Clinical trial NCT06525883: Analysis of Patients With Post-traumatic Vertebral Fracture and Accompanying Rib Fracture
Official title: Analysis of Patients With Post-traumatic Vertebral Fracture and Accompanying Rib Fracture
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Vertebral Fracture
Rib Fractures
Trauma
Keywords: trauma
rib fracture
vertebral fracture
complication
Lead sponsor: Ege University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-07-29
Enrollment: 151
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: patients who had vertebral and rib fractures due to trauma

Brief summary: The present study investigates the trauma mechanisms, the type and level of vertebral fractures, the number of accompanying rib fractures and thoracic pathologies, the surgical procedures employed and the development of complications in a sample of patients who presented with vertebral fractures and concurrent rib fractures after sustaining trauma.

Detailed description: The study aimed to analyze the mechanisms of trauma, type and level of vertebral fractures, number of accompanying rib fractures and thoracic pathologies, necessity of surgery and development of complications in patients who developed vertebral fractures and rib fractures after trauma. Patients were divided into 3 groups: upper cervical , lower cervical and thoracolumbar. They were compared with each other in terms of trauma mechanisms, rib fracture numbers, accompanying thoracic pathologies, complication developments and need for surgery.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients who had vertebral and rib fractures due to trauma

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients whose electronic patient records and radiological imaging findings cannot be accessed
* Patients whose development of complications could not be evaluated due to not coming to post-discharge check-ups

Primary outcomes:
measure: rib fracture
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: complications
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: surgical intervention
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: İzmir
country: Turkey
facility: Ege University Faculty of Medicine
state: Bornova
Study officials:
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