurs in the first 3 years the majority of the cases are contained in this study. Individual cases occur up to 6 years. For Garden 1 & 2 fractures was the incidence 11.5% and for Garden 3 & 4 23.1%. Using the DHS the necrosis rate was 10% for Garden 1 & 2 fractures and 28.6% for Garden 3 & 4 fractures. Using the DMS the incidence was 13.2% for Garden 1 & 2 fractures and 20.8% for Garden 3 & 4 fractures. The statistical analysis by the Log-Rank-Test showed non-significant differences between the DHS and DMS in this constellation of the case numbers 34 (DHS) and 63 (DMS).
Conclusions The prognosis of the femur neck fracture is still mainly determined by the incidence of the femur head necrosis. The necrosis rates in this study are ranging between 10 to almost 30% within 5 to 8 years. The pseudoarthrosis incidence was 0% using the DHS and DMS in this study. The prognosis connection of the Garden fracture classification and the incidence of the femur head necrosis have been confirmed. The good results justify a primary head preserving reduction and fixation of these fractures even in elderly patients. The DMS has all the attributes of conventional devices and in addition has its unique advantage in the ability to improve valgus reduction after implantation and cortical fixation.
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Case 7.1 Medial femur neck fracture, Ao-classification 31 B 3-3 Monitoring procedure
Fig. 7.1.1. Day of accident.
Fig. 7.1.2. Primary stabilization by compression screw in the proximal third of the neck of the femur.
Fig. 7.1.3. Positioning of the guide wire with the aiming device (135 to 1508).
Fig. 7.1.4. Use of the three step drill along the guide wire.
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Fig. 7.1.5. Positioning of the lag screw with the hand drill.
Fig. 7.1.6. Precision adjustment of the DMS plate by means of the worm gear mechanism in congruence to the lateral cortical bone of the femur.
Fig. 7.1.7. Finishing the adjustment in correct anatomic position.
Fig. 7.1.8. 2-screw fixation of the adjusted plate against the subtrochanteric femur.
Fig. 7.1.9. Use of the compression screw to give pressure on the fracture surface.
Fig. 7.1.10. Completed osteosynthesis and stabilization of the femur neck fracture.
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41 years old male
Femur neck fracture, AO classification 31 B 2-3 Stable impacted valgus positioned subcapital fracture Osteosynthesis by 1-hole DMS with additional intertrochanterie lag screw
Fig. 7.2.1 Day of accident.
Fig. 7.2.2 Pop. x-ray check.
Fig. 7.2.3 a. X-ray check after 2 weeks, a.p.-view.
Fig. 7.2.3 b. X-ray check after 2 weeks, axial view.
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Fig. 7.2.4 a. Consolidated fracture, 4 months postoperative, ap view.
Fig. 7.2.4 b. Consolidated fracture, 4 months postoperative, axial view.
Fig. 7.2.5. X-ray check after 8 months.
Fig. 7.2.6. X-ray check after 6 years.
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Case 8.1
85 years old female
Femur neck fracture, AO classification 31 B 1-2 Stable impacted valgus positioned subcapital fracture Osteosynthesis by 3-hole intermediate 2/3 DMS
Fig. 8.1.1. Day of accident.
Fig. 8.1.2 a. X-ray check after 2 weeks, ap view.
Fig. 8.1.2 b. X-ray check after 2 weeks axial view.
Fig. 8.1.3. Full weight bearing situation with solidly consolidation 6 months pop.
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65 years old female
Pathological femur neck neck fracture, AO classification 31 B 1-3 Stable impacted subcapital fracture Osteosynthesis by 3-hole intermediate 2/3 DMS
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Fig. 8.2.1. Day of accident.
Fig. 8.2.2. Preoperative NMR.
Fig. 8.2.3. Pop. X-ray check.
Fig. 8.2.4. X-ray check after 3 months.
9 Stabilization of intertrochanteric fractures with the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) M. Rapp
Pertrochanteric femur fractures do usually heal unless the patient dies prematurely of other complications. Frequent concomitant factors of problems in proximal femur fracture patients are advanced age, pronounced osteoporosis and multiple morbidities. Fracture type and subsequent selection of stabilisation method and implant may also represent relevant factors in the outcome. On the basis of these specific problems in patients with proximal femur fractures, any therapeutic concept must aim to harmonize the type of fracture treatment with the severity of fracture occurring. The aim of each osteosynthesis must be the achievement of full weight bearing capacity. The operation should be performed with minimal stress for the patient, who suffers mostly from multimorbidity. Operation technique ought to be minimally invasive. In 1993, Stürmer defined requirements for an ideal implant for fracture stabilisation at the proximal region of the femur. An ideal implant provides load stability under full weight bearing as early as possible. This implant has to be anchored safely in an osteoporotic bone in elderly people. In addition, the implant should guarantee a sintering of the fracture, so that a better contact between the fragments will be possible. Perforation of the implant through the headneck fragment must be avoided. The vascularisation should to be preserved. Finally the operative technique should be as simple as possible. Requirements to an ideal implant for stabilising proximal femur fractures (according to KM Stürmer 1993): ] Allows full weight bearing ] Safe anchorage in osteoporotic bones ] Possible sintering and compression of the fracture ] Avoidance of implant perforation ] Preservation of vascularisation ] Simple operation technique
After osteosyntheses at the proximal femur especially as a result of unstable 31 A 3-3 femur fractures there are often typical complications, which necessitate reosteosyntheses by the same operative method or the change of procedures. Owing to instability telescoping of the fragments can cause a femur head perforation by the supporting screw or by the blade. As a result of instability and malpositioning there are a migration of the supporting screw out of the head neck fragment called “cutting out”. Because of absent bony consolidation and concomitant micro-movements of the fragments it results a plate loosening at the cortical shaft, whereby the implant dislocates secondary. Due to a second trauma or to micro-movements in a pseudarthrotic situation tension forces at the implant will be too high so that an implant failure will result. Typical complications after osteosyntheses at the proximal femur ] Femur head perforation ] Cutting out of the head neck fragment ] Plate loosening at cortical shaft ] Implant failure
Type of fracture In recent years numerous implants have been developed and implanted to stabilise simple pertrochanteric femur fractures in which the medial cortical bone has undergone a simple fracture and the lateral cortical bone is intact (AO 31 A1), to stabilize comminuted pertrochanteric fractures with medial cortical defects, but intact lateral cortical bone (AO 31 A2) and to stabilise intertrochanteric femur fractures
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with or without involvement of the trochanter, but fracture of both the medial and the lateral cortex (AO 31 A3). Most of these implants are no longer in use. In the course of a decade from August 1992 to November 2006 a total of 1410 Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) procedures were carried out in the Clinic of Traumatology at the Marienhospital in Stuttgart, Germany. Overall 1361 osteosyntheses at the proximal femur and 49 osteosyntheses at the distal femur were carried out with the Dynamic Martin Screw. A total of 1286 primary fractures – including 30 pathological proximal femur fractures – were stabilised at the proximal femur with the Dynamic Martin Screw. In 40 cases the DMS was used as treatment for complication management in reoperations at the proximal femur. As an extended indication 26 extramedullary Femur Neck-Prosthesis were implanted, 6 varus and valgus osteotomies at the proximal femur and 3 non malignant bone cysts at the proximal femur were stabilised with the Dynamic Martin Screw. A total of 1253 proximal femur fractures classified by the AO (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Osteosynthese) were stabilised with the Dynamic Martin Screw. These fractures were distributed in 978 31 A-fractures, 248 medial femur head neck fractures classified as 31 B fractures by the AO and 27 proximal femur shaft fractures classified as 32 A to 32 C by the AO. The detailed distribution of the 1226 proximal femur fractures amounted to 369 31 A1-, 398 31 A2- and 211 31 A3-fractures just as 135 31 B1-, 77 31 B2- and 36 31 B3-fractures.
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Results Between August 1992 and November 2006 978 intertrochanteric fractures of the femur were stabilised with the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS). All fractures were classified as 31 A-fractures by the AO. The detailed distribution of these fractures according to the AO-classification was shown above in the chapter “statistical items”. 761 of these patients were women (77.8%) and 217 of these patients were men (22.2%) with an average age of 81.6 years (r = ± 12.0 years) ranging from 21 to 101 years. At the moment of trauma 86.4% of the patients were 70 years or older. Almost 68.1% of the patients were over 80 years old. 704 of the 761 affected women (92.5%) were 70 years or older, 57 women (7.5%) were younger than 70 years. Almost 570 women (74.9%) and 142 men (65.4%) were over 80 years old. The mean age of the 761 affected women was 83.7 years (r = ± 9.7 years) with a range from 29 to 101 years. In the group of the traumatized 217 men the average age was 74.4 years (r = ± 16.0 years) ranging from 21 to 100 years. 143 men were older (65.9%) and 74 men younger (34.1%) than 70 years (Fig. 9.1). The average stay in hospital following osteosyntheses was 21.4 days (r = ± 9.2 days) with a range from 1 to 88 days. Prolonged clinical stay was caused by concomitant internal diseases and in some cases by postoperative complications (Fig. 9.2).
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seal femur head prosthesis (DMP) combined with the Dynamic Martin Screw-system 5 and 40 months after primary operation, 3 cemented total hip replacement 16 days, 2 and 4 months after primary treatment and a 1 proximal femur replacement 17 days after primary operation had to be carried out. In 13 cases (1.3%) there was no bony consolidation in the fracture region. Because of the present pseudarthrosis varus malposition of the head neck fragment with concomitant pain symptomatology resulted on an average 6.3 months (r = ± 3.8 months) after stabilisation. In 6 cases valgus repositioning operation with stabilisation by the Dynamic Martin Screw was carried out. In 1 case reosteosynthesis was carried out using a 958 angle blade plate. In 1 case a proximal femur replacement and in another case 1 metaphyseal femur neck prosthesis had to be implanted 7 and 5 months after primary stabilisation. In 3 patients a cemented total hip replacement had to be used. In one case involving pronounced senile osteoporosis a girdlestone procedure had to be carried out. In 6 cases aseptic femur head necrosis (0.6%) occurred on an average 33.7 months (r = ± 36.7 months) after primary treatment with the Dynamic Martin Screw. In 4 of these cases a cemented total hip replacement and in 2 cases a metaphyseal femur neck prosthesis (DMP) were implanted after plate removal. Due to pronounced senile osteoporosis and comminuted fracture, external rotation malpositioning resulted in 6 cases (0.6%) 5, 9, 12, 14 (2 ´) days and 4.8 months after primary treatment thus a renewed stabilization with a Dynamic Martin Screw was carried out. Implant failure occurred in 5 case (0.5%) leading to reosteoysntheses with a Dynamic Martin Screw in 2 case 45 days after primary treatment.
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Table 9.1. Osseous complications in fracture care; n = 52 (5.3%) Caused by fracture ] Secondary dislocation “cutting out“ (n = 8)
3 ´ DMS/DMS 2 ´ DMS/metaphyseal THR (DMP) 2 ´ DMS/cemented THR 1 ´ DMS/prox. femur prosthesis (FNP)
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In the other 3 cases 1 metaphyseal femur neck prosthesis 6 days after primary stabilization, 1 proximal femur replacement 2 months and 1 cemented total hip replacement 3 months after primary operation were carried out. 14 patients had subsequent trauma (1.4%) requiring reosteosynthesis. In 4 cases there was a fracture distal to the plate with loosening of the Dynamic Martin Screw. Reosteosyntheses with a longer DMS was used to achieve bony consolidation. In 10 patients the renewed trauma led to displacement of the DMS. In 5 cases secondary reduction of the fracture and stabilization with a DMS lead to osseous union. In 1 case this was achieved by proximal femur nail (PFN) and in another by 958 condylar angle plate. In 3 cases a cemented total hip replacement was required.
Table 9.2. Non-osseous complications of the fractures: n = 77 (7.9%) Connected with operative fracture stabilization ] Postoperative haematomas: n = 41 ] Deep soft tissue infection: n = 14 ] Arterial embolism of the femur artery: n = 2 ] Deep venous thrombosis: n=5 Not connected with operative fracture stabilization ] Pulmonary embolism: n=4 ] Pneumonia: n=5 ] Decompensate cirrhosis of the liver: n=1 ] Stomach perforation: n=1 ] Perforated cholecystitis: n=2 ] Iatrogenic perforated small intestine n=2 due to suprapubic vesical catheter:
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There were 77 (7.9%) of 978 patients with pertrochanteric femur fractures stabilized by a DMS that had non implant related complications. There were 41 cases of postoperative haematoma (4.2%) requiring surgical treatment. There were 14 deep soft tissue infections (1.4%) requiring revision. 2 patients suffered an arterial embolism of the femur artery (0.2%) leading to an arterial embolectomy. Deep venous thrombosis occurred in 5 cases (0.5%). Including perioperative mortality 34 patients (3.5%) died up to the fifth postoperative week due to illness unconnected with the accident.
Conclusion Up to the middle of this century, most fractures – including those of the proximal femur region – were treated non-operatively. Establishment of surgical stabilization of proximal femur fractures using various implant types was a long process, especially in older patients. Some of the older implant types are still in use in modified form. Objections based on higher surgical risks to elderly patients due to anaesthesia and surgical trauma is no longer of primary relevance. Thanks to improvements in surgical strategies and modern anaesthesiological techniques, mortality and known complications can now only be further reduced by operating proximal femur fractures as early as possible. Treatment of proximal femur fractures still represents a problem area for the surgeon since most of the patients involved are infirmed or obese and have significant osteoporosis. Many are unable to cooperate with a limited weight bearing program during the desirable early mobilization phase. Under non operative treatment the mortality rate is at least two-thirds with or without a traction bandage. On the other hand, healing generally follows surgical stabilization in patients who do not succumb to co-morbid conditions.
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The osseous and non-osseous complication rates of the Dynamic Martin Screw are comparable to those of other established implants. For that reason the Dynamic Martin Screw is wellsuited to reduce complications rates and improve treatment results considerably. The Dynamic Martin Screw is an implant that provides for simple but reliable stabilization of the entire spectrum of proximal femur fractures with few complications. The “double-dynamic” stabilization provided by the sliding compression principle and the angle-adaptable precision fit of the implant make it a reliable and practicable alternative for biological osteosynthesis in the proximal femur. The Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) remains true to the dynamic compression principle and makes valgus reduction of the femur neck fragment possible following fracture fixation and prior to compression of the pertrochanteric fracture surfaces. The individual angle adjustment by means of the worm gear adjustment of the infinitely Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) guarantees ideal shaft congruence and thus an individualised patient specific intraoperative fitting. The secondary intraoperative valgus or varus correction of axis without renewed disassembly of the implant is a unique feature. The surgical techniques are simple. The positioning of the place of entry of the supporting screw is variable. The DMS guarantees optimal biomechanics at high load stability and thus a low incidence of complications. The results seen to date have satisfied our expectation that the Dynamic Martin Screw establish primary load bearing stability when correctly implanted, in spite of the fact that not a rigid, but rather a dynamic, angle-adapted tongue system is employed. Because the Dynamic Martin Screw provides a precision angle adaptation, it can be used as a universal implant for fracture stabilization in the entire proximal femur region. The Dynamic Martin Screw is an ideal alternative to many implants used before.
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Case 9.1
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Intertrochanteric femur fracture, AO classification 31 A 2-3 Unstable intertrochanteric varus positioned extraarticular multifragmentary fracture Osteosynthesis by 4-hole DMS
Fig. 9.1.2. Pop. X-ray check, a.p. and axial view.
Fig. 9.1.1. Day of accident.
Fig. 9.1.4. X-ray check after 12 months.
Fig. 9.1.3. Progress check after 2 weeks with full weight bearing, a.p. and axial view.
Fig. 9.1.5. X-ray check after implant removal, 3 years after implantation.
10 The 31 A 3-3 fracture: an unstable problem M. Rapp
The increasing incidence of pertrochanteric and subtrochanteric femur fractures makes their treatment ever more challenging both medically and socioeconomically. The increasing life expectancy in our population brings with it a host of factors that complicate our treatment of proximal femur fractures in elderly people. In addition to a variety of medical conditions, these patients many times have a diminished physical and mental reserve. In order to prevent potentially fatal complications, early mobilization and weight bearing are critical determinants of our treatment. Owing to discerning inability of elderly people fractures of the lower extremity causes a longer phase of immobilisation, if the fracture is not treated in a full weight bearing, stable manner. Thus the risk of complication such as thrombosis, embolism, pneumonia or decubital ulcera increases and the physical decline will be accelerated. In the next two decades there will be a doubling or a tripling of the incidence of proximal femur fractures. Early mobilisation of the predominant elderly people and avoidance of secondary complications are the two most important aims in the treatment of proximal femur fractures. This can be achieved only by the operative treatment. Since the mechanical stress at the hip joint while walking the equivalent of 3.3-times of body weight – while running even 4.3-times of body weight. Hence the operative procedure and the implant must be designed to accommodate this. Ideally the operative procedure should provide a stable construct that will allow the patient to be unlimited in their weight bearing. The predominantly elderly patient won’t realize at home partial load bearing of the injured leg after discharge of in-hospital treatment, which was acquired under physiotherapeutic instruction during hospital stay. Additional to trauma
senile patients suffer traumatisation by treatment, change of usual living space into an unfamiliar hospital space as well as long rest in bed.
