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ArticleEuropean journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society2024

Safety of urgent surgery for the patients with proximal femur fracture treated with platelet aggregation inhibitors: a propensity-score matching analysis.

Chul-Ho Kim, Jae Suk Chang, Yaeji Lim, Dongkyung Lim, Ji Wan Kim

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Chul-Ho KimDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-Ro 43-Gil, Songpa-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Jae Suk ChangDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, National Police Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Yaeji LimDepartment of Applied Statistics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Dongkyung LimDepartment of Applied Statistics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Ji Wan KimDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-Ro 43-Gil, Songpa-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea. bakpaker@hanmail.net.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3524-8706

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introductionTo compare the various perioperative outcomes in an urgent surgery setting among patients with proximal femur fracture (PFF) who received platelet aggregation inhibitors (PAIs) and those who did not.

methodsWe retrospectively reviewed the data of 1,838 patients who underwent surgery for PFF between January 2011 and January 2021. We conducted 1:1 propensity-score matching and compared the perioperative outcomes, including operation time, postoperative complications, hospital stay, mortality, and variables related to bleeding risk (e.g., number of transfusion profiles, hemoglobin levels, and laboratory data, including coagulation battery).

resultsOf the 492 patients who were treated with PAIs, 484 were 1:1 matched to the untreated control group. The PAI group showed shorter operation time than the matched control group (72.3 min for PAI vs. 77.7 min for control; P = 0.041), and the control group showed more pulmonary thromboembolism (0.2% for PAI vs 1.7% for control; P = 0.046) than the PAI group. The other complications and length of hospital stay, mortality rate, transfusion profile, and the laboratory test (except preoperative international normalized ratio, INR) showed no significant difference between the groups. Subgroup analyses of the patients treated with only aspirin (aspirin: 306, matched control: 306), only clopidogrel (clopidogrel: 100, matched control: 100), and others who were treated with dual anticoagulation (dual anticoagulation: 78, matched control: 78) showed no significant differences in perioperative outcomes among the groups.

conclusionThe patients who were treated with PAI could undergo PFF surgery safely without delay, which led to no significant difference in operation time, postoperative complication risk, perioperative blood transfusion, and variables related to bleeding risk. Therefore, we believe that it is unnecessary to delay surgery for patients with PFF who receive PAI.

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