Proximal Femur Locking Compression Plates Versus Trochanteric Nails

Launched by AO CLINICAL INVESTIGATION AND PUBLISHING DOCUMENTATION · May 21, 2010

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Age ≥ 18 years
• • Patients with closed or type 1 open reverse oblique intertrochanteric fractures (AO 31 - A3) or subtrochanteric fractures (transverse fracture line, main fracture line maximum 5 cm distal from the lesser trochanter; proximal extension of fracture allowed)
• • Definitive fracture fixation with either a proximal femur locking plate or an intertrochanteric nail within 4 days after accident
• • Signed written informed consent (by the subject or legal guardian) and agreement to attend the planned FUs
• • Able to understand and read country national language at an elementary level
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Pathologic fracture
• • Polytrauma
• • Any displacement of a femoral neck fracture
• • Additional fracture of one of the lower extremities that significantly affects the functional outcome
• • Additional injury of the lower limb that significantly affects the functional outcome
• • Fractures of the upper extremity if it affects the mobility of the patient
• • Type 2 or 3 open fracture
• • Drug or alcohol abuse
• • Active malignancy
• • ASA class V and VI
• • Inability to walk independently prior to injury
• • Neurological and psychiatric disorders that would preclude reliable assessment
• • Patient is not able to come to the regular FUs
• • Patients who have participated in any other device or drug related clinical trial within the previous month
• • Pregnancy (tested with a urine pregnancy test) or women planning to conceive within the study period

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