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The influence of operative morbidity on clinical long-term results is evaluated in a prospective study employing a consecutive series of 120 patients (mean age, 82.5 ±4.7 years) with operatively treated fractures of the coxal femur. Perioperative complications which were observed in 37.5%, with a predominance of urinary tract infection (n = 26), bronchopneumonia (n = 16) and cardiac decompensation (p= 4), were significantly associated with a pertrochanteric fracture localization (p< 0.05), prolonged latency from trauma to surgery (p<0.01), and a prevalence of three and more internal diseases (p<0.01). At 1-year follow-up patients with a perioperative complication had a significantly worse performance scoring (p<0.01) than individuals with an unimpaired perioperative course. This leads to the conclusion that perioperative morbidity decisively influences functional outcome in the elderly patient.
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Raunest, J., Engelmann, R., Derra, E. (1996). Prognostische Bedeutung der Operationsmorbidität in der Versorgung der koxalen Femurfraktur des betagten Menschen. In: Hartel, W. (eds) Wahrung des Bestandes, Wandel und Fortschritt der Chirurgie. Langenbecks Archiv für Chirurgie, vol 1996. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80295-9_260
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