Type of fracture Most of classifications consider unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures separated from unstable subtrochanteric femur fractures. According to Evans in 1949 pertrochanteric and intertrochanteric femur fractures can be classified in stable and unstable fractures. A fracture will be characterized unstable, if the fracture does not tolerate a load bearing aftertreatment by reduction and stabilisation. The usual cause of this is the missing medial cortical support due to a more or less large cortical defect in the region of the calcar. Thereby either a huge medial fragment separately or an additional dorsal fragment within the meaning of a four-fragment fracture is broken out. Displacement of the dorso-medial lesser trochanter fragment alone causes no instability because medial stress distribution at the calcar will not be interrupted. However there is a relevant instability, if the defect reaches the medial part of the calcar. This instability increases with the size of the fragments, their comminution and displacement. The dorso-medial comminuted fracture zone prevents the discharge of forces across Adam’s arc into the femur. While the classification according to Evans is used above all in the anglo-american speaking countries, the classification of the proximal femur fractures according to the AO is applied predominantly in the European area. In the AO-classification, unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures with diagonal and reversed fracture line will be classified as 31 A 3-3
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fractures. In these fractures the medial and lateral cortices are both fractured simultaneously. An additional medial fragment – the lesser trochanter – is displaced.
Results Between August 1992 to November 2006 192 unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures were stabilised by the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS). All fractures were unstable with a reversed fracture zone. These fractures were classified as 31 A 3-3 according to the AO-classification. 148 of the patients were women (77.1%) and 44 patients were men (22.9%) with an average age of 79.8 years (r = ± 13.5 years) ranging from 21 to 100 years. At the moment of the trauma 82.8% of the patients were 70 years or older. Almost 127 of the patients (66.1%) were over 80 years old. 132 of the 148 affected women (89.2%) were 70 years or older, 16 women were younger than 70 years (10.8%). Almost 107 women (72.3%) and 20 men (45.5%) were over 80 years old.
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(56.3%) the fractures were operated at day 1 after trauma by a DMS. Another 14.0% of the cases were treated in the following 24 hours, thus as a whole 90.6% of the patients were treated within 48 hours after the day of accident. Only in 18 cases (9.4%) operative treatment was possible only after 48 hours after the accident due to logistical causes. Despite the advanced age of the patients, operation had not to be adjourned in one case due to the concomitant numerous internal diseases. Altogether the operative stabilisation of the unstable intertrochanteric femoral fractures was accomplished on an average 1.2 days (r = ± 1.1 days) after trauma with a range from 0 to 8 days (Fig. 10.3). After operative treatment 75.5% of the patients could be early mobilized on the second postoperative day allowing full weight bearing. 18.8% of the patients left the hospital partial weight bearing. 5.7% of them were already bedridden before trauma. 107 patients (55.7%) were transferred for intense physiotherapeutic training into a rehabilitation clinic. 29 patients (15.1%) were dismissed
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directly at home. 36 patients (18.8%) were attended into a home for aged people or a nursing home, whereby some of these patients were living there already before trauma. 14 patients (7.3%) were transferred into another department of the clinic. 6 patients (3.1%) with multiple illness died perioperatively during their stay in hospital. In 23 (12%) of 192 patients with unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures stabilized by a DMS, device related complications occurred. In the entirety of our 192 patients there were in 3 cases (1.6%) a cutting out of the supporting screw out of the head neck fragment during clinical treatment necessitating a reosteosynthesis with a Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) 10 and 25 days after primary treatment. In 1 case a proximal femur replacement 17 days after primary operation had to be carried out. In 5 cases (2.6%) there was no bony consolidation in the fracture region. Because of the present pseudarthrosis varus malposition of the head neck fragment with concomitant pain symptomatology resulted on an average 8.6 months (r = ± 4.5 months) after stabilisation. In 4 cases valgus repositioning operation with a renewed stabilisation by the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) was carried out. In 1 case reosteosynthesis was carried out using a 958 angle blade plate. 4 fractures went on to osseous union. In one case a proximal femoral replacement had to be implanted 15 months after the reosteosynthesis. Due to pronounced senile osteoporosis and comminuted fracture, external rotation malpositioning resulted in 3 cases (1.6%) 5, 9 and 14 days after primary treatment thus a renewed stabilization with a Dynamic Martin Screw was carried out. Implant failure occurred in 2 cases (1.0%) leading to reosteosyntheses with a Dynamic Martin Screw both 45 days after primary treatment. 9 patients had subsequent trauma (4.7%) requiring reosteosynthesis. In 3 cases there was a fracture distal to the plate with loosening of the Dynamic Martin Screw. Reosteosyntheses with a longer DMS was used to achieve bony consolidation. In 6 patients the renewed trauma led to displacement of the DMS. In 4 cases secondary reduction of the fracture and stabilisation with a DMS lead to osseous union. In 1 case this was achieved by proximal femur nail (PFN) and in another by 958 condylar angle plate.
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Table 10.1. Osseous complications in fracture care, n = 23 (12.0%) Caused by fracture ] Secondary dislocation “cutting out” (n = 3)
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There were 22 (11.5%) of 192 patients with instable “reversed” intertrochanteric femur fractures stabilized by a DMS that had non implant related complications. There were 10 cases of postoperative haematoma (5.2%) requiring surgical treatment. There were 5 deep soft tissue infections (2.6%) requiring revision. Deep venous thrombosis occurred in 2 cases (1.0%). Pulmonary embolism happened in 1 case (0.5%). Including perioperative mortality 6 patients (3.1%) died up to the fifth postoperative week due to illness unconnected with the accident.
Conclusion Proximal femur fractures, especially the unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures, are common in the elderly population. Besides the instable intertrochanteric and subtrochanteric femur fracture confronts the treating physician with difficult therapeutically problems. The conservative treatment contains a phase of immobilisation up to 3 months, which is leading to an intolerable increase of mortality. According to literature mortality rates are found between 20% and 60% under exclusive conservative treatment. Therefore it is obviously that operation is therapy of choice. Instability is proportional to the extent of traumatisation of the medial cortical bone, whereby the region of instability is elongated into the intertrochanteric and subtrochanteric region. To achieve full load capacity as early as possible an implant is necessary, which withstands high bending stresses permanently. Referring to this the implant has to admit a controlled sintering of the fracture to get a bridging of the fragments up to bony consolidation even before failure of implant arises. Risk of femur head perforation will be minimized by a blunt grinding of the supporting screw and the dynamic sliding tongue principle. Loss of length in instable multifragment fractures can be compen-
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sated intraoperatively by valgisation of the head-neck fragment. Lengthening of leg can be obtained angle adjusted up to 3 cm in order to keep a postoperative shortening of leg as little as possible. In addition bending and shearing forces will be reduced by the desired valgisation of the head-neck fragment, because they will be transformed into axial compression forces. The osseous and non-osseous complication rates of the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) are comparable to those of other established extramedullary and intramedullary implants in the operative treatment of unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures. For that reason the Dynamic Martin Screw is well-suited to reduce complications rates and improve treatment results considerably.
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Case 10.1
87 years old female
Intertrochanteric femur fracture, AO classification 31 A 3.3 Unstable transtrochanteric extraarticular multifragmentary fracture Osteosynthesis by 6-hole DMS
Fig. 10.1.1. Day of accident.
Fig. 10.1.2. Pop. x-ray check.
Fig. 10.1.3. X-ray after 2 weeks.
Fig. 10.1.4. X-ray check with solidly consolidation 16 months pop.
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52 years old female
Intertrochanteric reversed femur fracture, AO classification 31 A 3-3 Highly unstable, transtrochanteric varus positioned extraarticular multifragmentary fracture Osteosynthesis by 6-hole DMS
Fig. 10.2.1. Day of accident.
Fig. 10.2.2. Pop. x-ray check.
Fig. 10.2.3. X-ray check after 3 weeks.
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Fig. 10.2.5. Situation after consolidation, 8 months pop.
Fig. 10.2.6. X-ray check after 13 months and implant removal.
11 Subtrochanteric femur and proximal femur shaft fractures M. Rapp
Subtrochanteric femur fractures and proximal femur shaft fractures are severe injuries. They are considered as problematical fractures at the lower extremity. Subtrochanteric femoral fractures and proximal femoral shaft fractures occur more rarely in comparison with pertrochanteric femoral fractures. Nevertheless they lead quicker to life-threatening situations because they can be accompanied by rapid blood loss within a short time and other complications. Fractures at the subtrochanteric region of the femur happens either in younger persons due to high energetic trauma or in elderly people with osteoporotic bones owing to simple fall. Besides this type of fracture predominate in elderly people. As a result of the adjournment to the right of the pyramidal age structure of the population these fractures strongly increase in the last two decades. Due to frailty of these patients postoperative mobilisation requires primary load stable osteosynthesis, because partial load capacity cannot be safely transferred by the patients. The extent of instability caused by the fracture type must be considered for the choice of suited osteosynthesis technique in the individual case. As extramedullary osteosynthesis procedures for stabilisation of subtrochanteric femur fractures the 958-angle blade plate and the Dynamic Condylar Plate (DCS) are used most frequent. Since the beginning of the Eighties the Dynamic Hip Screw (DHS) started to prevail on the market by these types of fractures. Though primary full load bearing capacity could not be achieved in unstable fractures, rotation stability of the proximal fragment was not available. As a result of compression and sintering in the level of the fracture zone there was bony consolidation with a considerable shortening of the leg in some extent. Since the end of the Eighties intramedullary osteosynthesis tech-
niques (Gamma nail and Proximal Femur Nail systems) were increasingly used, which are also afflicted with numerous complications. But intramedullary fixation has the additional advantage that it can be performed with less periosteal stripping and soft tissue disruption.
Type of fracture The subtrochanteric femur fracture will be characterized as a fracture, which extends from the distal line of the trochanter minor to a femoral zone 5 cm distal from this. Besides fracture lines can end in the proximal region of the femur up to the intertrochanteric region or up to the trochanter major. Such a fracture constellation represents an exceptional problem owing to high instability. According to the classification by Sennheiser subtrochanteric femur fractures can be subdivided into 5 groups, whereby the intertrochanteric region is included. Nevertheless the classification of the proximal femur fractures according to the AO is applied predominantly in the European area. Stabilisation with extramedullary osteosynthesis procedures is estimated evident more problematical in subtrochanteric femur fractures than in pertrochanteric femur fractures. This is caused by marked anatomical and biomechanical circumstances. For anatomical reasons the subtrochanteric femur region is made of solid cortical bone with pronounced different healing characteristics than mellow metaphyseal bone. The medial cortical bone in the subtrochanteric region is stressed additionally with higher compression forces than tractive forces at the lateral cortical bone. Comminuted fracture zones at the medial area often complicate an accurate reconstruction.
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Results Between August 1992 and November 2006 27 subtrochanteric fractures of the femur were stabilised by the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS). All fractures were classified as 32 A–C by the AO: 10 ´ 32 A, 12 ´ 32 B, 5 ´ 32 C. 20 of the patients (74.1%) were women and 7 of the patients (25.9%) were men with an average age of 73.6 years (r = ± 20.9 years) with a range from 26 to 99 years. At the moment of trauma 19 patients (70.4%) were 70 years or older. Almost 48% of the patients (n = 13) had completed their eightieth year of their life. 15 of the 20 affected women (75%) were 70 years or older, 5 women were younger than 70 years (25%). The mean age of the 20 affected women was 75.8 years (r = ± 19.5 years) ranging from 26 to 96 years. The average age of the traumatized men was 67.4 years (r = ± 25.1 years) with a range from 35 to 99 years. 3 of these men were older (42.9%) and 4 men were younger (57.1%) than 70 years. The mean hospital stay following osteosynthesis was 20.0 days (r = ± 8.7 days) ranging from 8 to 45 days. No longer was clinical stay essentially influenced by non-accident causes. It was not always possible to discharge the patients seemless to rehabilitation more early. The operative indication for osteosyntheses was decided in 25 cases after an adequate trauma and in 2 cases after a pathological fracture. 15 patients (55.6%) suffered household fall. 5
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In the last years there was a significant change in operation technique using extramedullary plate systems. The postulate of the accurate anatomical reposition of the medial cortical bone was left. Instead of this indirect reposition techniques with biological types of osteosyntheses by means of bridging osteosyntheses have prevailed increasingly. This is based on preservation of soft tissues and therewith of blood supply of the medial comminuted fracture zone. By this means inherent disadvantages of extramedullary plate systems will be avoided as far as possible such as large access, deperiostation of the bone, increased infection rates and with that enhanced delayed healing rates and enhanced rates of pseudarthrosis.
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patients (18.5%) had a fall in the home for aged people or respectively in a nursing home. 3 patients (11.1%) tumbled on the road. 2 patients (7.4%) suffered a traffic accident (bicycle). Operative procedure could be carried out in 22 cases (81.5% of the fractures) within 24 hours after the trauma. In 15 patients (55.6%) the subtrochanteric femur fractures were stabilised just on the day of accident. In 7 cases (25.9%) the fractures were treated at day 1 after the trauma. The remaining 5 patients (18.5%)
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were operated in the following 24 hours. Thus as a whole 100% of the subtrochanteric femur fractures were stabilised definitely within 48 hours after the moment of accident by a DMS. Despite the advanced age of most of the patients operation had not to be adjourned in one case due to the concomitant numerous internal diseases. Altogether the average operative stabilisation of the subtrochanteric femur fractures was 0.6 days (r = ± 0.8 days) after trauma ranging from 0 to 2 days. 15 of the 27 patients (55.6%) could be early remobilised after operative treatment from the second postoperative day under full weight bearing. Another 11 patients (40.7%) could be remobilised under partial weight bearing. Only 1 patient (3.7%) was already bedridden before trauma. 17 patients (63.0%) removed for intense physiotherapeutic training into a rehabilitation clinic. 3 patients (11.1%) were dismissed directly at home. 3 patients (11.1%) were attended into a home for aged people or a nursing home, where they were living just before trauma had occurred. 2 patients (7.4%) were discharged into another clinic department. 2 multimorbide
patients (7.4%) died postoperatively during their stay in hospital on day 8 and day 9 due to their pre-existing severe internal diseases (colon-cancer, cardio-pulmonary disease). In 3 (11.1%) of the examined patients there were complications, which were connected with the osteosyntheses method, which was carried out. In the entirety of our 27 patients there were no secondary dislocation (“cutting out”) of the supporting screw out of the femoral head during clinical treatment. All fractures healed completely without pseudarthrosis. 3 patients had a renewed trauma, thus reosteosynthesis was necessary. In 2 cases there was a refracture distal of the plate after 6 months and 51 months after primary treatment. One patient suffered a femoral shaft fracture 6 weeks after stabilisation. In all three cases the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) was removed. In 2 cases reosteosyntheses were carried out by a condylar blade plate. In 1 case the refracture was treated by an AO-nailing. In 1 case there was a soft tissue infection 3 weeks and in 1 case a deep tissue infection 7.5 months after operative stabilisation leading to an operative revision. In 2 patients an operative revision because of an extended haematoma had to be done.
Summary Subtrochanteric femur fractures are typical osseous injuries of predominant elderly people. Therefore high demands to the used osteosynthesis techniques must be made concerning immediate load bearing stability and immediate postoperative mobilisation.
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Rigid implants have no longer fundamental importance for stabilising subtrochanteric femur fractures, because they allow no telescoping in the fracture zone under load bearing. The desirable sintering in the fracture area – which is possible using dynamic implants – will be prevented due to the rigid blade. Thus there are often a delay of healing in the fracture zone, an implant failure or a secondary perforation of the head neck fragment at the hip calotte – so called “cutting out”. Dynamic osteosynthesis procedures enable sintering in the fracture zone under load bearing. With that an improved osseous healing tendency just as an enhanced stability will be provoked. For this reason today dynamic osteo-
synthesis procedures have to be preferred to rigid implants. The Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) ensures as an extramedullary osteosynthesis procedure all advantages of a dynamic implant. Our experience with the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) shows that as well osseous as local complication rates are equivalent or even diminished compared to other dynamic intramedullary or extramedullary osteosynthesis procedures. The immediate postoperative mobilisation as well as load bearing stability is guaranteed as a rule. Therefore the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) represents a suitable osteosynthesis procedure for stabilisation of subtrochanteric femur and proximal femur shaft fractures.
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Case 11.1
95 years old female
Subtrochanteric femur fracture, AO classification 32 B 2-1 Unstable heavily comminuted spiral fracture with intermediate fragments Osteosynthesis by 8-hole DMS
Fig. 11.1.1. Day of accident.
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Fig. 11.1.2. Pop. x-ray check.
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Case 11.2
44 years old male
Subtrochanteric femur fracture, AO classification 31 A 3-1 Highly unstable heavily comminuted fracture Osteosynthesis by 6-hole DMS
Fig. 11.2.1. Day of accident.
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Fig. 11.2.3 a. X-ray check after 2 weeks, a.p. view.
Fig. 11.2.2. Pop. x-ray check.
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Case 11.3
35 years old male
Proximal femur shaft fracture, AO classification 32 C 3-3 Highly unstable comminuted proximal shaft fracture Osteosynthesis by inserted 14-hole DMS
Fig. 11.3.1. Day of accident.
