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CASE REPORT

Nontraumatic Bilateral Neck of Femur Fracture in Elderly Male Post-seizure Attack

Prasanna Chandralingam, Aniish Selvakumar, Anupam Gupta, Pravin Hariharan

Keywords : Aged, Bilateral, Bipolar hemiarthroplasty, Proximal femoral neck fracture, Osteoporosis

Citation Information : Chandralingam P, Selvakumar A, Gupta A, Hariharan P. Nontraumatic Bilateral Neck of Femur Fracture in Elderly Male Post-seizure Attack. 2023; 5 (1):24-26.

DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-10079-1102

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

Published Online: 03-01-2023

Copyright Statement:  Copyright © 2023; The Author(s).


Abstract

Among the femoral neck fractures, unilateral injury is the most common presenting feature.1 In the younger population, it is a result of high energy trauma from road traffic accidents or falls from height.1,2 In the elderly population, a simple fall results in a fracture of the osteoporotic bone.3 But a patient sustaining a bilateral neck of femur fracture without any trauma is a rare occurrence.4 We recently received a 78-year-old male patient who sustained a nontraumatic bilateral neck of femur fracture following a single episode of a generalized tonic-clonic seizure. He is a known chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patient and recovered from COVID pneumonia 6 months back. The patient underwent modular cemented bipolar hemiarthroplasty for both hips as a staged procedure, and the patient was made for walking full weight-bearing from the second postoperative after the second hip was operated.


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