title: Clinical and surgical approach of severe bone fragility fracture: clinical case of 4 fragility fracture in patient with heavy osteoporosis.
abstract: An accurate diagnosis of osteoporosis and a proper treatment are today recognized to be the most important facts for prevention and for a correct arrangement and treatment of fragility fractures. In the text the Authors describe a case of severe osteoporosis aggravated by 2 femur fractures and 2 periprosthetic fractures occurred in 2 months. In such cases the orthopaedic surgeon needs to formulate first a clinical osteoporotic pattern, than its treatment together with a surgery suitable choice, that has to take into consideration of the bone structural characteristics. In the case described one can note that fractures healing occurred thanks to both an improvement in surgical techniques and antiosteoporotic pharmacological support; in the specific case the Authors used strontium ranelate for its osteoinductive capacity. In our opinion is crucial that the treatment used by orthopaedic surgeons is not related only to the "by-hand" treatment but take into consideration both the underlying disease and the possibility of positively affect bone healing with specific drug therapy.
authors.affiliation: Orthopaedic Clinic University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giannotti
authors.forename: Vanna
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bottai
authors.forename: Erica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pini
authors.forename: Giacomo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dell'osso
authors.forename: Gaia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: De Paola
authors.forename: Giulio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guido
keywords: bone healing; osteoporosis; periprosthetic fractures