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59 years old female
Subtrochanteric spiral femur fracture, AO classification 32 A 1-1 Unstable spiral fracture Osteosynthesis by 10-hole DMS
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12 Application of the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) in the intertrochanteric osteotomy W. Miller, K.-K. Dittel
The basic conditions for a functioning and permanent use of the hip joint are based on a normal joint anatomy and physiological functional parameters of load capacity. The pathophysiology of defective positions in the hip joint area therefore has to be regarded pre-operatively at first under the aspect of the objective value of morbidity. This can be seen on the one hand because of pain and functional disablement, on the other side out of aesthetic causes from the sight of the patient. Missing possibility of compensation being endangered by an arthrosis either of posttraumatic or degenerative causes manifest an actual and therefore at the same time prospective sign of morbidity. Any osteotomy which has the aim to create an embettering of an actual situation only makes sense when it is guaranteed that the unphysiological loads can be abolished. The correction of pathological joint overloading can involve the indication either by prophylactic as well as by therapeutic reasons. At the end there is a spectrum of indications existing, which reaches from the fresh Pauwels III fracture with primary correction of the pressure and dislocation forces until to the defective position out of genetic reason and manifest posttraumatic dislocation. At the turning point between the body and the lower extremities the hip joint owns a central function for the movement as no other joint. Therefore the causes of inherited or acquired deficiencies in this region are heavily. The reconstructive surgery of the hip joint region is dominating the younger people. The causes of the disturbances of articulation are numerous. So can be called the congenital hip roof dysplasy, the congenital coxa valga with tendency to luxation, the congenital femur neck pseudarthrosis with a varus dislocation, the osteochondrosis (Morbus Perthes), and the epiphysiolysis of the hip head as well as the aseptic femur head necrosis of the adolescent. Finally there is a demand by posttraumatic defect and incongruence for differen-
tiated diagnosis and therapy whereas the disturbances should be corrected in the part of the joint where it is existing. With the defective position that need correction at the proximal femur are to mention: pathological varus and pathological valgus prolonged or shortened femur neck, proximalization and distalization of the trochanter major, enlarged antetorsion, flexion and extension show different addictive points for reconstructive operations. All these operations are common in the need out of the principle of the osteotomy. The malpositioned femur axe is corrected in the intertrochanteric area by a planned osteotomy where the corrected position has to be secured by the osteosynthesis until the bony consolidation has taken place definitively. As the choice of implant in reconstructive hip joint surgery over several decades the angle blade plate has been established. But it has to be regarded that even an optimal pre-operative planning sometimes can result in a non-optimal blade position. Only several degrees alteration in the 3-dimensional realization can decide intraoperatively about success or failure. In the pre-operative planning the intraoperative realization can project by even minimal alteration of the position in the osteotomy in decisive changing of the hip joint loading. Even with a very subtile technique the risk remains coming out of a non-optimal placement of the angle blade plate. Even the step of the blade angle in five degree steps can be too inexact. The chosen input position of the blade into the head neck fragment can only be corrected under great difficulties. Therefore the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) was on the one item developed for the traumatology of the aged patient. To one part the shortening of the operative time, the very small sortiment of implants and the unproblematic use in contradiction to other implants has to be seen in the foreground. By the stepless angle adaption the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS)
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shows ideal conditions for corrective operations in the grown-up patient group. After the preoperative planning of the selected CCD-angle the osteotomy is done after the view points of bone adaption. The placement of the supporting screw can be done at first without regarding of the later CCD-angle if the implantation has been done exact in both planes. The length of the necessary plate is then adapted and can be fixated over the angle adaption exact to the chosen position. The danger of a cutting out of the supporting screw actually is hardly possible. The contact surfaces of the osteotomy can be optimized and allows a maximum compression in every degree of the angle. Because of the very positive experiences in fracture treatment the DMS was also used in reconstructive hip surgery. The results up to the present moment are very encouraging, though a greater amount of patients with especially long time results is missing. Fortunately the problematic hip joint false position in a group of grown-ups have been reduced in the last years based on a broad diagnosis spectrum by clinical and sonographic investigations in all new born kids. The evaluation of the results has to be done always concerning the single case. There
is to be seen an increase of indication related numbers of patients parallel to the support of femur neck fractures in connection with primary additional valgus osteotomies in order to embetter the results especially in those cases at the femur neck who have to be attributed to the Pauwels III group. An early intertrochanteric osteotomy in combination with the fresh femur neck fracture to avoid an idiopathic avascular necrosis of the femur head or femur neck pseudarthrosis has to be discussed critically today. It can be regarded as proved that the early osteotomy will bring better results than an operative procedure at the time when an avascular necrosis already can be seen on the radiographic series. The results after the early intertrochanteric osteotomy will lead to a high number of satisfactory long term results with poor results resulting out of a local damage of the hip joint at the time of delayed indication. The following cases show the use of the Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) as well in a valgus as in a varus intertrochanteric osteotomy. Furtheron 2 cases show the support of an old femur neck fracture with an additional osteotomy and an acute femur neck fracture being treated the same way.
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30 years old female
Bilateral acetabular dysplasia and coxarthrosis Bilateral intertrochanteric valgisation osteotomy Osteosynthesis by 4-hole DMS
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Fig. 12.1.1 b. Preoperative adduction x-ray.
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Case 12.2
38 years old male
Bilateral acetabular dysplasia and coxarthrosis Bilateral intertrochanteric varisation osteotomy Osteosynthesis by 4-hole DMS
Fig. 12.2.1. Preoperative abduction x-ray.
Fig. 12.2.2. X-ray check after 6 months right side.
Fig. 12.2.3. Pop. x-ray check left side and 1 year after implant removal right side.
Fig. 12.2.4. X-ray check after bony consolidation and implant removal on both sides
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Case 12.3
56 years old female
Acute medial neck fracture, AO classification 31 B 3.3 Primary intertrochanteric valgisation osteotomy Osteosynthesis by 4-hole DMS with simultaneous intertrochanteric valgus osteotomy
Fig. 12.3.1. Day of accident, a.p. view.
Fig. 12.3.2. Day of accident, 2nd view.
Fig. 12.3.4. X-ray check after 6 months.
Fig. 12.3.3. X-ray check after 2 weeks, a.p. and axial view.
Fig. 12.3.5. Consolidated fracture, 31 months postoperative, a.p. and axial view.
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Case 12.4
50 years old male
Femur neck fracture and pseudarthrosis, AO classification 31 B 3.3 Primary conservatively treated unstable and dislocated femur neck fracture with a manifest pseudarthrosis 5 months after the fracture event Osteosynthesis by 4-hole DMS with simultaneous intertrochanteric valgus osteotomy
Fig. 12.4.1. Situation 5 months after the accident.
Fig. 12.4.2. Positioning of the DMS lag screw.
Fig. 12.4.3. Valgisation osteotomy intraoperatively.
Fig. 12.4.4. Valgisation osteotomy postoperatively.
Fig. 12.4.5. X-ray check after 5 years with solidly consolidated fracture and osteotomy.
13 Distal femur fractures M.-R. Felenda
Fractures of the distal part of the femoral bone are a result of direct trauma. They are severe injuries caused by great violence and velocity. 35% of the patients had open soft tissue damage. One third of the patients suffer a polytrauma and two third are caused by traffic accidents. Supracondylar fractures show a typical rotating displacement of the distal fragment caused by traction of the gastrognemic muscles. Intraoperative difficulties during the resetting result also from traction of muscular and ligamentous structures. Pathological fractures of elderly patients with primary or secondary tumors of the bone or osteoporosis are increasing in frequency. Especially these patients need a stable internal fixation. Many fractures show a significant comminution that requires an extended healing time. Bone grafting will be necessary. The aim of treatment in elderly patients and patients with pathological fractures is stable fracture fixation that will allow immediate weight bearing. Local accompanying injuries involving nerve and vessel structures are common.
Treatment strategy An early stabilization of these fractures is recommended. Absolute and urgent indications for operation are ] Fractures with additional vessel or nerve injury ] Open fractures. Depending on the soft tissue destruction primarily a temporary external fixation system will be required initially. In most cases however an internal fixation is possible.
Fractures with an extensive open soft tissue damage can be stabilized with a temporary joint bridging external fixator. In some cases pin traction from the proximal tibia can be used in the emergency room. The definitive stabilization should be done as early as possible. Open and closed fractures involving the knee joint urgently require an anatomic reconstruction and stable fracture fixation. Supracondylar fractures and fractures of the distal part of the femoral shaft can cause a compartment syndrome resulting from an extensive haemorrhage. In polytrauma patients the fracture related blood loss must taken into account. In these cases an early stabilization minimizes the risk of hemorrhagic shock.
Indications for operation Fractures in this region generally require surgery. An additional indication for operative stabilization with the DMS is impending for actual pathologic fractures. In selective cases an indication of the DMS may be used for fixation in supracondylar osteotomy for correction of posttraumatic or hereditary deformities.
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Choice of device at the distal femur Common devices are: 958-Condylar plate Condylar supporting plate T-plate Dynamic Condylar Screw (DCS) Interlocking nail Supracondylar nail (IMSC, GSH-Nail) Distal Femur Nail (DFN) Liss (Less invasive stabilization system) Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS).
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Because of the funnel-shaped form of the distal femur an intramedullary fixation using the common interlocking nail is only possible in certain cases of metaphyseal fractures or distal shaft fractures. Intercondylar fractures should not be treated with this procedure. Unicondylar fractures can be treated sufficiently with screw fixation, however, a more stable construct with a side plate is preferred. Most supracondylar fractures can be stabilized by a fixed or variable angle device.
parapatellar opening of the knee joint to perform an anatomic reduction of the condylar fragments. Occasionally a temporary intraoperative fixation with K-wires will be necessary followed by screw fixation of the condylar fragments. Using the DMS the flexible setting of the angle allows a great variability of the insertion point of the lag screw. In supracondylar fractures, the best insertion point is just above the lateral femoral epicondyle. The 105-degree angle guide is helpful but all intraosseous positioning must be guided and controlled radiographically. While measuring the length of the guide wire you have to respect trapezoidal shape of the condylar region. After using the three step reamer the lag screw is inserted. The barrel of the DMS is impacted over the lag screw and the plate is brought flush with the femoral shaft using the variable angle feature. The plate may also be bent using a press if necessary. Fixation to the shaft is accomplished by an appropriate number of cortical and cancellous screws as well as cables according to the established principles.
] Additional procedures ] Primary or secondary autogenous bone grafting in medial defects ] Metal-cement-complex osteosynthesis.
Stabilization of the distal femur fracture with the DMS The patient is positioned on an orthopaedic standard operating table. The leg is draped free. A bolster is helpful in the reduction.
] Operative approach and technique The standard approach from lateral is employed and enables an opening that takes account of the soft tissue. After incising the lateral fascia lengthwise the vastus lateralis is incised or mobilized. Periosteal stripping is kept to a minimum. Intraarticular fractures require a lateral
Postoperative management If rigid fixation is accomplished, knee motion is begun as soon as the soft tissue condition is appropriate. In several cases an early partial or full weight bearing was possible because of the thickness of the device. Especially in patients with multiple fractures at different extremities or elderly patients a full weight bearing on the injured leg is unavoidable. The stabilization of pathological fractures with a metal-cementcomplex osteosynthesis helps attain a stable situation for the time of life expectancy.
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] Postoperative physiotherapy The postoperative physiotherapeutic program must be orientated to the patients situation and potential. ] Positioning of the leg on a Krappsplint ] CPM (continous passive motion) beginning on the second postoperative day ] Mobilisation of the patient out of the bed as early as possible.
] X-ray ] Intraoperative ] Immediately postoperative ] After mobilisation and before leaving the hospital ] After six weeks ] After twelve weeks ] Before removal of device.
] Removal of device The removal of the DMS at the distal femur should be done after one and a half to two years after implantation. In elderly patients it is possible to leave the device if there are no referable complaints or irritation.
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Method During a period of thirteen years and nine months (11/1993–2/2006) 49 patients (41 female, 8 male) had an osteosynthesis with the DMS in distal femoral fractures. The mean age was 78.1 years (R = 38–96 years). The indication for implantation of the DMS was in many cases a complicated situation including complex fractures, concomitant osteoporosis and pathologic fractures. Classification of fractures: 33A 1 n = 6 33A 2 n = 4
33A 3 n = 16
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Results The medium length of stay in the hospital was 24.4 days (11 to 49 days). Two third of the patients were older than 75 years. The mean time of bone healing was 16 weeks (12 to 40 weeks). Four patients suffered a repeated trauma with a refracture. One patient needed a correction of a valgus-malposition. There was one case of an early and one case of a late infection. An additional metal-cementcomplex osteosynthesis was done in 9 patients.
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Case 13.1
83 years old female
Supracondylar femur fracture, AO classification 33 A 3.3 Highly unstable complex and segmental dislocated fracture Osteosynthesis by 12-hole DMS
Fig. 13.1.1. Day of accident.
Fig. 13.1.3. X-ray check after 6 months.
Fig. 13.1.2. Pop. x-ray check, a.p. and axial view.
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86 years old female
Distal femur spiral shaft fracture, AO classification 32 A 1-3 Spiral dislocated shaft fracture Osteosynthesis by 10-hole DMS
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The application of the angle-adaptable Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) within framework of compound osteosynthesis will be presented in this chapter. In case of metastatic formations or in case of pathologic fractures in the prevalence of osteoporosis of the long tubular bone conventional osteosyntheses frequently offer an insufficient degree of exercise stability and weight bearing stability. The most frequent causes of these fractures are metastases of non-osseous tumours, osteoporosis and much less commonly primary bone tumours. The use of the angle-adaptable Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) in combination with methylmethacrylate (PMMA) especially in complicated cases of osteolysis and pathological fractures can help to solve these problematic situations. In this context the advantages of supplementing internal fixation devices with PMMA become evident. This combined method of fixation is required in order to give the skeletal stability necessary to provide comfort and quality to a patient with a severe disease and disability. Though there is a damage of the intramedullary blood supply resulting in the use of PMMA the advantages of an early stable situation outweigh this problem. In addition clinical observations show that cortical bone can be revascularized by periosteal circulation in a period between 6 and 12 weeks and even significant cortical defects can be bridged by substantial bone healing processes if the tumour is removed or an additional treatment is done. The surgeon has to minimize the soft tissue stripping and protect the periosteal and extra osseous blood supply whenever possible. Due to possible complications this procedure should be preserved for patients with a limited life expectancy. Especially the treatment of pathologic fractures at the proximal femur is an extreme challenge for the surgeon due to the complex bio-
mechanics in this region. According to the literature there is a disproportionately high incidence of osteolytic lesions and pathological fractures in this part of the femur. Successful results in these cases will be judged in the basis of the ability to achieve stable fracture fixation that will allow early mobilization and weight bearing as well as decreased hospitalization. The ultimate goal of each operation is to improve the quality of life of patients whose life expectancy is generally limited by the consuming disease in most cases. In the following section the potential application of the variable angle Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) in combination with PMMA application will be presented in examples. A total of 43 patients were treated with combinated stabilization by the Dynamic Martin Screw and additional PMMA (compound osteosyntheses – metal-cement-complex osteosyntheses) between 8/1992 and 11/2006. The average age was 67 years with the distribution of 85% on women and 15% on men. A metastatic mammary carcinoma was the most common cause of the lesions in 27 cases. The distribution of the osteolytic lesions or pathological fractures in the femur showed a variable distribution: ] intertrochanteric region n = 12 ] subtrochanteric region n = 14 ] proximal femur shaft n= 7 ] distal supracondylar femur region n = 10 After fracture fixation two groups (each of 50%) could either be mobilized with forearm crutches or a walker was required. The average period of hospitalization was 27.5 days under respect to high morbidity and extremely osteoporotic bone quality. 40 patients were able to bear full weight (93.0%), 4 patients were limited to partial weight bearing (7.0%). The average post surgical rate of survival was 24 months.
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The pathologic femur fracture Three typical constellations: ] pathologic fracture in a diagnosed cancer patient ] emergency patient with pathologic fracture ] pathologic fracture as an unexpected intraoperative finding. ] Special case: Imminent pathologic fracture in a large metastasis.
] Type II: loss of structural continuity of the femur neck and the pertrochanteric area ) conventional fixation is associated with a high incidence of loosening and migration. Effective stabilization only by conventional implants is impossible. ] Type III: extensive lysis with a loss of bone structure giving the area functionally non-existing stability ) effective stabilization only by conventional implants is impossible. Resection and defect over bridging by endoprosthetic procedure is state of the art.
Only 5% of the local metastatic lesions are curable while 95% have to be stabilized under palliative aspects. 80% of the pathologic fractures are diagnosed posttraumatically while the rest of 20% is stabilized preventively.
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Four parallel pillars of treatment for functional recovery: ] functionally stable reconstruction ] pain alleviation ] psychological stabilization ] systemic and adjuvant therapy.
Conventional procedures ] intra- or extramedullary implants: – composite osteosynthesis – palliative plate stabilization with or without tumour resection and bridging by composite fracture fixation.
] Primary findings in pathological fractures ] Type I: extensive infiltration of bone by metastases – sufficient unaffected peritrochanteric bone ) Fixation by bonding osteosynthesis results in no higher as usual incidence of loosening or migration.
Respective procedures (endoprosthetic replacements) – cemented THR – proximal femur resection and partial substitution – total femur resection and complete substitution.
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Case 14.1
58 years old female
Imminent pathological subtrochanteric femur fracture Extended osteolytic bone lesions by plasmacytoma Prophylactic stabilization by bonding osteosynthesis by 6-hole DMS
Fig. 14.1.1. Preoperative x-ray check.
Fig. 14.1.2. Pop. x-ray check.
Fig. 14.1.3. X-ray check after 2 weeks.
Fig. 14.1.4. X-ray check after 3 months.
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Case 14.2
64 years old female
Pathological trochanteric femur fracture Extended osteolytic bone lesions by metastasis formation of mammary cancer Osteosynthesis by 12-hole DMS plate and bonding osteosynthesis
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Fig. 14.2.2 b. X-ray check after refracture.
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Fig. 14.2.3. Pop. x-ray check.
