Coordinated balance between bone formation and bone resorption - bone remodeling
Infection
Blood loss
Dis location
Soft tissue injury
Vessel or nerve injury - Local complications (early) of fracture
AVN
Damage to epiphyseal plates
2nd OA
Delayed healing - Local complications (late) of fracture
Cardiac shock
Fat emboli
DVT
Pneumonia
Sepsis
Bed sores - Systemic complications of fracture
Compound fracture
Age
Malnutrition
Diabetes
Poor immobilisation
Cancer
, Radiotherapy
Ischaemia
Infection
Soft tissue injury - Factors which impair healing occurs fracture
Staph aureus
HIB
Salmonella typhi - Bacteria which cause osteomyelitis
Neutrophils - Histology of acute osteomyelitis
Fibrous tissue and inflammatory cells - Histology of chronic osteomyelitis
Septicaemia
Bone deformity
2nd OA
Sq cell carcinoma - Complications of chronic osteomyelitis
Reduction in amount of bone and loss of micro architecture - Osteoporosis
Idiopathic
Post menopause
Cushings
Hyper parathyroid
Hypogonadism
Thyrotoxicosis
Steroids - Causes of osteoporosis
Female
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