Arterial Injury to the Profunda Femoris Artery Following Internal Fixation of a Neck of Femur Fracture with a Compression Hip Screw

Overview

Journal Case Rep Orthop

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2014 Jan 24

PMID 24455367

Citations 7

Authors

Simon Craxford

Michael Gale

Kimberly Lammin

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Abstract

We report the case of an 82-year-old woman who developed extensive proximal thigh swelling and persistent anaemia following internal fixation of an extracapsular neck of femur fracture with a dynamic hip screw (DHS). This was revealed to be a pseudoaneurysm of a branch of profunda femoris artery on angiography. Her case was further complicated by a concurrent pulmonary embolism (PE). She underwent endovascular coil embolisation of the pseudoaneurysm. An IVC filter was inserted and the patient was fully anticoagulated once it had been ensured that there was no active bleeding. In this case, we review the potential for anatomical variations in the blood supply to this region and discuss treatment options for a complicated patient. We recommend that a pseudoaneurysm should be part of a differential diagnosis for postoperative patients with anaemia refractory to blood transfusion so as not to miss this rare but potentially serious complication.

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