15 The use of an innovative femur neck prosthesis in case of complications after hip fracture surgery K.-K. Dittel
The surgeon can notice severe arthrotic changes of the articulating surfaces of the hip joint during the osteosynthesis procedure. Facing a fracture of the proximal femur the surgeon should as first treat the fracture, then wait until its bony consolidation afterwards he has to decide what to do to cure the arthrotic hip. Normally the implant should be completely removed after a period of 12 months when a solidly fracture healing can be found and a so-called conventional hip prosthesis (cemented or cementless) has to be implanted. All these femoral components are fixed in the intramedullary cavity of the proximal femur. In a lot of cases when the DMS or a similar device is removed a well incorporated plate and a stable connection between the plate and the bone is found. This frequent intraoperative observation led to the idea to leave this bone-implant connection untouched, to remove only the lag screw and place the DMP over it thus resulting a total hip replacement with an extramedullary fixation of the femoral part of the prosthesis. With this concept it is therefore not necessary to sacrifice the stability of the bone-implant conjunction by having to remove a lot of bony material prior to be able to remove the plate. This philosophy could therefore be a therapeutic solution for immediate implantation in fracture cases with severe arthrosis of the hip joint, but in any way leaves the surgeon also the choice to implant a hip replacement components as a second stage operation without having the need to destroy the stability of the bone plate connection during the procedure and to produce eventually more damages than benefits to the patients. Since 1996 a number of 26 patients (age 35– 90 y) were subsequently treated with a new cementless titanium coated femoral neck prosthesis. The revisional indications included posttraumatic arthritis, non union cases and avascular necrosis of the femur head.
The femur neck prosthesis fits into the barrel of the previously implanted DMS plate and is stable in rotation. This device is characterized by a central stem which is inserted into the barrel of the plate, five keels to prevent rotation and titanium porous coating. The stability is also achieved by impaction of the calcar flange of the device either into the calcar femur itself or into the cortical and cancellous bone of the pertrochanteric region. A standard femur head component is fitted into the neck taper as usual. During the implantation period since 1996 the femur neck prosthesis has proved its reliability in a group of 26 patients. The indications were 7 cases of a combination of fracture and
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osteoarthritis of the hip. In these cases at first the fracture stabilization was achieved and in a secondary procedure the innovative femur neck prosthesis was implanted in order to treat the progressive osteoarthritis. In 5 cases a pseudarthrosis of the femur neck and in 14 cases a femur head necrosis was found. The average interval between the primary conventional osteosynthesis and the revision arthroplasty was 12 months (5 to 17 months).
During the follow-up 7 patients had a secondary trauma leading to a peri-prosthetic fracture with necessary revision arthroplasty. 10 patients died in between of unrelated causes to the trauma. In 9 cases a good healing could be found as well as the evidence of osteointegration. The average Harris Hip Score for these patients was 85. The primary stability using this neck prosthesis is guaranteed by a solid impaction of the intertrochanteric spongiosa around the sliding device. The secondary stability is guaranteed by a periprosthetic corticalisation of the spongy contact surfaces to the surface of the prosthesis. In a prospective study the usefulness of the new femur neck prosthesis following the principle of a sliding device was evaluated in those cases with a fracture complication at the hip joint after a conventional osteosynthesis. The device utilizes metaphyseal implantation stabilized by a conical oval implant which fits into a conventional sliding hip fracture plate. Osteointegration is based on the corticalization of the cancellous bone in contact with the prosthesis. A decisive importance is that the proximal part of the femur remains unhurt because the preparation is limited to the proximal hip joint area. By this measurement the femur neck prosthesis with its extrametaphyseal orientated component of stabilization by the remaining sliding device at the lateral cortical bone is saving bony substance in a relevant way. It is evident that the implanted sliding device with a lateral plate at the cortical bone to a high rate is partially or totally over bridged by new formed bone. It seems to be an advantage not to be obliged to chisel out the plate. Besides this the major advantage is the sparing of a proximal femur allowing easy revision to a convention and total hip prosthesis if required and the relatively simple technique of implanting it into an existing fracture fixation advice.
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Case 15.1
36 years old female
Medial femur neck fracture, AO classification 31 B 1-2 Stable impacted subcapital abduction fracture Osteosynthesis by 2-hole DMS Femur head necrosis 4 years pop. Implant removal and implantation of a femur neck prosthesis
Fig. 15.1.1. Day of accident (axial view).
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Fig. 15.1.3 b. Femoral head necrosis 4 years pop., axial view.
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Fig. 15.1.7. X-ray check after 6 years.
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Case 16.1
94 years old female
Distal femur fracture, hip prosthesis in situ, AO classification 33 A 1-2 Extraarticular metaphyseal wedge fracture Osteosynthesis by 8-hole DMS Fissure between distal end of prosthesis and proximal rim of the plate Implant removal and reosteosynthesis by 14-hole DMS
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Fig. 16.1.2. Pop. x-ray check, fissure between distal end of prosthesis and proximal rim of the plate.
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Fig. 16.1.4. X-ray check after 2 weeks pop.
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Case 16.2
80 years old female
Distal femur fracture, bicondylar knee prosthesis in situ, AO classification 33 A 1-2 Extraarticular metaphyseal wedge fracture Osteosynthesis by 10-hole DMS
Fig. 16.2.1. Gonarthrosis preoperative x-ray.
Fig. 16.2.2. Pop. x-ray check after implantation of the bicondylar knee prosthesis.
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Fig. 16.2.4. X-ray check after 1 month.
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82 years old female
1) Intertrochanteric femur fracture, AO classification 31 A 1-1 2) Intertrochanteric femur fracture, AO classification 31 A 1-3 Sequential bilateral intertrochanteric femur fracture by 2nd bang 1 year later Sequential osteosynthesis by 4-hole DMS
Fig. 16.3.1. Day of accident, right side.
Fig. 16.3.3. Day of accident, left side.
Fig. 16.3.2. Pop. x-ray check, right side.
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Fig. 16.3.4 b. Pop. x-ray check, left side lateral view.
Fig. 16.3.5. X-ray check after 3 weeks, left side and 13 months, right side.
Fig. 16.3.6. X-ray check after 3 months, left side and 15 months, right side.
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Fig. 16.4 b. Intertrochanteric and subtrochanteric proximal femur fracture on the right side. Stabilization by 8-hole DMS (2001) Second trauma with comminuted intertrochanteric femur fracture on the left side. Stabilization by long PFN (2005).
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Fig. 16.6 a–d – The second trauma – Bilateral sequential fractures (1st trauma: * PFF n = 50 * FNF n = 41) (2nd trauma: * PFF n = 45 * FNF n = 46).
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Bilateral sequential fractures show very differenciated phenomenas. In a serie of 91 cases which were treated between 2000 and 2004 over a period of 5 years the first trauma had caused a proximal femur fracture in 50 cases while a femur neck fracture occured in 41 cases. The second trauma took place between 1 and 8 years after the first fracture (on the average 2½ years passed in between the two events). The second trauma led
in 45 cases on the contralateral side to a proximal femur fracture while in 46 cases a femur neck fracture was the result of the second fall. The outcome after the second trauma was negatively influenced by the meanwhile reduced general condition of the patients on the one side and on the other side by the fact that the mobility of all patients showed a deterioration also influenced by advanced age and multimorbidity.
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Concerning the cases when a fracture event has happened with the findings of a pre-existing coxarthrosis at the same joint the question whether a conventional osteosynthesis or a primary endoprothesis is better indicated has to be answered immediately. In most cases the preferable way of treatment will be the conventional
osteosynthesis whenever it is possible and a secondary total hip replacement after the fracture healing period has passed. In the presented special case a Dynamic Martin Prosthesis was used in connection with the 4-hole-DMS using the modularity between femur neck prothesis and implant.
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The future!
Century of the aged!
] More work – Increased fracture rates – More complex fracture forms – Shortening of personnel ] More costs – Case explosions – Rising insurance rates – Extended rehabilitations ] More problems – Secondary bangs – Combined injuries by osteoporosis – Budget shortenings Fig. 16.8. The future in traumatology.
] Yesterday: ] Today: ] Tomorrow:
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The surgery of the aged will be one of the main topics in traumatology in the future. Fig. 16.10. Development of the elder patient group under stationary treatment over 65 years (statistical data from the Marienhospital Stuttgart)
Fig. 16.12. Osteosynthesis failure: implant failure, angle blade plate
Fig. 16.9
] Many of us will live long. ] 40% of women and 20% of men celebrate their 85th birthday. ] But not many of us will be in a good physical condition at the end of a long life-time. ] 30% of the population over 70 years suffer one fall per year. ] 50% with more than 80 years suffer several falls per year. ] 1 year later 1/3 of the patients have died or are bedridden. ] Only 1/4 of the patients with a hip fracture can walk as good as before the trauma and the osteosynthesis. Fig. 16.11. Century of the aged
Fig. 16.13. Osteosynthesis failure: cutting out, gamma nail
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17 Systemic antibiotics in the prophylaxis and therapy of postoperative infections in patients with osteosynthesis of the femur S. Decker-Burgard
Infection is the outcome of various interactions between a host, a potential pathogen and the environment. Infection occurs, when micro-organisms successfully evade the host defense. Surgical wounds may heal by primary intention (with apposed wound edges) or secondary intention (when the wound is left open), whereas it has been shown that a delay of wound closure
A Surgical considerations Surgical classification Skin preparation Site, duration and complexity of surgery Presence of suture or foreign body Suturing quality Prte-existing local or systemic infection Prophylactic antibiotics Haematoma Mechanical stress on wound
Decreased collagen synthesis Affected by B and C
of four to five days increases the resistance to infection [11]. There are a multitude of factors that affect surgical wound healing. Wound infection can occur as a result of various surgical conditions, anaesthetic considerations and patient related factors (Fig. 17.1).
B Anaesthetic considerations Tissue perfusion Normovolaemia/hypovolaemia Perioperative body temperature Concentration of inspired oxygen Pain Blood transfusion
Increased vasoconstriction Affected by B and C
C Patient-related factors Diabetes Smoking Poor nutrition Alcoholism Chronic renal failure Jaundice Obesity Advanced age Poor physical condition Medication Previous radiotherapy or chemotherapy Malignancics Underlying chronic disease Previous organ transplantation Increased immunosuppression Affected by A, B, and C
Decreased tissue perfusion
Decreased collagen deposition
Decreased PTO2
Decreased neutrophil bactericidal activity
Decreased wound tensile strength
Wound breakdown
Increased wound infection
Poor wound healing
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Surgical site infections are a real risk associated with any surgical procedure and represent a significant burden regarding patient morbidity and mortality, as well as health care costs. Modern surgical techniques as well as the use of antibiotic prophylaxis have reduced this risk, but deep wound infections are still a wellknown complication in osteosynthetic surgery, with a consequence of prolonged hospital admission – followed by increased costs – a reduced activity level and often a reduced quality of life. Wound infections can also be life threatening in people undergoing surgery for thigh and other long bone fractures. According to Noer et al. [4] wound infections accounted for approximately 25% of all complications in a total of 4346 orthopaedic surgical operations in patients (mean age 47.3 yrs). The main aetiological factor for postoperative infections might be perioperative bacterial contamination. Surgical wounds are classified according to their level of microbial contamination. The level of bacterial burden is the most significant risk factor for the development of a wound infection. The US National Research Council group developed a classification scheme (Table 17.1), which is being widely used to predict the rate of infection after surgery. The classification of operative wounds (Table 17.1) is important to identify surgical proce-
dures with a high risk of infection, but further risk factors for infection, like a prolonged duration of surgery, implantation of foreign bodies and patient factors (e.g. compromised host defenses) have to be considered as well in order to identify patients with a higher risk for postoperative infection [9].
Causative pathogens The most frequent causes of postoperative infections in orthopaedic surgery are organisms that make up the skin flora, e.g. Staphyloccus aureus and S. epidermidis. Staphylococci are responsible for up to 70–90% of postoperative infections [9], but Streptococci, Enterococci, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Anaerobes should be considered as causative for postoperative wound infections as well (Table 17.2).
Antibiotic prophylaxis Aim of the antibiotic prophylaxis is the prevention of an infection. Antibiotic prophylaxis can be characterized as primary prophylaxis, secondary prophylaxis (suppression) and eradica-
Table 17.1. Classification of operative wounds bases on degree of microbial contamination (adapted from [9]) Classification
Wound infection rate
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Original Risk factors localisation
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Colonisation factors: uRTIs, antibiotic therapy, hospital admission, diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure
Extracellular products of S. aureus: leucozidine, exfoliative toxin, toxicshock-syndrome, enterotoxine
MSSA: Betalactams (e.g. first and second generation cephalosporins, penicillin), aminoglycosides, rifampicin plus fluoroquinolones (e.g. levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin) MRSA: glycopeptides (teicoplanin, vancomycin) plus rifampicin, followed by rifampicin plus levofloxacin or plus ciprofloxacin, quinupristin-dalfopristin, linezolide
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Oxacillin-resistant: glycopeptides (teicoplanin, vancomycin), quinupristin-dalfopristin, linezolide
Except S. agalactiae
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] Streptococcus spp. ] Enterococcus spp.
intestinum
] Pseudomonas aeruginosa
ubiquitous
] Anaerobes, e.g. clostridine
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tion. Perioperative prophylaxis in patients undergoing surgery is a primary prophylaxis, referring to the prevention of an initial infection. The value of antibiotic prophylaxis against infection in patients with total joint replacement is well established and international standard, while the use of antibiotic prophylaxis in patients with osteosynthesis remained controversial for a long time, since only few reliable data existed and part of these studies have been flawed by an improper choice of agent(s), inappropriate dosage or route of administration, or failure to institute therapy well beyond the time of the initial surgical incision [1]. But meanwhile, antibiotic prophylaxis is recommended as standard care in clean surgery involving prosthetic devices [9]. In the US, over 90% of hospi-
Biofilm: infections with high letality
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tals use antibiotic prophylaxis in patients with osteosynthesis [2]. According to a Cochrane review [3], including data from 8307 patients in 22 randomized or quasi randomized controlled trials, which were undergoing surgery for internal fixation or replacement arthroplasty after hip or long bone fracture single dose antibiotic prophylaxis significantly reduced deep wound infections, superficial wound infections, urinary infections and respiratory tract infections. The authors concluded that antibiotic prophylaxis should be offered to those undergoing surgery for closed fracture fixation. Aargard et al. [5] evaluated over a period of two years 688 patients with osteosynthesis of hip fractures with regard to wound infections and other postoperative complications. The
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overall rate of deep wound infections was significantly lower in patients treated with prophylactic antibiotics (0–6%), compared with those without prophylaxis (4–6%). Patients with deep wound infections had a prolonged hospital stay (average 43.7 days), compared with those without complications (14.6 days). The use of prophylactic cefuroxime in hip fracture osteosynthesis has been recommended. Only few controlled randomized clinical trials evaluated the efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis in traumatology. In closed fractures, three studies [6–8] have been conducted and showed efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis using a 1–3 day prophylaxis with cephalosporins of the 1st or 2nd generation of a penicillinase-resistant penicillin. All studies showed a reduced frequency of deep wound infections in open fractures. Treatment with cephalothin or isoxazolyl-penicillin showed a significant drop of the infection rate. Rittmann et al. [2] concluded that open and closed fractures can profit from a antibiotic prophylaxis over 24 hours, which starts immediately before surgery. Alternative antibiotics like glycopeptides (e.g. teicoplanin) have to be considered as antibiotic prophylaxis in hospitals with a high prevalence of methicillin-resistant staphylococci. 4 randomised controlled trials including 2406 patients showed that a single dose of teicoplanin is as efficacious and as well tolerated as multiple dose cephalosporin regimes for prophylaxis in prosthetic joint surgery [19].
Selection of antibiotics Besides the comparative efficacy of an appropriate antimicrobial agent, the safety-profile of the drug and patient-specific conditions (e.g. drug allergies) should be considered. Furthermore therapy costs, ease of administration, PK-profile and antibacterial activity, as well as local resistance rates should be taken into consideration. Therefore, an appropriate antibiotic drug should cover the most common surgical wound pathogens, i.e. in clean operations gram positive pathogens like S. aureus and S. epidermidis [1]. Cefazolin, as a first-generation-cephalosporine is recommended as regime of the first choice by the ASHP therapeutic guidelines [1] because of its long duration of action, its effectiveness against the most common pathogens in clean surgery (e.g. Staphylococcus species and gram-negative bacilli) and its relatively low costs. But it should not be used in cases with possible or confirmed ESBL-producing pathogens or MRSA and methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci, which are resistant to all cephalosporines. Vancomycin, however, which is recommended as alternative regime, should be used only in major surgical procedures involving the implantation of prosthetic materials or devices when a high rate of infections due to MRSA or MRSE is expected or in patients with a life-threatening allergy to betalactam antibiotics. This restriction is based on
Table 17.3. Recommendations for surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis in adults in patients with implantation of internal fixation device Recommended regime
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Comments
] First-generation cephalosporins, e.g. cefazolin 1 g i.v. at induction of anaesthesia and every 8 h for 24 h [1, 16] or
In patients with known allergy or adverse reaction to betalactam antibiotics or expected high rate of MRSA or MRSE [1, 15]: ] vancomycin 15 mg/kg/iv
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the increase of vancomycin-resistant enterococci. But since the frequency of methicillin-resistant staphylococci is steadily increasing during the recent years, alternative antibiotics like glycopeptides (e.g. vancomycin, teicoplanin) are to taken into consideration while choosing an adequate antibiotic for prevention of infection in clean surgery. Teicoplanin can be considered as an appropriate substance due to its proven coverage of the known resistant strains, its multicompartmental penetration, its long half-life and relative safety in administration [17]. Additionally, fluorchinolones are valid alternatives to cephalosporines due to their good pharmacokinetic properties. Bone concentrations are re-
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Table 17.4. Recommendation for perioperative administration of antibiotics [15] (modified) Grade of recommendation Recommendations A
Broad-spectrum antibiotics: administration within 60 min of incision time; continued up to 24 h postoperatively. Longer antibiotic prophylaxis is not warranted in elective procedures or closed fracture care Open fracture: administration of antibiotics urgently, continued for 24 h postoperatively. A first-generation cephalosporin should be used for all open fractures when not otherwise contradicted
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Table 17.5. Pharmacokinetic properties of antibiotics active against staphylococcus [9, 13, 14] (modified) Drug
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Application of antibiotics for perioperative prophylaxis The antibiotic should be given before the initial skin incision to ensure sufficient concentration in the targeted tissues. Preferred route of administration is intravenous because it produces reliable and predictable serum and tissue concentrations. At a minimum, antibiotic coverage should cover the time from incision to the closure of incision [1]. Therefore, the ideal time to start the perioperative prophylaxis would be within 30 min to 1 h prior incision and should continue 24 h or less, according to the duration of the surgical procedure [1].
