Can Clinical and Surgical Parameters Be Combined to Predict How Long It Will Take a Tibia Fracture to Heal? A Prospective Multicentre Observational Study: The FRACTING Study.
Leo MassariFrancesco BenazzoFrancesco FalezRuggero CadossiDario PerugiaLuca PietrograndeDomenico Costantino AlojAntonio CaponeMichele D'ArienzoMatteo CadossiVincenzo LorussoGaetano CarusoMatteo GhiaraLuigi CiolliFilippo La CavaMarco GuidiFilippo CastoldiGiuseppe MarongiuAlessandra La GattutaDario Dell'OmoMichelangelo ScaglioneSandro GianniniMattia FortinaAlberto RivaPier Luigi De PalmaAntonio Pompilio GiganteBiagio MorettiGiuseppe SolarinoFrancesco LijoiGiovanni GiordanoPier Giorgio LondiniDanilo CastellanoGiuseppe SessaLuciano CostarellaAntonio BarileMariano BorrelliAttilio RotaRaffaele FontanaAlberto MomoliAndrea MicaglioGuido BassiRossano Stefano CornacchiaClaudio CastelliMichele GiudiciMauro MonesiLuigi Branca VerganoPietro ManiscalcoM'Putu BulabulaVincenzo ZottolaAuro CaraffaPierluigi AntinolfiFabio CataniClaudio SeverinoEnrico CastamanCarmelo ScialabbaVenceslao TovagliaPietro CorsiPaolo FriemelMarco RanellucciVincenzo CaiaffaGiovanni MaraglinoRoberto RossiAntonio PastronePatrizio CaldoraClaudio CusumanoPier Bruno SquarzinaUgo BaschieriEttore DemattèStefano GherardiCarlo De RobertoAlberto BelluatiAntonio GianniniCiro VillaniPietro PersianiSilvio DemitriBruno Di MaggioGuglielmo AbateFrancesca De TerlizziStefania SettiPublished in: BioMed research international (2018)
This study shows that the FRACTING score can be employed both to predict months needed for fracture healing and to identify immediately after treatment patients at risk of prolonged healing. In patients with high score values, new pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments to enhance osteogenesis could be tested selectively, which may finally result in reduced disability time and health cost savings.