A widely used fracture risk calculator may help guide surgical decisions to treat patients with an endocrine disorder called primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) that causes progressive bone loss, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hip fractures include fractures of the head, neck, intertrochanteric, and subtrochanteric regions. Head ...

In the case of a hip fracture, operating on a patient with dementia can be a difficult decision to make. Indeed, surgery exposes patients with dementia to a higher mortality rate, more delirium and ...

Background: A hip fracture causes bleeding, pain and immobility, and initiates inflammatory, hypercoagulable, catabolic and stress states. Accelerated surgery may improve outcomes by reducing the ...

BACKGROUND: Previous studies that quantified the risk of fracture among patients with gout and assessed the potential effect of urate-lowering therapy have provided conflicting results. Our study aims ...

Patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) treated with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors were at significantly lower risk for hip and spine fractures compared with those receiving only ...