Letter to the editor regarding "Epidemiologic analysis of 8000 acute vertebral fractures: evolution of treatment and complications at 10-year follow-up"

Dietrich Doll; Markus M Luedi

doi:10.1186/s13018-022-03279-y

Letter to the editor regarding "Epidemiologic analysis of 8000 acute vertebral fractures: evolution of treatment and complications at 10-year follow-up"

J Orthop Surg Res. 2022 Aug 12;17(1):382. doi: 10.1186/s13018-022-03279-y.

Authors

Dietrich Doll¹, Markus M Luedi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, St. Mareinhospital Vechta, Vechta, Germany.
² Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. markus.luedi2@insel.ch.

Abstract

In this letter to the editor, we discuss the article by Bigdon et al., published recently in the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, about their accurate single-centre cohort study of 8000 vertebral fractures in 4772 patients. As the complication rate of this cohort is low, it seems that severe trauma patients needing damage control resuscitation/procedures may have undergone damage control in the first treating hospital before being transferred to the trauma centre. It will be interesting to see how both activity and health trends within the ageing population will change osteoporotic occurrence of fractures and enable more conservative trends versus operative stabilization to continue an active life even in the seventh or eighth decade.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Cohort Studies
Follow-Up Studies
Fractures, Compression* / etiology
Humans
Osteoporotic Fractures* / etiology
Pain Management
Spinal Fractures* / epidemiology
Spinal Fractures* / etiology
Spinal Fractures* / therapy
Vertebroplasty* / methods