] Pharmacokinetics of antibiotics Antibiotic prophylaxis of infections in clean surgery requires antibiotics with a sufficient half-life to cover organisms until the end of the surgical procedure. If the half-life of the chosen antibiotic is not long enough to cover until the end of the operation, an additional intraopera-
tive dose is indicated. Cephalosporins are recommended for antibiotic prophylaxis due to their sufficient pharmacokinetics as well as fluorquinolones and glycopeptides. All antibiotics listed in Table 17.5 have a good to excellent volume of distribution. Additionally, cephalosporins, fluorochinolones, rifampicin and glycopeptides penetrate in bone well [9].
] Tolerability profiles Antibiotics with a favourable tolerability profile are cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones and glycopeptides (Table 17.6). In comparative trials, teicoplanin appears to have a better tolerability profile than vancomycin. Anaphylactic reactions due to vancomycin such as the “red man syndrome” and significant hypotension during perioperative prophylaxis have been consistently described, while these reactions have rarely occurred with teicoplanin. Due to safety considerations, aminoglycosides and lincosamides are not recommended for use as surgical prophylaxis [9].
Table 17.6. Tolerability profiles of antibiotics active against staphylococci [9] (modified) Antibiotic class
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] Rifampicin
Hepatotoxicity
Marrow suppression, renal failure
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Background Until heparins were introduced to clinical practice at the start of the 1970s, thromboembolic events were common complications which jeopardized the outcome of surgery. Without prophylaxis, risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) was 40–60% in hospitalized patients undergoing major orthopaedic surgery (Geerts et al. 2004). Therefore patients with hip surgery should be assigned to the ] ‘high-risk group’ for thromboses as classified in the German Guidelines (Encke et al. 2003) or ] ‘highest risk group’ as defined by the “Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy” (Geerts et al. 2004). The rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) found in patients receiving either placebo or no prophylaxis are listed in Table 18.1. Thromboses are often not detected at all, or just too late. In studies, no relevant clinical signs were reported prior to phlebographic screening following hip replacement surgery in up to nine out of ten patients with thrombosis (Eriksson et al. 1991). As swelling and pain in the operated leg are typical complaints after hip surgery clinical symptoms of DVT may be misconstrued. In Table 18.1. Prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE) after hip surgery (placebo or no prophylaxis) (derived from Geerts et al. 2004) Surgery
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Individual risk factors of thrombosis The individual risk in a patient to develop a DVT is generated by ] various predisposing risk factors which already exist (Table 18.2) and ] risks in association with the current surgical procedure. In order to identify hereditary risks the relevant family history should be checked prior to surgery. At the time of discharge from the hospital, the individual circumstances are of particular interest. Following hip arthroplasty, independent predictors of re-hospitalization due to VTE within 3 months were ] body-mass index of ³ 25 ] age ³ 85 years ] female sex ] history of thromboembolism (White et al. 2000).
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the presence of respective symptoms, consistent early diagnostic measures to exclude thrombosis are hence an important part of postoperative care for hip surgery patients.
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Routine use of prophylactic measures is recommended for all patients undergoing hip surgery. Numerous physical and pharmacological methods are available. Physical measures primarily aim at an increase of blood flow velocity in the veins and a prevention of venous pooling whereas pharmacological prophylaxis primarily
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Table 18.2. Predisposing risk factors of DVT (derived from Encke et al. 2003) Acquired risk factors ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ]
Inherited or acquired defects of hemostasis (examples)
Advanced age (> 50 years, risk increasing with age) ] APC resistance/Factor V Leiden mutation ] Deficiency of protein S, protein C or antithrombin Malignant disease ] Prothrombin G20210A mutation Pregnancy and postpartum period ] Antiphospholipid syndrome Severe systemic infection Therapy with or blockade of sexual hormones (including contraception and hormone replacement therapy) Nephrotic syndrome Cardiac insufficiency NYHA III8 or IV8 Chronic venous insufficiency Obesity (body mass index > 30) History of venous thromboembolic event
Table 18.3. Physical methods of prophylaxis in hip surgery (derived from Encke et al. 2003) Basic approaches
Additional methods
] Physiotherapy ] Early mobilisation ] Gradual compression stockings (carefully fitted)
] Early surgery for fracture to shorten duration of preoperative immobilisation ] Patient guidance on self-exercise ] Circulatory therapy ] Respiratory therapy ] Intermittent pneumatic leg compression ] Active and passive movements in the ankle
inhibits coagulation. An additive effect is hence generally expected by combining these prophylactic measures.
] Physical methods of prophylaxis Physical measures to prevent DVT in total hip replacement allow for a relative risk reduction of 20 to 70% which is less effective than current pharmacologic protocols (Geerts et al. 2004). Therefore, physical measures are commonly used to further decrease the thrombotic risk. Nonpharmacologic methods with effect on thrombotic risk are listed in Table 18.3.
] Pharmacological measures In patients with elective hip arthroplasty lowmolecular-weight heparins (LMWH), fondaparinux or Vitamin K antagonists were recommended by the seventh ACCP conference (Table 18.4). Whereas subcutaneous prophylaxis with
LMWH is preferred in Europe oral anticoagulation with Vitamin K antagonists is more commonly used in North America. A direct comparison with the LMWH dalteparin suggested the efficacy of Vitamin K antagonists to be significantly worse in hip surgery patients (Hull et al. 2000). Geerts et al. (2004) recommended against the use of low-dose unfractionated heparin (LDUH), aspirin and dextran as the only method to prevent thrombosis in hip arthroplasty. In hip fracture surgery, Geerts et al. (2004) mentioned LDUH in addition to the options listed in Table 18.4, and recommended LDUH or LMWH for prophylaxis in the period between admission to the hospital and hip fracture surgery if the procedure is likely to be delayed.
] Indications and dosing of various LMWH Before prescribing LMWH differences specific to the various preparations and to the approved indications/dosing regimen (see Summaries of Product Characteristics) should be considered
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Dose
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Usual high-risk dose Usual high-risk dose Half the usual high-risk dose followed by an increase to the usual high-risk dose (next day)
12 h before surgery 12–24 h after surgery 4–6 h after surgery *
] Fondaparinux
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Adjusted, INR target 2.5 (range: 2.0 to 3.0)
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* Alternative dosing regimen not mentioned by Geerts et al. (2004) which is registered in some countries for the LMWH dalteparin: Half the high-risk dose (2 500 anti-Xa U) 2 h before surgery, second dose 8 to 12 h after the first dose (earliest 4 h after surgery) followed by once daily high-risk dose (5 000 anti-Xa U) on the next days.
to avoid insufficient prophylaxis. For example, an inadequate daily dose of 2500 anti-Xa U dalteparin in high-risk procedures (abdominal surgery for malignancy) increased the incidence of DVT from 8.5 to 14.9% (p < 0.001) (Bergqvist et al. 1995). Certain LMWHs are registered with fixed dosages for prophylaxis, while the doses of others should be weight-adjusted in high-risk orthopaedic surgeries (Encke et al. 2003). Selecting a suitable LMWH and following the recommended dosage scheme are important contributory factors towards an optimized efficacy and tolerability of the prophylaxis.
] Pre-filled syringes versus multidose vials of LMWH On one hand, a single LMWH-dose is generally cheaper – in arithmetical terms – when taken from a multidose vial than from a pre-filled syringe. On the other hand, advocates of pre-filled syringes proclaim their dosage accuracy and fear a risk regarding safety when using multidose vials. A study was therefore conducted at the Hospital for Trauma Surgery of the Marienhospital Stuttgart, Germany (Rapp et al. 2001). In 1999, 273 patients undergoing surgery to the proximal femur were given high-risk prophylaxis with Fragmin® (dalteparin, daily dose: 5 000 anti-Xa U) from multidose vials. In the subsequent year prophylaxis was switched to dalteparin pre-filled syringes. After a further 170 patients a significant difference had already been revealed. Necessity for surgical revision of a haematoma was significantly reduced by the use of pre-filled syringes
(4.7% versus 10.6%, p < 0.05). VTE rate was 0.6% with pre-filled syringes versus 2.2% with multidose vials (p = n.s.). Therefore, the use of multidose vials may lead to relevant under- or overdosage.
] Duration of pharmacological thromboprophylaxis following hip surgery It has been demonstrated that a risk of thrombosis continues to exist until the 35th day postoperatively after hip replacement surgery. Phlebographic screening covering the period “day 7 to day 35” ascertained thrombosis rates of between 12% and 26% if pharmacological prophylaxis was not used following hospitalisation (Dahl et al 1997, Lassen et al. 1998). Hypercoagulability persisted for about 35 days and was significantly reduced by the LMWH dalteparin (Arnesen et al. 2003). Several studies confirmed the benefit of prophylaxis with LMWH or fondaparinux for 28 to 35 days after total hip replacement or hip fracture surgery (Bergqvist et al. 1996, Planes et al. 1996, Dahl et al. 1997, Lassen et al. 1998, Hull et al. 2000, Comp et al. 2001, Eriksson et al. 2003). An increased risk of bleeding was not seen from 35 days of LMWH application. Therefore, prolonged thromboprophylaxis for up to 28 to 35 days is recommended after total hip replacement or hip fracture surgery (Encke et al. 2003, Geerts et al. 2004). Another criterion for the duration of prophylaxis is the degree of mobility. The German Orthopaedic Association defined three prerequi-
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sites to be fulfilled before termination of prophylaxis (Pauschert et al. 1998): ] mobilisation for 4 to 6 hours per day ] partial load of leg ³ 20 kp ] free flexibility of the ankle joint
Relevant side effects of subcutaneous pharmacological prophylaxis in hip surgery Heparins have been investigated extensively with a view to side effects. It can basically be concluded that the incidence of side effects under LMWH is much lower than with unfractionated heparin.
] check for dosing errors ] determine anti-Xa level ] consider dose reduction or discontinuation of anticoagulant (and protamin for reversal of LMWH as an additional option). Injection haematomas represent a further, albeit only mild, side effect which is often felt by patients, however, to be stressful. After hip surgery the abdominal subcutaneous fatty tissue is to be favoured as the site of injection. Injection in the non-operated thigh would in fact also be possible, but in the event of more extensive bruising would lead to discomfort, which in the early mobilisation phase of the patient in particular would be undesirable.
] Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia ] Bleeding complications In patients undergoing hip surgery, prophylaxis with LMWH is generally well tolerated with regard to bleeding risk if recommendations listed in the summary of product characteristic (SmPC) are followed. An interval of about 12 hours between administration of a pre-OP highrisk dose of specific LMWH and the surgical intervention was defined to avoid an increase in bleeding risk (Bergqvist and Hull 2006). If an immediate surgical intervention is required, half of the high-risk dose may be administered preoperatively or prophylaxis may be started after surgery. Dosing regimens differ between LMWH. Therefore, surgeons may select an anticoagulant with dosing recommendations which fit to their needs in clinical practice. In patients with severe renal insufficiency treated with fondaparinux or specific LMWH bleeding risk may be increased due to a lack of dose adjustment. Physicians should be aware that LMWH are different preparations and differ with respect to the extent of their renal elimination (Stöbe et al. 2006, Tincani et al. 2006, Mahe et al. 2007). For example, a dose reduction by 25% to 30 mg/day is recommended in patients with creatinine clearance below 30 mL/min receiving enoxaparin for high-risk prophylaxis. In case of a bleeding complication during prophylaxis with LMWH or fondaparinux it is important to ] exclude surgical bleeding ] determine renal function
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia type II (HIT II) is a life-threatening adverse drug reaction to heparin. A decrease of platelets can be explained by an antibody-mediated activation of platelets with subsequent thrombin generation, platelet aggregation and platelet consumption. Venous and/or arterial thromboembolic events may occur. Skin necroses may be another symptom of HIT II. The following findings during heparin administration or up to three weeks after cessation of heparin should lead to the suspicion of HIT II: ] drop in platelets by ³ 50% as compared to the peak postoperative value and/or ] new thromboembolic complication. Some Summaries of Product Characteristics (SmPC) for heparins state that HIT II is to be ruled out if platelet count falls below 100 000/ll. However, more recent data suggest that the percentage decrease is most relevant (Greinacher 2007). Algorithms for screening and diagnosis of HIT II may be useful to identify patients with HIT II (Warkentin and Greinacher 2007, Greinacher 2007). Non-immunological HIT (type I) may be considered in the event of a drop in platelets as well. The falls ensue from transient activation of the platelets in 5 to 30% of patients at the start of heparin therapy. Usually, the drop in platelets is lower than with HIT II. Further clinically remarkable events are not to be anticipated in HIT type I.
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] Other side effects Heparin-induced osteoporosis is clinical important over long-term application of more than six weeks and was predominantly seen in patients treated with unfractionated heparin whereas the risk during long-term LMWH-prophylaxis is very low (Pettila et al. 2002, Rodger et al. 2007). Should there be a postoperative increase in transaminases and/or LDH in hip surgery patients, then differential diagnosis should include the consideration of heparin side effects. These laboratory values usually return to normal upon discontinuation of heparin. Such changes are not attributed clinical importance. Further side effects of heparins (e.g. pruritus, cutaneous efflorescences, etc.) are listed in the respective Summaries of Product Characteristics as well as side effects of fondaparinux and Vitamin K antagonists which are not mentioned here.
Forensic aspects of thromboprophylaxis Forensic matters play an outstanding role in thromboprophylaxis, as the consequences of thrombosis for the patients can be severe (e.g. post-thrombotic syndrome or fatal pulmonary embolism). Frequent sources of error are as follows: ] insufficient prophylactic measures (e.g. ASA) ] too short a period of prophylaxis ] too low a dose of anticoagulant ] the patient being provided with inadequate explanations ] misinterpretation of clinical symptoms of thrombosis ] inadequate diagnosis of thrombosis ] inadequate screening for HIT II (Haas 1998)
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Any postoperative deep venous thrombosis, in the worst case in connection with thromboembolism, can be described as the most serious complication and the leading cause of death in orthopaedic and trauma surgery. The incidence of postoperative deep venous thrombosis according to the late literature can be found between 5 and 20% in the specific patient group (according to own experiences). Clinical relevant lung embolism is found between 1 and 2% after orthopaedic and trauma surgery in the hip joint area (according to own experiences). These facts show that every postoperative thrombosis until our days still remains a threatening problem with possible disastrous consequences. Thromboprophylaxis is necessary in all situations when reduction of mobility takes place. Therefore prophylactic measures are necessary in connection with any type of immobilisation under critical indication. Early operative procedures and early mobilisation can help to reduce the risk of the event of a thrombosis as well as the invitation to the patient to start and to continue with own exercises, which should be demonstrated to him. Low dose heparin medicamentation does not always guarantee a sufficient reduction of the risk of a thrombosis. Therefore the low molecular heparins have better pharmaceutical characteristics giving the patient and the doctor a better protection in the high risk area in trauma and emergency as well as elective operations. The physiotherapist is the best ally of the orthopaedic surgeon in almost all cases because an effective physiotherapy guarantees the reduction or the avoidance of a broad spectrum of complications and disabilities by an adequate and comprehensive physiotherapeutic follow up treatment.
Pre-surgical Often pre-surgical evaluation and instruction by a physiotherapist is not possible, if the surgery is not planned ahead. Young people have accidents in sports or other leisure time activities. The neck of femur also breaks because of recurrent microtrauma. Elderly people often fall and in many cases the neck of femur breaks because of a spontaneous osteoporotic fracture. Apart from the psychological stress of the accident and the strange situation in hospital, in older patients physical strength strongly influences the recovery. After surgery older people are often confronted with too much, are not flexible, and react apathetically about the new situation. Because of that physiotherapists should counteract the impaired coordination of movement, the diminished abilities of memory and concentration and the decreased strength, coordination and stamina with appropriate and creative exercises. In order to achieve a good relationship between the therapist and the patient one should avoid expecting too much or to little during therapy. The following 10 points have positive influence to motivate the patient to a good cooperation: For the treatment: 1. Clear instructions 2. Keep eye contact 3. Patience 4. Take enough time 5. Simple exercises of short duration 6. Exercises in painless range 7. Sufficient breaks (watch for breathing, blood pressure and pulse) 8. Sufficient repetitions 9. Easy program for home exercises 10. Exercises for daily routine and occupation.
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If a pre-surgical evaluation for physiotherapy is possible, some measures which are important after surgery should be pointed out to the patients. It would be ideal to explain and practice the exercises with the patients before surgery. ] Breathing exercises ] Precaution against thrombosis ] Practice walking on forearm crutches (correct length of crutches!) ] General rules how to behave in daily routine (for example resting up legs) ] One-sided bridging (as a pre-exercise for hygiene of the body).
Surgery As mentioned in the previous chapter. Often conditions like anesthesia, pain of the wound, hematoma, edema, muscles spasm and the drainage lead to problems and restrictions at the first days after surgery.
