Femur fractures. As the strongest bone in your body, your femur can support as much as 30 times your body weight. Because it’s so strong, it usually takes a lot of force to break or fracture it.

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An 82-year-old woman with a medical history of diabetes mellitus type 2 (most recent hemoglobin A1c of 10.3%), atrial fibrillation (on apixaban) and hypothyroidism presented to our ED with left ...

In an eight year period, 31 patients with proximal femoral fractures resulting from sports accidents were treated by implantation of either a Gamma nail or a dynamic hip screw. Return to work or ...

Merck has argued that it does, saying that in 2009 it proposed adding a warning about femur fractures but was initially rejected by the FDA. The warning was eventually added in 2011. Now-deceased ...

Kevin K. Kang, M.D., from Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, and colleagues randomly assigned 50 patients with an isolated intracapsular femoral neck fracture and treated with ...