title: Characteristics of male hip fracture patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Among men, hip fracture is the most common outcome of osteoporosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics, treatment, complications, short-term outcome and mortality of male hip fracture patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Operation theatre logs of all hip fracture patients operated on (1124 patients) at Kuopio University Hospital in 1989-1993 were reviewed. Medical records of the 276 male patients who underwent surgery (25 % of all patients) were studied.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  233 hip fractures (86 %) in men were due to low energy trauma. Of these cases, 61 % of the fractures occurred at the femoral neck, 31 % were pertrochanteric and 8 % subtrochanteric. The vast majority (90 %) of these patients had some chronic medical condition, and in 66 % the condition influenced motory or sensory functions. Hemiarthroplasty was most often used for femoral neck fractures (64 %). Internal fixation was used for pertrochanteric (97 %) and subtrochanteric (94 %) fractures. 20 % of the men had post-operative complications during the 1.5 year follow-up. During primary hospitalisation mortality was 3 %. Within 1.5 years of the fracture 40 % of the men had died, resulting in a mortality three times higher than age matched Finnish male population.
authors.affiliation: University of Kuopio, Finland. johuusko@hytti.uku.fi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huuskonen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kröger
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Arnala
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Alhava
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005265:Femoral Neck Fractures / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D016896:Treatment Outcome