Prescribing physiotherapy and physical therapy Physiotherapy (x) Physiotherapy (x) Breathing exercises (always in elder patients and patients in reduced state of health) ( ) State of strain
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Early physiotherapy At the first day after surgery the patient is treated passively in bed, if possible actively with assistance. The treatment focuses on the quadriceps muscle and the abductor muscles, which are the first to atrophy and therefore have to be given priority in the treatment. All of the four muscle groups at the thigh should have a grade of strength of three, which means holding the specific weight of the leg. In early treatment it should be stressed that all the exercises are done in painless range or with little pain. One always has to pay attention to the patient’s subjective sensation of pain. Pain after stitch-removal or drainage is tolerable. At the same time special emphasis should be given to the reduction of hematoma and the elimination of edema (after removal of drainage ice up to twice a day). If one stick to the rules mentioned above one can achieve the best possible contraction of the muscle and function is therefore optimized. The interplay between the muscle, osteosynthesis, and the load-carrying capacity of the femur should be well balanced in comparison to the weight bearing. If this is not possible to achieve, pain, guarding, avoiding movements, limping, and osteoporosis of the bone might occur, so that the patient is hardly motivated to move at all. Most commonly the surgeon prescribes weight bearing of 20 kg. The patient is only able to keep to this weight bearing of 20 kg properly, if the interplay of the four muscle groups of the thigh and of the leg work perfectly, a grade of strength of three is achieved and if the patient is reasonably pain-free and able to move. Properly adjusted forearm crutches and the practice of a “three-point-gait” are necessary.
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If possible get patient out of bed in a chair (with a higher seat) postoperative at first day. To control the desired weight bearing, the patient can walk in “three-point-gait” with his crutches on a scale on the ground. While walking, this weight bearing can not be kept up if the patient lacks strength in the upper arm to put his own weight on the forearm crutches. Bergmann et al. (1989) wrote about different stress on the hip in different positions. “There is a stress of 30% of the body weight in sitting position. While getting up from a chair without support of hands up to 220%; with support of hands 110%, while putting weight on both legs about 70% and while walking up to 300% of body weight.” These functional factors are of great importance for mechanical stability in physiotherapy “While doing active exercises against resistance in lying position strains on the hip joint up to 280% of body weight and while doing supportive exercises strains up to 50% of body weight are reached. With forearm crutches the strain can be decreased by 25%.” The stability in exercises depends upon putting a reasonable load, muscle tension, and body weight on the osteosynthesis and uses it sensibly. Furtheron the weight bearing can be increased symptomatically by about 5 kg per week, when there is improvement of the muscle function, mobility and coordination. By the 7th week, full weight bearing on the affected leg should be achieved (rehabilitation, “AHB”, outpatient treatment).
Therapeutic exercises ] Day after surgery a) Precaution against pneumonia Respiratory intensification by the temporary immobilization is supported by: ] guided breathing ] perception of breathing (“Basaltexte, Schaarschuch-Haase”) ] change of position ] special devices (Monoflow, Triflow) ] movement (passive, active).
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The varieties of exercises are examples for therapy. It is not necessary to do all the exercises with the patient. It is the therapist’s duty to choose the appropriate specific exercises for each individual patient. Also the repetition of the exercises and the times per day has to be adjusted to the abilities of the patient. Avoiding pain is very important. The patient is always right! If it is possible the therapist should discuss over a home program of exercises.
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20 Operative revisional management M. Rapp, K.-K. Dittel
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Complication: subtrochanteric pseudarthrosis
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Subtrochanteric femur fracture, AO classification 32 B 2-1 Osteosynthesis by proximal femur nail (PFN) Subtrochanteric femur pseudarthrosis and implant failure after repeated fall Implant removal and reosteosynthesis by 9-hole condylar blade plate and additional autogenous spongy plasty Delayed fracture healing and varus malposition of the proximal fragment Implant removal, valgisation osteotomy and reosteosynthesis by 6-hole DMS
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Fig. 20.1.3. Subtrochanteric femur pseudarthrosis and implant failure.
Fig. 20.1.4. Pop. check after implant removal and reosteosynthesis by 9-hole condylar blade plate and additional autogenous spongy plasty.
Fig. 20.1.5. Delayed fracture healing and varus malposition 3 months after reosteosynthesis.
Fig. 20.1.6. Implant removal, valgisation osteotomy and reosteosynthesis by 6-hole DMS.
Fig. 20.1.7. X-ray check after 3 months.
Fig. 20.1.8. X-ray check after 6 months.
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Revisional management case 20.2 Complication: implant cutting out of the head neck fragment
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Intertrochanteric femur fracture, AO classification 31 A 2-3 Osteosynthesis by 4-hole DMS Lag screw cutting out of the head neck fragment after 2nd bang Implant removal and implantation of a cemented hip prosthesis
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Intertrochanteric femur fracture, AO classification 31 A 3-3 Osteosynthesis by 6-hole DMS Femur head perforation after full weight bearing Implant removal and implantation of a cemented tumor prosthesis
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Fig. 20.3.3. Femur head perforation by the lag screw.
Fig. 20.3.4. X-ray check after implant removal and implantation of a cemented tumour prosthesis.
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Revisional management case 20.4 Complication: femur head necrosis
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Medial femur neck fracture, AO classification 31 B 1-3 Osteosynthesis by 2-hole and additional intertrochanteric lag screw Femur head necrosis 15 weeks after primary stabilization Implant removal and implantation of a cemented hip prosthesis
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Intertrochanteric femur fracture, AO classification 31 A 2-2 Enclosed arthrodesis nail at the knee joint Osteosynthesis by 4-hole DMS Implant dislocation by 2nd bang Reosteosynthesis by a 14-hole DMS
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Fig. 20.5.2. Pop. x-ray check.
Fig. 20.5.3. Implant dislocation 4 weeks pop. (second bang).
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Revisional management case 20.6 Complication: Primary malpositioned supporting screw – secondary cutting out
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Intertrochanteric reversed femur fracture, AO classification 31 A 3-3 Osteosynthesis by 8-hole DMS plate and intraoperative valgisation Secondary cutting out because of primary malpositioned supporting screw Reosteosynthesis by 8-hole DMS
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Fig. 20.6.6. X-ray check after 16 months and after implant removal.
Fig. 20.6.5. X-ray check after 12 months.
21 Evidence-based drug treatment of osteoporosis K. K. Förster, K. M. Peters
Introduction Osteoporosis is a common age-related bone deterioration associated with a slow loss of cortical and trabecular bone in men and women. It usually starts in the fourth or fifth decade. Years of bone loss follow a dysbalance between bone resorption and bone formation, and cortical and trabecular bone loss accelerate in women after menopause leading to osteoporosis (Figs. 21.1 and 21.2). Osteoporosis literally means “porous bone” and involves skeletal fragility leading to an increased risk of fracture, due to a microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue. Osteoporosis is probably the most common metabolic disease in the world becoming an increasing public health problem in most countries (Sambrook
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and Cooper 2006). According to a consensus statement published in 2000 the NIH defines osteoporosis as a “skeletal disorder characterized by compromised bone strength, with predisposition to an increased risk of fracture”. The World Health Organization describes osteoporosis as a metabolic disorder with a bone density of 2.5 SD below the mean for young adult white women with an age of 25 to 30 years (Table 21.1). Cautiously estimated, in Germany osteoporosis occurs in about 6–8 million women and men, resulting in at least 0.4 million fragility fractures per year. The German “Guidelines for Prophylaxis, Diagnosis and Therapy of Osteoporosis” have contributed much to our understanding of primary osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and older men (DVO-Guidelines 2006). Low mineral density predicts fractures in all races, but fracture risks are different between
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Table 21.2. Association of osteoporosis with other diseases and disorders (according to Lindsay et al. 1996) ] Diseases Anorexia nervosa, cystic fibrosis, hepatic insufficiency, homocystinuria, inflammatory bowel disease, mastocytosis, celiac disease, multiple myeloma, osteogenesis imperfecta, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia ] Endocrine disorders Cushing’s syndrome, diabetes mellitus type I and II, hypogonadism, hyperparathyroidism, hyperthyroidism ] Immobilization Extended bed rest, lengthy casting or splinting, paralysis, routine inactivity, sedentary life style ] Chronic drug therapy Heparin, warfarin, anticonvulsants, corticosteroids, cyclosporine, methotrexate, vitamin A and certain synthetic retinoids, anxiolytics, neuroleptic drugs
Fig. 21.2. Multiple fish vertebrae in osteoporosis. Table 21.1. Diagnostic criteria for osteopenia and osteoporosis based on bone mass measurements Bone mass ] Normal
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ethnic groups. White postmenopausal women are at highest risk for osteoporosis and related fractures. Three-fourths of hip fractures are found in this group, especially at an age of 70 years or higher. Hip fracture rates are lower in men and Afro-American women, Hispanic women, Asians and Native Americans. Osteoporosis is a complex disorder with various subtypes of different etiopathogenetic causes (Keck and Kruse 1994). There is a common association with other diseases (Table 21.2) and a large array of risk factors which may overlap (Table 21.3).
Table 21.3. Risk factors for osteoporosis (according to Sambrook et al. 1994, Lane and Leboff 2005, Fulton 1999, Natl. Osteoporosis Foundation 2003) Primary risk factors ] Female sex, previous fracture at < 50 years, parent or sibling with previous fractures ] Low body weight < 58 kg or height > 1.70 m ] Female sex. Estrogen deficiency. Menopause before age 45 years or bilateral ovariectomy ] Prolonged premenopausal amenorrhea > 1 year Secondary risk factors ] Nonmodifiable white race, advanced age, frailty or poor health, dementia ] Modifiable lifestyle factors, low calcium intake, eating disorder, low testosterone levels in men, premenopausal estrogen deficiency, excessive alcohol intake, physical inactivity, impaired vision, neurologic disorders, lack of sunlight exposure, recurrent falls
Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis Reductions in bone mass are more easily prevented than treated. The older the patient, the less is the individual bone mineral content. The same holds true for the earlier menopause. The majority of female patients are candidates for
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some measures of prophylaxis. The earlier we intervene with bone-conserving tactics, the better the outcome is likely to be. As it is well-known, malnutrition is detrimental to skeletal health, it should be corrected whenever possible. Therefore, the first step in the prevention of osteoporosis involves adequate nutrition, particularly maintaining adequate calcium and vitamin D intake. This is important for individuals of all ages. Physical activity also has a beneficial effect on bone integrity thus increasing the peak bone mass in the young individual. Specific bone stimulating exercise regimens have not yet been clearly identified, but a reasonable approach is to encourage daily weight-bearing and gravity influenced aerobic exercise. Immobility presents a major risk for fractures of the proximal femur and vertebral bones. Another risk factor in men and in women is a low body mass. The prevention of calcium depletion is being stressed. A simple approach, consisting in supplementation of calcium and vitamin D, has been shown to reduce the risk of fracture in an earlier study of women with an average age of 84 years (Chapuy et al. 1992). Estrogen replacement therapy at menopause is suggested, particularly for women with decreased bone mass and hormone imbalance. This measure in women has been clearly demonstrated to be associated with fewer extravertebral fractures and greater bone density.
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Screening for osteoporosis is justified for the following reasons: The disease is common and associated with a high morbidity and mortality. Based on accurate and safe diagnostic tests the diagnosis and, moreover, an intervention threshold is readily made. An effective and rather safe treatment is available. In addition, screening tests to measure bone density are necessarily needed to predict the outcome of treatment and control patient compliance. Dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the most popular method for measuring bone density because it gives relatively precise and quick measurements at clinically important sites with low costs. It addresses, however, not all bone impacts (i.e., microarchitecture, matrix factor, ge-
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ometry). Table 21.4 shows the present techniques available to measure bone density. Measurement of markers for bone turnover may potentially be useful in predicting rates of bone loss (Eastell et al. 2001). The mean values for biochemical markers of bone turnover seem higher in patients with osteoporosis than in normal persons. Urinary deoxypyridinoline and N-telopeptides of collagen are sensitive in detecting moderate and substantial increases in bone resorption associated with postmenopausal osteoporosis. Serum osteocalcin concentrations are sensitive markers of decreased bone formation in patients with primary postmenopausal disease or secondary osteoporosis.
Calcium is an essential nutrient that is involved in most metabolic processes together with the phosphate salts which in proper correlation provide mechanical rigidity to the bone (Nordin 1997). Multiple therapeutic regimens have been designed to prevent bone loss in postmenopausal women and the elderly. Studies showed that the calcium balance is related to calcium intake and an adequate calcium intake reduces bone loss in adults. In the elderly calcium and vitamin D reduce the rate of bone loss and decrease fracture risk (Chapuy et al. 1992). In postmenopausal women with a low calcium intake less bone was lost when calcium was supplemented. 1000 mg/day calcium supplementation prevented the decrease in hip bone density that occurs in the winter in elderly New
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York and England women. Calcium supplementation in individuals over the age of 65 years demonstrated similar benefits. Most studies have been performed in postmenopausal women, but older men also seem to benefit from calcium supplementation. The recommended daily calcium intake in premenopausal women and in men is 1000 mg/ day. In postmenopausal women who do not take estrogen, the intake of calcium should be 1500 mg/day (NIH 1994). Calcium supplementations (mostly recommended as calcium citrate which is better absorbed than calcium carbonate even when taken with meals) are not less effective than calcium from natural dairy products. If the total calcium intake routinely exceeds 2000 mg/day there may occur possible adverse effects like dyspepsia and constipation. Calcium supplementation taken with meals reduces iron absorption from food leading to possible iron deficiency anemia. There is a small risk for renal stones in women with a history of nephrolithiasis. These women should take calcium supplementation with meals. Calcium supplementation is not enough to replace postmenopausal bone loss as effectively as a hormone substitution with estrogen-gestagen (Wüster 1995).
] Vitamin D Overt symptoms of vitamin D deficiency, characterized biochemically by hypocalcemia or hypophosphatemia, and clinically by rickets or osteomalacia, are uncommon in most developing countries. Subclinical vitamin D deficiency (serum level below 30–50 ng/ml), however, is common and may contribute to the development of osteoporosis in older people. Approximately one-half of elderly women consume less than 137 IU/day vitamin D. In addition, intestinal resistance to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D and limited renal activation may contribute to the negative calcium balance in the elderly. Since calcium absorption is normally stimulated by vitamin D, the defect in osteoporosis could reflect vitamin D deficiency or resistance. Postmenopausal women with low serum concentrations of vitamin D have lower bone mineral density than those with normal or high concentrations. A positive association between serum vitamin D levels and bone mineral den-
sity has been reported (Bischoff-Ferrari et al. 2004). A third of patients with hip fractures have histological evidence of osteomalacia, the classic manifestation of vitamin D deficiency. These observations and the majority of clinical trials suggest that physiologic doses of vitamin D may protect bone by preventing bone loss and healing subclinical osteomalacia. Consequently, in elderly women assigned to treatment with 800 IU vitamin D and 1200 mg calcium a day versus placebo, hip bone density increased in the treated women with a significant lower fracture rate (Chapuy et al. 1992). In men and women over the age of 65 years the combination of 500 mg calcium and 700 IU vitamin D/ day improved bone mineral density and decreased the risk of nonvertebral fractures. A meta-analysis of several randomized, controlled studies of elderly persons (mean age 79 years) treated with 400 IU/day low-dose vitamin D versus 700–800 IU/day higher-dose vitamin D showed that the higher dosis vitamin D reduced the relative risk of hip and nonvertebral fractures. No significant fracture benefit was seen with the low-dose vitamin D treatment (Bischoff-Ferrari 2005). In addition to its effect on bone mineral density, vitamin D supplementation is also proven to reduce fracture risk by improving muscle function and decrease the risk of falls. An even greater improvement in muscle strength, stability of gait, and fewer falls was found in elderly women under calcium and vitamin D supplementation/day (Bischoff-Ferrari et al. 2004). The most active metabolite of vitamin D, calcitriol, has been used in osteoporosis, because it stimulates bone and may normalize calcium absorption and calcium balance. Clinical trials with calcitriol for the treatment of osteoporosis showed conflicting results, whereby it frequently caused hypercalcemia or hypercalciuria necessitating close monitoring. So, present recommendations for vitamin D supplementation suggest a daily vitamin D intake of at least 700–800 IU plus 1200 mg calcium/day in the diet or as a supplement [NIH].
] Estrogen replacement For a long time estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) was considered to be a primary intervention for the prevention of postmenopausal os-
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teoporosis, but recurrence of menstrual-like bleeding and premenopausal symptoms was not readily accepted by many women. There also seemed a possible connection between estrogen replacement and cancer of the breast and uterus. The threat of endometrial malignancy was reduced by applying combined estrogenprogestin therapy. This combined treatment reduces the risk for vertebral and extravertebral fractures, including hip fractures. Because of possible deleterious effects, however, especially in older drug prescriptions estrogen-progestin treatment is no longer accepted as a first-line approach for the treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. But possible indications include persistent menopausal symptoms with the need for antiresorptive treatment if other drugs cannot be tolerated.
] Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) Tamoxifene, the first available SERM, is an estrogen antagonist that binds to the estrogen receptor. It has a bone sparing effect at the usual dosage of 20 mg/day. It is useful in the treatment of menopausal women who suffer from cancer of the breast. Tamoxifene decreases the risk of fractures of the hip and spine, but not of the distal radius. Therapy should be limited to 5 years, because tamoxifene stimulates endometrial tissue and may increase the incidence of endometrial carcinoma. Raloxifene is a tissue selective estrogen receptor modulator for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis with estrogen agonistic response by TGF-b stimulation only at the site of the bone. It harmonizes bone turnover physiologically by natural pathways thus increasing bone mineral density and decreasing the incidence of vertebral fractures. Adverse effects are the reduction of serum total and LDL cholesterol concentrations, and it does not stimulate endometrial hyperplasia or vaginal bleeding. Therefore, raloxifene is recommended as one of the first line drugs for prevention of osteoporosis, but it seems less effective than estrogen and bisphosphonates, considering that the increase of bone mineral density is a factor which is more and more discussed as a relevant outcome parameter.
