Importance of osteoporosis-related fractures for patients

BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis is a common disease that affects both women and men. Due to a reduced bone mineral density and increasing age, the risk for atraumatic fractures increases. These fractures cause pain due to the fracture itself and also have far-reaching sequelae in nearly all areas of life of patients.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to summarize the consequences of osteoporotic fractures from the patient's point of view and to highlight the consequences of osteoporosis for the patient. The necessity for timely diagnostics and treatment after a fracture event is explained.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: For each term a literature search was performed using key topic-related terms and the results are presented as a narrative review.

RESULTS: Various areas of importance for patients were identified. A direct assessment of the patient's point of view was not feasible using a literature search; however, studies with surveys of patients could be identified and therefore, the patient's point of view could be integrated. Areas of interest that could be identified in the literature were pain, psychological well-being, cognitive abilities, mortality and long-term need for nursing.

CONCLUSION: The effects of osteoporosis and fractures are multifactorial and often severe for the patient. The measures for prevention of osteoporotic fractures should be consistently implemented in the daily clinical routine and the necessary diagnostics and treatment should be rapidly initiated.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:122

Enthalten in:

Der Unfallchirurg - 122(2019), 10 vom: 04. Okt., Seite 750-754

Sprache:

Deutsch

Weiterer Titel:

Bedeutung osteoporosebedingter Frakturen für den Patienten

Beteiligte Personen:

Maus, Uwe [VerfasserIn]
Böcker, Wolfgang [VerfasserIn]
Schultz, Katharina [VerfasserIn]
Maier, Gerrit Steffen [VerfasserIn]
Weber, Ingrid [VerfasserIn]
Hesse, Eric [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Activities of daily living
Cognition
Journal Article
Mortality
Pain
Psyche
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 08.10.2019

Date Revised 25.02.2020

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00113-019-00708-2

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM300505388