Abstract
To examine prognostic factors of the femoral neck fracture in the aged, we investigated the relation between pre- and post-traumatic complications and walking ability.
From 1986 to 1990, wa have treated 189 patients (41 males and 148 females) with the femoral neck fracture. The age of the patients ranged from 65 to 97 years, with an average age of 80.9 years. Thirty-eight patients were impossible to walk at the discharge from our hospital, and half of them had senile dementia. Twenty-four patients died during hospitalization, and the cause of death was mainly pneumonia.
It is suggested that the prevention of complications, especially senile dementia and pneumonia, is important for the improvement of prognosis in the elderly patients with femoral neck fracture.