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] Calcitonin in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis Calcitonin, a peptide composed of 32 amino acids, binds to osteoclasts and inhibits bone resorption. Calcitonins from many species are effective in humans. Salmon calcitonin is most widely used. It is highly potent in humans and has a high affinity for the human calcitonin receptor with a slow rate of clearance. The only other calcitonin used clinically is the human preparation which is less potent but also less antigenic. The route of application can be subcutaneous, intramuscular, and nasal, whereby the biological effect of 50 IU of intramuscular salmon calcitonin is equal to that of 200 IU of the nasal preparation. Studies of the efficacy of calcitonin together with calcium supplementation over two years to prevent postmenopausal bone loss showed a significant increase of mean spinal bone mineral density. But conflicting data exist – in favour of calcitonin – at sites other than the spine. Calcitonin is less effective than bisphosphonates for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. Combined with estrogen, calcitonin seems to have a synergistic effect, and it is also accepted for the treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (Ringe and Welzel 1987). Calcitonin is not used as a first-line treatment for osteoporosis. Its traded clinical indication is the treatment for prominent pain (especially back pain) and it can decrease the risk for vertebral bone fractures. Its beneficial shortterm effect on pain in patients with fractures is probably due to the rise in endorphin levels. However, its bad adherence when subcutaneously applied, its side effects (i.e., vomiting and flush) and the price level for the nasal application form result in a lower use. The development of antibodies often signals resistance too. The rise of alkaline phosphatase in patients with Paget’s disease signals that the patient becomes resistant to calcitonin. Such a warning system is lacking in osteoporosis, because calcitonin has only a minimal effect on biochemical markers of bone turnover.
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] The use of bisphosphonates in osteoporosis Chemically, bisphosphonates are synthetic analogues of inorganic pyrophosphate, which have a high affinity for calcium. They clear rapidly from the circulation, bind to bone lining surfaces and concentrate selectively in bone. If not incorporated into the bone’s mineral matrix, bisphosphonates underly renal elimination. They have been used in patients with various disorders affecting the skeleton, including individuals with hypercalcemia, Paget’s disease, multiple myeloma, metastases of breast cancer, and osteogenesis imperfecta. These drugs inhibit bone resorption and reduce the incidence of vertebral and nonvertebral fractures even in women who already had fractures. Furthermore, they are beneficial in the treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. The first bisphosphonate used to treat osteoporosis was etidronate (editronate). Because of concern that it may cause osteomalacia, however, it was superseeded by other bisphosphonates. Table 21.5 lists the potency of the various bisphosphonates used in humans, Table 21.6 shows the bisphosphonates registered in Germany. In women with postmenopausal osteoporosis 10 mg alendronate a day for three years showed significant increases in bone mineral density of the spine, hip and total skeleton. A decrease of new vertebral fractures was also noted (Lieberman et al. 1995). Several trials proved the longterm efficiency of alendronate up to 12 years in women with osteoporosis. Table 21.5. Potency of various bisphosphonates used in humans to inhibit bone resorption (Watts 1998) Generation
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Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis were randomly assigned to be treated with placebo or different doses of alendronate. All women also received 500 mg calcium per day (Lieberman et al. 1995). At three years of treatment bone density slightly decreased in the placebo group but increased in the alendronate group at the mid-forearm, femoral neck, and spine. Alendronate was associated with fewer vertebral fractures, less loss of height, and at a dose of 10 mg a day had no increase in side effects as compared to placebo. In another trial over 3 years in postmenopausal women alendronate was associated with a lower incidence of vertebral fractures, and with a lower rate of clinical fractures of hip and wrist. Alendronate (5 mg per day for 2 years followed by 10 mg a day for 2 years) was tested in postmenopausal women with low bone density but no history of osteoporotic fractures. In elderly women alendronate increased bone mineral density at all sites, prevented osteoporosis and reduced the number of clinical fractures (Greenspan et al. 2000).
Table 21.6. Selected bisphosphonates used in Germany for the treatment of osteoporosis Bisphosphonate
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In a study over three years alendronate increased bone mineral density at the lumbar spine, femoral neck, trochanter, and total hip (McClung et al. 1998). The positive effects of alendronate disappeared rapidly after cessation of therapy. Similar results were reported in another study when 5 mg of alendronate a day were given for 2 years to postmenopausal women under the age of sixty. A four and six year follow-up demonstrated that the positive effects of continued therapy on bone density were maintained (McClung et al. 2004). The combination of drugs, bisphosphonates or estrogens, inhibit bone resorption by different mechanisms and also has additive effects on bone mineral density. This was confirmed with etidronate (editronate) and alendronate (Bone et al. 2000). The combination of alendronate and a SERM (raloxifene) also showed additive effects on bone mineral density (Johnell et al. 2002). Application of 70 mg alendronate once a week was found to be similar in efficacy than 10 mg once a day. There were fewer side effects with the once-a-week dosis. A comparison (with fracture end points) between alendronate and the other weekly dosed 35 mg of residronate does not exist. It seems that the suppressive rate of resorption of alendronate is higher but the onset of clinical fracture resorption slightly slower (Rosen et al. 2005). Alendronate has been found to be well tolerated and effective for at least 10 years. In women with postmenopausal osteoporosis it increases bone mineral density over a ten-year period (Bone et al. 2004). The Fracture Intervention Trial showed similar results after 6 to 10 years of follow-up (Ensrud et al. 2004). To minimize the risk of esophageal disease in patients treated with alendronate, the following rules should be applied: The drug should not be given to patients with active upper gastrointestinal disease, it should be discontinued in patients with symptoms of esophagitis, when creatinine clearance is below 35 mg/h and in presence of signs of osteoarthritis of the jaw. Alendronate should be taken on an empty stomach in the morning 1 h before eating with a full glass of plain water while sitting or standing. The patient should remain upright for at least 1/2 h before any food intake. Risedronate (Residronate), another clinically very important bisphosphonate, increased bone density at the lumbar spine, femoral neck, tro-
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chanter, and hip (Sorensen et al. 2003). It was the first published bisphosphonate that specifically decreased the incidence of hip and not only of extravertebral fractures (McClung et al. 2001). Furthermore, in patients treated with glucocorticoids, risedronate could significantly prevent more bone loss (Cohen et al. 1999). The efficacy of risedronate seems to be quite similar to that of alendronate, however, alendronate may have a greater effect on bone mineral density at all sites after 12 months of treatment (Rosen et al. 2005). Greater decreases in biochemical markers of resorption were noted with alendronate by 3 months, a possible effect of its higher bone affinity and fixation. There was a tendency to slightly higher adverse effects in the upper gastrointestinal tract with alendronate treatment in comparison with risedronate. Combination therapy of conjugated estrogens with risedronate showed a greater increase of bone density at the femoral neck and the radial bone as when given alone (Harris et al. 2001). Three risedronate formulations are used: A once a day 30 mg dose for the treatment of Paget’s disease, a 5 mg daily and a 35 mg weekly dosis for the treatment and the prevention of postmenopausal and glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. Ibandronate is a newer bisphosphonate for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. In a 3 year evaluation bone mineral density increased. Both daily and intermittent treatment with ibandronate decreased the risk of only vertebral but not of hip fractures. A decrease in nonvertebral fractures was seen only with daily ibandronate treatment in patients with a BMD T-score less than –3.0 (Chesnut et al. 2004). The dosage regimens contain especially a once-amonth tablet with 150 mg and an injectable formulation with 3 mg/3 ml. Zoledronic acid, the latest potent drug of the bisphosphonate family, is the only bisphosphonate that is administered once a year. The drug is given as an intravenous infusion of 5 mg zoledronic acid in a 100 ml solution. The onceyearly administration is made possible by 100% bioavailability, a high affinity to bone and a strong inhibition of osteoclasts. Zoledronic acid is available in many countries for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis, including the approval in 2007 in the US, Canada and the EU. In the HORIZON Pivotal Fracture Trial (PFT) zoledronic acid reduced the risk for new verte-
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bral fractures by 70% compared with placebo over three years (Black et al. 2007). In addition the risk for hip fractures and non-vertebral fractures was reduced significantly by 41% and 25%, respectively. Thus, zoledronic acid is the only osteoporosis treatment that has been shown to reduce the risk for fractures at all relevant osteoporotic sites. It should be recognized that the HORIZON PFT is the first study that allowed the patients the use of concomitant osteoporosis medication. Zoledronic acid increased bone mineral density at the lumbar spine, total hip and femoral neck. Bone markers were reduced and maintained in the premenopausal reference range. In addition, the drug was shown to reduce the number of days with disability and bed rest caused by back pain or fractures. The use of zoledronic acid was associated with a higher incidence of flu-like symptoms that occurred within three days after infusion and resolved quickly. In a recent study (HORIZON Recurrent Fracture Trial) the efficacy of zoledronic acid in the prevention of clinical fractures and the reduction of mortality in men and women with hip fracture was investigated (Lyles et al. 2007). Patients were randomized within 90 days after surgical repair of a hip fracture and received an annual infusion of zoledronic acid or placebo. The mean follow-up time was 1.9 years. Zoledronic acid was shown to reduce clinical fractures after hip fracture by 35%. In addition, allcause mortality was reduced by 28% in the zoledronic acid treated patients. This is the first time that an osteoporosis medication was shown to reduce clinical fractures and mortality in patients after hip fracture. In summary, the once yearly infusion of zoledronic acid is a highly effective and safe treatment for postmenopausal osteoporosis that offers additional advantages concerning the compliance of the patients. Further specific bisphosphonate formulations and drugs for the treatment of Paget’s disease are tiludronate, risedronate, and zoledronate.
] Adverse effects of bisphosphonates Alendronate may induce esophagitis and esophageal ulcers. Esophageal strictures and gastric ulcers can occur (Graham and Malaty 1997). Concomitant use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may increase the occurrence of gastric ulcers (Graham and Malaty 2001). The risk
of esophageal side effects seems lower with risedronate, even in patients with a history of esophageal disease. Treatment with an oral bisphosphonate lowers serum calcium, but clinically significant hypocalcemia has been reported only in hyperparathyroidism (Schussheim et al. 1999). Ocular side effects (including pain, blurred vision, conjunctivitis, uveitis, scleritis) have rarely been seen (Frauenfelder and Frauenfelder 2000). Occasionally patients have experienced musculoskeletal pain while taking bisphosphonates.
] Parathyroid hormone and teriparatide Teriparatide is the recombinant 1–34 truncated human parathyroid hormone (PTH). Its anabolic effects on bone formation have been originally studied in postmenopausal women and in men with advanced osteoporosis, which was the indication and formulation for approval in the United States. Teriparatide is available throughout most of the world, but recombinant fulllength PTH (1–84) is the second now available rh-PTH in Europe. In many countries in Europe, teriparatide or PTH (1–84) cannot be administered unless a patient has received a previous, unsuccessful course of bisphosphonate therapy for at least 1 year and has had further osteoporotic fracture or a severe course of osteoporosis with at least two or more vertebral fractures. These restrictive indications are due, in part, to the fact that teriparatide is expensive and is administered by daily subcutaneous injection. Adverse events with teriparatide include mild hypercalcemia, other side effects are rise in serum uric acid, dizziness, headache, nausea, and leg cramps (Canalis et al. 2007).
] Strontium ranelate Strontium ranelate, like calcium, becomes incorporated around the crystal structure of bone. Both, its anabolic and antiresorptive actions have been reported, particularly in in vivo models. Bone biopsy specimens from patients treated with strontium ranelate show a reduction in bone resorption but possibly no evidence of increased bone formation (Canalis et al. 2007). The rationale of its use is its agonism on the CaSR (calcium sensing receptor) and its
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anabolic effect on osteoblasts via osteoprotegerin, as well as its effect on the osteoclasts by reduced metabolism and replication rate without apoptosis. Strontium ranelate is approved in Europe, but is not approved in the United States for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. It is administered orally (powder solution, 2 mg/day) and has only few side effects.
Other treatments for osteoporosis ] Fluoride therapy in osteoporosis From animal studies it is known that fluoride stimulates bone formation by osteoblasts. Based on the early observation of one of the adverse effects of fluoride intoxication (“fluorosis”), the first clinical studies found that the administration of fluoride greatly increased bone density of the spine. The subsequent use of fluoride was limited, however, for its side effects (gastrointestinal symptoms, lower extremity pain). In addition, fluoride treatment may cause an osteomalacia-like bone effect and loss of cortical bone as it increases trabecular bone. Another disadvantage is that fluoride-containing bone is structurally weaker than normal bone. Mainly during the last decade of the last century research led to more safe fluoride formulations (slow-release sodium fluoride; monosodiumfluorophosphate) and to more clinical research. Women with moderate osteoporosis, for instance, were treated with low doses of sodium monofluorophosphate (20 mg/day fluoride) plus 1000 mg calcium carbonate/day for 4 years. In this trial, evaluated by the pharmaceutical sponsor itself, the fluoride preparation – compared to only calcium carbonate treatment – did not influence the occurrence of nonvertebral fractures. Concerning vertebral fractures, however, the fluoride group was said to show a lower incidence of new fractures compared to the group receiving calcium alone (Reginster et al. 1998). In contrast, another trial of higher doses of monosodium fluoride and enteric-coated sodium fluoride found no decrease in the incidence of vertebral fractures (Meunier et al. 1998). Because of conflicting data, after 40 years research on the treatment of osteoporosis with
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fluoride, the NIH “Consensus Development Panel on Osteoporosis Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapy“ (2001) did not come to a clear conclusion that fluoride is effective in osteoporosis. Today, this is reflected more and more by national (e.g. O’Neill et al. 2004) and especially international scientific societies (e.g. Kanis et al. 2008) which have eliminated fluoride from their recommendations of treatments for the prevention of fractures. Fluoride should generally be reserved only for patients with vertebral fractures who definitively are unable to tolerate any other approved drug for the treatment of osteoporosis.
] Thiazide and loop diuretics Concomitant administration of diuretics can influence calcium balance. Loop diuretics increase calcium excretion by impairing reabsorption in the loop of Henle. The ensuing negative calcium balance, therefore, can enhance the risk for hip fractures. Thiazides stimulate distal tubular reabsorption of calcium. They decrease the urinary calcium excretion. This effect leads to a reduced frequency of stone formation in patients with nephrolithiasis and hypercalciuria. Most studies have demonstrated a beneficial effect on fracture risk. In a meta-analysis of 13 trials the hip fracture risk was significantly reduced by 18% with long-term thiazide therapy (Jones et al. 1995). From the data published it can be concluded that thiazides attenuate bone loss and may reduce fracture risk, but the effect is moderate. Therefore, thiazides are not routinely recommended for the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis, but they may have a place in the treatment of patients with osteoporosis who have hypertension or nephrolithiasis. The effects of diuretics on optimal dietary calcium intake is not known.
] Alternative medicine/phytoestrogens Data from animal studies suggests a positive effect of phytoestrogens on bone, but valid clinical studies – especially long-term trials – are lacking.
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] New treatments on the horizon Besides the variety of the therapeutic options of today, new forms of treatment are appearing like cathepsin K inhibitors or RANK/RANK-ligand inhibitors. Potent and selective inhibitors have been designed for cathepsin K, a cysteine protease unique to osteoclasts. They have demonstrated antiresorptive activity both in vitro and in vivo and therefore they are promising new agents for the treatment of osteoporosis. Research concerning interactions of osteoclastogenesis, bone resorption and remodeling may offer new therapeutic potential. RANK(receptor activator of nuclear factor NF-jB-) ligand is the key activator for bone resorption. Osteoprotegerin (OPG) and also the human monoclonal antibody denosumab both inhibit the binding of RANK-ligand to RANK and thus prevent bone resorption.
Evidence-based conclusion Osteoporosis affects millions of mainly postmenopausal women all over the world, especially in developed countries. In Germany, half of all women at the age of 50 years or more have suffered from at least one osteoporotic fracture. These are the patients who bear the five-fold risk to develop a new fracture within the following year. This means a new responsibility for the (hip) surgeon: the management of established osteoporosis (Bartl 2003). The basis of this (acute) management is a careful case history and diagnosis of the (osteoporotic) fracture, particularly with help of dualenergy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), the immediate start of an anti-osteoporosis (drug) therapy and thus the effective reduction of the risk of further fractures (Bartl 2003) Although potentially devastating, in general, osteoporotic fractures can be prevented, their incidence at least reduced. Change of life-style in the sense of regular weight-bearing exercise, avoidance of smoking and excessive alcohol and caffeine consumption, diet with adequate calcium and vitamin D intake are able to protect against mineralization loss and deterioration of bone quality.
Pharmacological intervention is also able to increase bone density and thus reduces the fracture risk in women (and men) with established osteoporosis. Today, besides calcium and vitamin D, ERT starting within 5 years of menopause, raloxifene, bisphosphonates (alendronate, risedronate, ibandronate, zoledronate), strontium ranelate, PTH, and partly calcitonin (nasal application) are good general pharmacological strategies to avoid – or at least reduce – the loss of bone mineralization density and thus vertebral and extravertebral fractures in osteoporotic patients. Concerning especially the reduction of hip fractures, alendronate, risedronate, zoledronate, and strontium ranelate show the best evidence, based on extensive clinical experience. Summarizing, good evidence suggests that many agents are effective in preventing osteoporotic fractures, but up to now, only few studies have directly compared different agents or classes of agents used to treat osteoporosis (MacLean et al. 2008). Research of the near future has to determine their relative efficacy and safety. ] Acknowledgements. This contribution is warmly dedicated to Prof. Dr. med. Gerhard L. Bach (MD, former Professor and Chairman, University of Illinois, Cook County Postgraduate School of Medicine, Chicago, USA), D-67269 Grünstadt, at the occasion of his 74th birthday. The authors are much obliged to Dr. med. Thomas Drabiniok (Fachkliniken Hohenurach), D-72574 Bad Urach, for constructive discussions as well as to Andrea Förster, D-12047 Berlin, for the careful review of the manuscript.
