Acetabular Fractures of Both Columns

Acetabular Fractures Clinical Trial

Official title:

Both Column Acetabular Fractures With Associated Posterior Deformity Patterns: Implications for Surgical Treatment and Prognosis

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00676611
• Other study ID #: DCG001
• Secondary ID: IRB# 27556EP
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 8, 2008
• Last updated: June 16, 2017
• Start date: May 2008
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2014

Study information

• Verified date: June 2017
• Source: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this research is to study a specific acetabular (hip socket) fracture pattern and how its treatment affects the functional, clinical, and x-ray outcomes. There are no experimental procedures involved.

Description:

This study will identify a small subset of patients that fall outside the Letournel classification system of acetabular fractures. The fracture pattern, its influence on the surgical treatment decision making process, and the radiographic and outcomes will be detailed. In particular, both-column acetabular fractures with significant posterior deformity have been correlated with poor functional outcomes, increased arthritis radiographically, and worse prognosis in general. Despite these findings, there has been no specific study evaluating these injury patterns to date. We present ten patients with both column acetabular fractures and an associated posterior column/wall piece and their clinical outcomes in an effort to help guide surgical treatment and offer prognostic guidance.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 52
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2014
• Est. primary completion date: February 28, 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients that underwent surgical fixation of the hip at Hershey Medical Center between June 2006 and May 2007 by Dr's J. Spence Reid and David Goodspeed.

• They will include patients that are admitted directly from the field or are transferred from outside hospitals.

Exclusion Criteria:

• will be those acetabular fractures of non-traumatic etiology (e.g.: secondary to malignancy or fatigue)

• fractures that have not undergone operative fixation

• pediatric populations under the age of 18

• mentally compromised patients

• those that do not give consent for the clinical evaluation.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Acetabular Fractures
• Both Columns
• Fractures, Bone

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center	Hershey	Pennsylvania

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States,