Clinical Research on Foot & Ankle
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Case Report

Open Ankle Fracture in Geriatric Patient - A Treatment Strategy

Matthias Bungartz^*, Georg Matziolis, Marcel Schulze and Olaf Brinkmann

Department of Orthopaedic, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Campus Eisenberg, Germany

*Corresponding Author:

Matthias Bungartz
Department of Orthopaedic, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena
Campus Eisenberg, Klosterlausnitzer Street. 81, Eisenberg 07607, Germany
Tel: +4915253638112
E-mail: mat.bungartz@gmail.com

Received date: Aug 23, 2016; Accepted date: Sep 13, 2016; Published date: Sep 22, 2016

Citation: Bungartz M, Matziolis G, Schulze M, Brinkmann O (2016) Open Ankle Fracture in Geriatric Patient - A Treatment Strategy. Clin Res Foot Ankle 4:204. doi:10.4172/2329-910X.1000204

Copyright: © 2016 Bungartz M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The alteration of the age pyramid also leads to changes in the orthopaedic routine. Hence, increasingly more old and very old people (>75.YOA and 91.-100.YOA according to WHO Definition) are being treated with injury patterns that were very rare in this form until now. This could be explained on one hand both by the decreasing osseous stability and the alteration of the soft-tissue condition, and on the other hand by the maintenance of everyday activities even in old age. Thus, low-energy traumas can partly lead to serious injuries. Treatment strategies need to be adapted to the individual cases. The medical care of bones and soft-tissue injuries results to be demanding.

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