Journal of Rural Medicine  2015;10(1):43-47

doi:10.2185/jrm.2894

Nontraumatic central fracture dislocation of the hip in a patient with chronic kidney disease and post gastrectomy

Ken Shimizu ; Hisanori Kameda ; Haruo Kawamura ; Takeshi Makihara ; Yukiyo Shimizu

Keywords

chronic kidney disease; secondary hyperparathyroidism; insufficiency fracture; central fracture dislocation of the hip

Country

Japan

Language

English

Abstract

Objective: Patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism caused by chronic kidney disease (CKD) develop secondary osteoporosis, which increases fracture risk. We report a case of insufficiency fractures complicated by secondary osteoporosis caused by chronic renal failure and gastrectomy.
Patient: A 78-year-old man with a medical history of nephrotic syndrome and gastric cancer experienced an occult intertrochanteric fracture of his left femur after falling.
Results: Ten days after the first fracture, the patient was treated with hemodialysis for acute uremic symptoms. Eight weeks after this fracture, he sustained a right insufficiency acetabular fracture and was treated with total hip arthroplasty (THA).
Conclusion: For patients with CKD, effective fracture prevention is difficult. THA with reconstruction of the acetabulum was an effective therapy in a patient with nontraumatic central fracture dislocation of the hip.