Osteoporosis remains underdiagnosed, undertreated after periprosthetic femur fracture

Osteoporosis and osteopenia may be underdiagnosed and undertreated among patients treated for a periprosthetic fracture following total hip arthroplasty, according to published results.
“There remain major gaps in the screening, diagnosis and treatment of systemic osteoporosis and osteopenia after periprosthetic femur fractures,” Michael W. Seward, MD, a PGY-3 orthopedic surgery resident at the Mayo Clinic Rochester, and colleagues wrote in the study. “Like nonarthroplasty fragility fractures, a systematic approach is needed after periprosthetic femur fractures.”
Seward

Osteoporosis and osteopenia may be underdiagnosed and undertreated among patients treated for a periprosthetic fracture following total hip arthroplasty, according to published results.
“There remain major gaps in the screening, diagnosis and treatment of systemic osteoporosis and osteopenia after periprosthetic femur fractures,” Michael W. Seward, MD, a PGY-3 orthopedic surgery resident at the Mayo Clinic Rochester, and colleagues wrote in the study. “Like nonarthroplasty fragility fractures, a systematic approach is needed after periprosthetic femur fractures.”
Seward