Should Patients Who Have Periprosthetic Fractures Around the Hip or Knee Be Screened and Treated for Osteoporosis?

Affiliations

• ¹ Joint Reconstruction Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• ² Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• ³ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Center, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan.
• ⁴ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• ⁵ Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ⁶ Instituto Vita, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ⁷ Orthopaedic Department, Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
• ⁸ Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Orthopaedics, Palacky University Olomouc, Teaching Hospital Zdravotníků, Olomouc, Czech Republic.