Short-Term Outcomes and Influencing Factors After Ankle Fracture Surgery
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Patients and Methods
The institutional review board of our hospital approved the present study and waived the requirement for informed consent owing to the retrospective nature of the present study. We also safeguarded protected health information related to the subjects whose infromation was used in the study. We reviewed the medical records of consecutive patients who had undergone open reduction and internal fixation of an ankle fracture, including lateral malleolar fractures, at our institution from January
Results
A total of 88 ankles from 88 patients were ultimately included in the present study. The mean patient age at fracture surgery was 47.8 ± 16.0 (range 16.2 to 75.3) years. The mean BMI was 24.3 ± 3.4 (range 18.8 to 34.9) kg/m2. The patient demographic data are listed in Table 1. The largest subsets of patients were those with a stage 2 injury using the LH classification and stage 1 injury using the AO classification (Table 2).
Of the independent variables, the function in daily life score
Discussion
Although many studies have investigated the clinical outcomes after ankle fractures, most studies have reported the outcomes for specific subgroups of ankle fractures. We performed the present study to evaluate the early clinical outcomes and investigate the factors influencing these outcomes after ankle fracture surgery using multiple regression analysis. We found that the total FAOS was affected by the AO and LH classifications and the total AOFAS ankle-hindfoot scale score was affected by
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Financial Disclosure: This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (grant NRF-2016R1C1B2008557).
Conflict of Interest: None reported.
K.H.S. and S.-S.K. contributed equally to the writing of the present report.