Vol. 5, Issue 4, Part B (2019)

Background: The aim of this study to find out the pattern of fracture in proximal one third of femur in patient admitted in Orthopaedics department of IMS & SUM hospital. Also found the association of different risk factors with the fracture in proximal one third of femur.

Material/Methods: The study was carried out in the Department of Orthopaedics, IMS & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar under Siskha “O” Anusandhan, deemed to be university. The hospital is located in the capital city of Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The hospital is a tertiary care hospital with super speciality facility.

Results: Total 97 patients having fracture of Sub trochanter or intertrochanteric region of femur were included in the study. Out of them 5 participants were lossed during the follow up period of 6 months and 2 of the participants had incomplete data during the data collection process. So these 7 participants were excluded from the final analysis and total of 90 participants were included.

Conclusions: The current study tried to find out the type of fracture of proximal one third of femur and found that majority of fracture was intertrochanteric type followed by sub-trochanteric. Comparison of gender with type of fracture showed sub-trochanteric fracture more common in males while intertrochanteric fracture were more common in females. This difference in proportion was statistically significant.