The Influence of Patient Age and Mechanism of Injury on the Type of Pelvic Fracture: Epidemiological Study
Abstract
The patients with pelvic ring injury involve two groups: 1) young and middle-age persons, mostly men, with serious injury to the pelvic ring due to high-energy trauma; and 2) older patients, mostly women, with osteoporotic fractures due to a simple fall. The aim of this study was to show significant differences in the selected epidemiological characteristics between these two groups.
The evaluation of epidemiological data in this study allows us to conclude that younger men are those most frequently sustaining pelvic injuries due to high-energy trauma and that old age (80+) is characteristic for patients of both sexes, with female sex predominance, who have fractures due to simple falls. These findings give support to the concept that, in a group of patients with pelvic injuries, a subgroup with fractures different in terms of epidemiology and aetiology (osteoporotic fracture) can be identified.