Authors : Rabiu O. Jimoh , Onabowale Bo and Omotosho I. Musa
Abstract: This prospective study of 31 adults with femoral neck fracture admitted into the National Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi, Lagos. The study group comprised of 15 (75%) females and 5 males (25.0%) patients. The control group comprised of 10 (90.9%) males and 1 female (9.1%) patients. Femoral neck fracture in the study group was due to trivial domestic fall while in the control group it was due to road traffic accident and sports injury. All the patients in the control group were below 60 years while majority 19 (95.0%) of study group were above 70 years of age. All the 15 (100%) female patients in the study group were post menopausal while the only female in the control group was still in premenopausal stage. Nine (29.0%) of the 31 patients smoked cigarette-4 (12.9%) among the study group and 5 (16.1%) in the control. This is not statistically significant with a p-value of 0.135. Eleven (35.5%) of the 31 patients take alcohol; 6 (19.4%) among the study group and 5 (16.1%) in the control group, also this was not statistically significant (p value-0.390). None of the patients had thyroid dysfunction neoplastic condition or on treatment with steroids. All patients in the study group had cortical indices less than 0.5; while those of the control group were above 0.5. Hemiplegia following hypertension, Parkinsonism and visual impairment affect the outcome of treatment.
Rabiu O. Jimoh , Onabowale Bo and Omotosho I. Musa , 2008. Determinants and Prognostic Factors in Fracture Neck of Femur Sequel to Osteoporosis in a South Western State of Nigeria. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 2: 244-247.