Abstract

A classical picture is of an elderly female lying with the injured leg shortened and externally rotated extremely painful on the slightest movement and unable to raise the leg from the bed. The patient complaints of pain in the groin often referred to the inner side of the thigh and knee. Movement of the leg and weight bearing are restricted by pain and muscle spasms or almost impossible. Patients above the age of 60 years who presented with fracture neck of femur and treated using cemented bipolar prosthesis in the Department of Orthopaedics, were included in the study. After obtaining approval from Hospital Ethics Committee and getting written informed consent from patients. Hypertension was the most common comorbidity with 45(44.1%) patients affected by it. This was followed by Diabetes mellitus (30.35%), COPD16 (15.68%), Coronary Artery disease and Cerebro Vascular Accident, 10(9.8%) each, Chronic Kidney Disease 3(2.94%). 39(38.22%) of our patients had more than one comorbidity. 18(17.64%) patients did not have any known medical comorbidities. Only displaced fractures who were treated with cemented bipolar prosthesis were taken up for the study. Majority of the cases were found to be having Garden type IV 53 (54.1%): Rest of them were Garden type III 45 (45.9%).

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