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Closing remarks K.-K. Dittel
plant with exact adaption to any individual anatomical situation of the patient can be described as the – “gold nugget” – under the implants in the group of extramedullary orientated devices. The universality of the DMS is based on the double dynamic kind of stabilization using the sliding link principle and the angle stable adaptability simultaneously. There will be absolutely no doubt that the implant whose operative indications have been reported in this book will also succeed in the future for the benefit of a great number of our patients which have to be treated because of fractures at the proximal and distal end of the femur.
Fig. 22.1
Since the first implantation of a Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) on the 15th of November 1992 (70 years old female with a combined inter- and subtrochanteric femur fracture) the implant has started its worldwide success. Meanwhile more than 50 000 patients have been treated with the adjustable femur plate because of operative fracture indications. The increasing spreading was accompanied by antipathy and envy, but these collateral side effects could not disturb the spreading of an idea which had been realised at the right time. The technical optimised implant is unique in its use especially when a severe osteoporosis is combined with an acute fracture situation. The implant guarantees a perfect congruence between the plate and the lateral cortical surface by its anatomical adjustment. The universal applicability of the extramedullary orientated im-
Fig. 22.2
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A abnormal radiographic anatomy 29 access – dorsal mailbox 52 – lateral, Bauer 52 additional valgus osteotomy 96 adduction fractures 32 adjustable hip compression screw 17, 18, 19 adjustable worm gear 51 alendronate 166 anatomic reconstruction 101 angle adapted – contoured fit 3 – plate 10 – precision fit 75 – stable 173 – stepless 95 angle adjustment 21 – – individual 75 angle blade plate 9, 95 – 958 85 antibiotic – pharmacokinetics 133 – prophylaxis 130, 131 – selection 132 antiphospholipid syndrom 138 AO-classification – femur neck fractures 48 – femur fractures, intertrochanteric 77 – fracture 62 – – trochanteric 48 AO-nail 9 APC resistance 138 arthritis – degenerative 42 – – destructive 43 – posttraumatic 111 articular cartilage, thinning 41 aseptic femur head necrosis 73 – of the adolescent 95 avascular necrosis 64 – of femur head 61, 111
B bicondylar knee prosthesis 119 bilateral intertrochanteric femur fraction 120, 123 biochemical markers of bone turnover 165 bisphosphonate 166 – adverse effects 168 bleeding complications 140 bleeding risk 140 blood flow velocity 137 Boehler 8 bonding osteosynthesis 108, 109, 110 bone lesions, osteolytic 109, 110 bone tumors, primary 107 bone turnover – markers 163 – – biochemical 165 bones osteoporotic 85 bony consolidation 80 bridging of fragments 80
C calcar femoral 29, 39 calcitonin 165 calcitriol 164 calcium 163 calcium intake, daily 164 capacity, full weight bearing 71 causative pathogens 130 choice of device 101 classification – AO – – femur neck fractures 48 – – femur fractures, intertrochanteric – – fracture 62 – – – trochanteric 48 – by Garden 29 – by Haeuser 30 – by Pauwels 29, 30 – by Sennheiser 85 – fractures 45 – – subcapital 29 comminuted fracture zones 85 complications 74
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compound osteosynthesis 107 compression osteosynthesis 51 compression plates, dynamic 10 compression principle, dynamic 75 958 condylar angle plate 74 congenital coxa valga 95 congenital femur neck pseudarthrosis 95 congenital hip roof dysplasy 95 congruent adjustability 22 connection, rigid 8 constant stress 15 contamination, microbial 130 contamination, perioperative bacterial 130 Cooper 61 correction, valgus or varus 75 cortical bone 161 cortical rim 31 coxa valga, congenital 95 cutting off 155 cutting out 71, 73, 79, 88 – secondary 159 cyclic threshold bending 15 cysts, subchondral 41
D decubitus, precaution against 145 deep venous thrombosis 80, 143 defect over bridging 108 deficiency – of antithrombin 138 – of protein C 138 – of protein S 138 deformities of the femoral head 43 degenerative arthritis 42 Denosumab 169 deperiostation 86 destructive degenerative arthritis 43 deterioration of bone, microarchitectural 161 distal femur fractures 101, 119 distal femur spiral shaft fractures 105 diuretics 169 – loop 169 double dynamic stabilization 3, 10, 75, 81 – angle-adapted contoured 24 – sliding link principle 24 dynamic compression plates 10 dynamic compression principle 75, 81 Dynamic Condylar Plate (DCS) 85 Dynamic Hip Screw (DHS) 10, 16, 18, 19, 61, 85 Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) 2, 10, 21, 22, 47, 71, 72, 73, 81, 86, 87, 88, 95, 107 – double dynamic stabilization 24 – – angle-adapted contoured 24 – – sliding link principle 24 – individual patient specific shaft congruence 24 – infinitely variable neck/shaft angle 24 – intermediate 69
– intraoperative axis connection 24 – lag screw 22 – plates 21 dynamic self compression 9 dynamic sliding device 51 dynamic sliding tongue principle 80
E early functional therapy 11 Ender 8 endoprosthetic replacements 108 epiphysiolysis of the hip head 95 estrogen receptor modulators, selective (SERMs) 165 estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) 163, 164 etidronate (editronate) 166 Evans 77 exceptional indications 117 extension table 52 extraarticular metaphyseal wedge fracture 117, 119 extramedullary Femur Neck-Prosthesis 72 extramedullary implants – congruent adjustability 22 – rotary stability 22 – sliding functionality 22 extramedullary osteosynthesis 85
F factor V Leiden mutation 138 Feltenkrais 148 femur fraction – bilateral intertrochanteric 120 – distal 119 – pathological trochanteric 110 – subtrochanteric 51 femur fracture – 31 A-3 femur fractures, unstable 71 – bilateral intertrochanteric 123 – distal 3, 101 – imminent pathological subtrochanteric – intertrochanteric 51 – intertrochanteric 76, 82 – – AO-classification 77 – – instable reversed 79 – – reversed 78, 83 – – unstable 77 – pathologic 108 – pertrochanteric 71 – – reversed 37, 38 – proximal 3, 7, 77, 80 – subtrochanteric 39, 87, 89, 90 – – spiral 92 – – unstable 77 – supracondylar 51, 104
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Subject Index femur head – deformities 43 – necrosis 31, 39, 63, 64, 113, 157 – – aseptic 73 – – – adolescent 95 – – avascular 61, 111 – metastases 39 – perforation 156 – prosthesis, metaphyseal (DMP) 73 – pseudarthrosis 39 femur nail, proximal (PFT) 74 – system 10 femur neck fracture 61, 67, 69 – AO-classification 48 – medial 51, 65 – metastases 39 – pathological 70 femur neck fragment, valgus reduction 75 femur neck prosthesis 111, 113 – extramedullary 72 femur neck pseudarthrosis, congenital 95 femur plate, adjustable 173 femur replacement, proximal 79 femur shaft fracture – proximal 85, 91 – spiral, distal 105 femur, subtrochanteric 85 fluoride 168 fondaparinux 138, 139 forensic aspects of thromboprophylaxis 141 fork-bolt connection 17 formation, metastatic 107 fracture classification 45 – Garden 62 – Pauwels 62 fracture 29 – 31 A 3-3 fracture 77 – – unstable 71 – compression 57 – extravertebral 167 – fixation, intraoperative 51 – hip 167 – in the hip joint area 2 – intertrochanteric 71 – of the proximal femur 29 – pathologic 101, 107 – – imminent 108 – – in the part of femur 107 – Pauwels III 50 – pertrochanteric, reversed 32 – sintering 80 – supracondylar 101 – trochanteric, AO-classification 48 – unstable 85 – vertebral 167 – zones, comminuted 85 full load capacity 80 full weight bearing capacity 71
G gamma nail 85, 123 Garden 29 Garden, fracture classification 62 Goetze 8
H Haeuser 29 Haeuser classification 30 head-neck fragment, valgisation 51, 80 headpreserving osteosynthesis 61 hematoma, precaution against 145 heparin-induced osteoporosis 141 heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) – non immunological 140 – type II (HIT II) 140 high energy trauma 85 hip compression screw (HCS) 15 – adjustable 17, 18, 19 hip – compression screw (HCS), rigid 17 – fractures 167 – head, epiphysiolysis 95 – post-traumatic osteoarthritis 61 – prosthesis 117 – roof dysplasy, congenital 95 – screw system, dynamic 10 – screw, dynamic (DHS) 61 hypercoagulability 139
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I ibandronate 167 ideal shaft congruence 75 imminent pathological subtrochanteric femur fraction 109 implant dislocation 158 implant failure 71, 73 implantation, metaphyseal 111 indications, exceptional 117 indirect reposition techniques 86 individual angle adjustment 75 individual patient specific shaft congruence 24 infection 129 – postoperative 129, 130 infinitely variable neck/shaft angle 24 inflammatory complications, post-operative 39 instable reversed intertrochanteric femur fractures 79 intermediate DMS 69 intertrochanteric femur fracture 51, 76, 82 intertrochanteric osteotomy 95, 96 intertrochanteric proximal femur fracture 123 intertrochanteric reversed femur fracture 78, 83
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intertrochanteric valgisation osteotomy 97, 99 intertrochanteric varisation osteotomy 98 intramedullary elastic round nails 8 intramedullary osteosynthesis 85 intraoperative axis connection 24 intraoperative fracture fixation 51 intraoperative valgus correction 3, 75
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methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRSA) 132 methylmethacrylate (PMMA) 107 microbial contamination 130 microfracture 41, 44 microarchitectural deterioration of bone 161 monosodiumfluorophosphate 168 Morbus Perthes 95 mortality, perioperative 75, 80 Müller 9 multidose vials 139
Jewett 8 N K
nail – AO-nail 9 – femur nail, proximal (PFT) 74 – – system 10 – gamma 85, 123 – intramedullary elastic round 8 – proximal femur nail (PFN) 74, 85 – – long 123 – tri-flanged-nail 8 neck fracture, pseudarthrosis 61 necrosis 44 – avascular 64 – femur head 31, 63, 64, 113, 157 – – aseptic 73 – post-traumatic 31 non union case 111 non-locking connection 1 nutrition 163
Kaplan-Maier-Survival-Graph 62, 63 Kathepsin-K-inhibitors 169 knee motion 102 knee prosthesis bicondylar 119 Kuentscher 64
L lag screw, positioning 66 lamellar pin, triple 8 late loosening 73 lesions, osteolytic 107 load bearing process 10 load bearing stability 87 load capacity 15 load stability 75 loop diuretics 169 low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWH) lung embolism 143
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M malpositioned supporting screw management, postoperative 102 markers for bone turnover 163 Martin Screw, dynamic 2 McLaughlin 8 measures – pharmacological 138 – thromboprophylactic 137 medial femoral neck fractures 51, 65 metal-cement-complex osteosynthesis 102, 107 metaphyseal femur head prosthesis (DMP) 73 metaphyseal implantation 111 metastases – of non-osseous tumors 107 – osteolytic 39 metastatic formation 107 methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci 132
O operative procedure 50 oscillation test 15, 18 osteochondrosis 95 osteolysis 107 osteolytic bone lesions 109, 110 osteolytic lesions 107 osteolytic metastases 39 osteomalacia 164 osteoporosis 107, 161 – heparin-induced 141 – loss of cortical bone 161 – loss of trabecular bone 161 – prevention 162, 163 osteoporotic bones 85 osteosynthesis – bonding 108, 109, 110 – compound 107 – extramedullary 85 – headpreserving 61 – intramedullary 85 – metal-cement-complex 102, 107 – sequential 121
Subject Index osteotomy – intertrochanteric 95, 96 – supracondylar 101
P Paget’s disease 165 – treatment 168 parathyroid hormone (PTH) 168 pathogens, causative 130 pathologic femur fractures 108 – trochanteric 110 pathologic fracture 101, 107 – imminent 108 – in the part of femur 107 Pauwels 29, 51 Pauwels III fracture 95 Pauwels, fracture classification 30, 62 Penicillin 132 perioperative bacterial contamination 130 perioperative mortality 75, 80 periosteal stripping 102 pertrochanteric femoral fracture 71 – reversed 32, 37, 38 pharmacokinetics of antibiotics 133 pharmacological measures 138 phlebographic screening 137 physical activity 163 physical methods of prophylaxis 138 physiotherapy 143 – early 144 – postoperative 103 phytoestrogen 169 pinion tongue mechanism 22, 23 Pipkin 29 plate loosening 71 plate system 1 Pohl 1, 8 Pohl’s concept 9 Pohl’s implant 123 Pohl’s sliding barrel plate 9 Pohl’s sliding cylinder 1 Pohl’s system 2, 10 postoperative infection 129, 130 postoperative management 102 postoperative physiotherapy 103 posttraumatic arthritis 111 post-traumatic necrosis 31 post-traumatic osteoarthritis of the hip 61 precaution against – decubitus 145 – hematoma 145 – thrombosis 145 precision fit, angle-adaptable 75 prevention, osteoporosis 162, 163 primary bone tumors 107 procedure, technique 50
prophylaxis 129 – antibiotic 130, 131 – physical methods 138 – surgical antimicrobial 132 – femur neck 111, 113 prosthesis – hip 117 – knee bicondylar 119 prothrombin G2010A mutation 138 proximal and distal femur fractures 3 proximal femur fracture 7, 77, 80 – intertrochanteric 123 proximal femur nail (PFN) 74, 85 – long 123 proximal femur nail systems 10 proximal femur replacement 79 proximal femur shaft fracture 85, 91 pseudarthrosis 73, 79, 98 – of the neck fracture 61 – subtrochanteric 153 pseudocyst, subchondral 41 Pseudomonas aeruginosa 130
R radioanatomy 27 radiographic anatomy, abnormal 29 raloxifene 165 RANK/RANKL system, inhibitors 169 reactive sclerosis 43 reconstruction, anatomic 101 reosteosynthesis 74 replacement therapy, estrogen (ERT) 163, 164 replacements, endoprosthetic 108 reposition techniques, indirect 86 reversed pertrochanteric femoral fracture 37, 38 reversed pertrochanteric fractures 32 revisional management 153 rigid connection 8 rigid hip compression screw 17 risedronate 166 risk factor of thrombosis 137 risk of deep vein thromboembolism (VTE) 137 rotation malpositioning 73, 79 rotation stability 22, 85
S S. epidermidis 130 Sauerbruch 8 Schneider 9 sclerosis – reactive 43 – subchondral 41 second bang 123 selection of antibiotics
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selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) 165 self compression 1 – dynamic 9 Sennheiser, classification 85 sequential osteosynthesis 121 shaft congruence, ideal 75 Simon-Weidner 8 sintering of the fractures 80 sintering in the fracture area 88 skeletal study, triple-phase 44 sliding barrel plate 57 sliding barrel principle 2 sliding compression principle 75 sliding device, dynamic 51 sliding functionality 22 sliding link principle 1, 2, 10, 51, 173 sliding tongue principle 3 sliding tongue system 24 Smith Peterson 8 sodium fluoride 168 stabilization, double dynamic 3, 10, 75, 81 stable fracture fixation 1 staphylococci, methicillin-resistant (MRSA) 132 – coagulase-negative 132 Staphylococcus aureus 130 static test 15 – results 16 statistical items 47 stepless angle adaption 95 Stürmer 71 subcapital fractures, classification 29 subchondral cysts 41 subchondral pseudocyst 41 subchondral sclerosis 41 subtrochanteric femoral fracture 39 subtrochanteric femur 85 subtrochanteric femur fraction 51 subtrochanteric femur fractures 87, 89, 90 – spiral 92 subtrochanteric pseudarthrosis 153 supporting screw 51, 56 – malpositioned 159 supracondylar femur fractures 51, 101, 104 supracondylar osteotomy 101 surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis 132 surgical technique 49, 52 surgical wound healing 129 systemic antibiotics 129
T tamoxifene 165 technique, surgical 49, 52 teicoplanin 132 telescoping 58, 71 teriparatide 168 test – oscillation test 15, 18
– static test 15 – – results 16 therapy 129 – early functional 11 thiazides 169 Thornton 8 three-point-gait 144 thrombocytopenia, heparin induced (HIT) 140 – non immunological 140 – type II (HIT II) 140 thromboprophylactic measures 137 thromboprophylaxis 143 – forensic aspects 141 thrombosis – precaution against 145 – risk factor 137 tiludronate 168 trabeculae in the hip joint region 29 trabecular bone 161 trabecular groups 30 – after Greenspan 30 – of the head and neck 29 tri-flanged nail 8 triple lamellar pin 8 triple-phase skeletal study 44 trochanteric fractures, AO-classification 48 tube length 21 tumors, non-osseous, metastases 107
U unstable fractures 85 – 31 A 3-3 femur 71 – intertrochanteric femur 77 – subtrochanteric femur 77
V valgisation angle 51 valgisation of the head-neck fragment valgisation osteotomy, intertrochanteric valgus correction, intraoperative 3, 75 valgus or varus correction 75 valgus osteotomy – additional 96 – intertrochanteric 96, 100 valgus reduction, femur neck fragment vancomycin 132 varisation osteotomy, intertrochanteric varus, intertrochanteric osteotomy 96, venous polling 137 venous thromboembolism (VTE) 137 – deep, risk 137 – prophylaxis 137 venous thrombosis, deep 80
51, 80 97, 99
75 98 100
Subject Index Vitamin D 163 – deficiency 164 Vitamin K antagonist 138, 139
W Ward’s triangle 29 Watson-Jones 8 wedge fracture, extraarticular metaphyseal 117, 119 weight bearing 144 woman, postmenopausal 161 worm gear 17 – adjustable 51
worm gear adjustment 75 worm gear mechanism 3, 22, 23, 24, 66 – pinion tongue 22, 23 worm-wheel 17 wound healing, surgical 129 wound infection 129 – deep 131
Z zolendronate 167
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