title: [Early complications in elderly patients opereted because of the fracture of the femoral neck].
abstract: Fractures of the femoral neck are the most common with the older population, and in this population are dominantly made by the forces of low strength intensity.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To show early complications ensued during the first 6 weeks after the surgical treatment of the older patients with fractures of the femoral neck.
  
  
  METHODS
  315 hospitalised patients are included within the retrospective analysis who are operated because of the fracture of the femoral neck in KBC Bezanijska Kosa in Belgrade, in the period 2007-2010.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Early complications noted during the first 6 weeks after the surgery were: death of the patient 17 (5.3%), dislocation of the endoprosthesis 12 (3.8%), wound infection 8 (2.5%), pulmonary embolism 1 (0.3%), deep-vein thrombosis 6 (1.9%), lesion n. peroneusa 4 (1.2%), paraplegia 1 (0.3%), decubital wounds of sacral region 15 (4.8%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Aloplastic surgery of dislocated fractures of the femoral neck with the older population enables relatively fast mobilisation of the patients, early rehabilitation of the patients with acceptable number of the early complications.
authors.affiliation: Ortopedsko odeljenje hirurske klinike, KBC "Bezanijska Kosa", Beograd.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Timotijević
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Bascarević
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Vukasinović
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Trajković
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bascarević
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip; D005260:Female; D005265:Femoral Neck Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications