Health-Related Quality of Life after Fractures of the Distal Forearm in Children and Adolescents-Results from a Center in Switzerland in 432 Patients.

Liebs, Thoralf Randolph; Lorance, Alex; Berger, Steffen Michael; Kaiser, Nadine; Ziebarth, Kai (2022). Health-Related Quality of Life after Fractures of the Distal Forearm in Children and Adolescents-Results from a Center in Switzerland in 432 Patients. Children, 9(10) MDPI 10.3390/children9101487

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(1) Background: We aimed to evaluate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children with fractures of the distal forearm and to assess if HRQoL was associated with fracture classification; (2) Methods: We followed up on 432 patients (185 girls, 247 boys) who sustained a fracture of the distal radius or forearm from 1/2007 to 6/2007, 1/2014 to 6/2014, and 11/2016 to 10/2017. Patients filled in the Quick-DASH (primary outcome) and the Peds-QL; (3) Results: The radius was fractured in 429 and the ulna in 175 cases. The most frequent injury of the radius was a buckle fracture (51%, mean age 8.5 years), followed by a complete metaphyseal fracture (22%, 9.5 years), Salter-Harris-2 fracture (14%, 11.4 years), greenstick fracture (10%, 9.3 years), Salter-Harris-1 fracture (1%, 12.6 years), and other rare injuries. The most common treatment was closed reduction and an above-elbow cast in 138 cases (32%), followed by a cast without reduction (30%), splint (28%), and K-wire fixation and cast (9%). Definite treatment was performed initially in 95.8%, a new cast or cast wedging was performed in 1.6%, and revision surgery was performed in 2.5%. There were no open reductions and no plate fixations. After a mean follow-up of 4.2 years, patients with buckle fractures had a mean Quick-DASH of 3.3 (scale of 0-100) (complete fracture: 1.5; greenstick: 1.5; SH-1: 0.9; SH-2: 4.1; others: 0.9). The mean function score of the PedsQL ranged from 93.0 for SH-2 fractures to 97.9 for complete fractures; (4) Conclusions: In this cohort of 432 children with fractures of the distal forearm, there was equally good mean mid- and long-term HRQoL when assessed by the Quick-DASH and the PedsQL. There was a trend for children with complete metaphyseal fractures reporting better HRQoL than patients with buckle fractures or patients with Salter-Harris II fractures, however, these differences were not statistically significant nor clinically relevant.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Endocrinology (DFKE) > Clinic of Paediatric Surgery

UniBE Contributor:

Liebs, Thoralf Randolph, Berger, Steffen Michael, Kaiser, Nadine, Ziebarth, Kai

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

2227-9067

Publisher:

MDPI

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

28 Oct 2022 10:59

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:27

Publisher DOI:

10.3390/children9101487

PubMed ID:

36291423

Uncontrolled Keywords:

conservative treatment forearm fracture health-related quality of life radius surgery ulna

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/174221

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/174221

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