Hong-Jiang Jiang, Xun-Xiang Tan, Guang-Ling Gao, Xiu-Gang Song, De-Bao Zou and Wei Yan
Background: Most fractures of femoral neck typically heal, but a significant proportion of fractures fail to heal, resulting in aseptic bone necrosis, delayed union or persistent nonunion. Specially, nonunion of fractured neck of femur in young adults is a serious problem. Some preclinical evidences show the therapeutic potential of autologous bone marrow for bone fracture healing; however, clinical outcome following of transplantation of bone marrow cells in patients with femoral neck nonunion has never been reported.
Case description: We describe a 57-year-old male who had a femoral neck nonunion and received autologous bone marrow transplantation, followed by growth factors injection. The primary endpoint of this study is to achieve radiological fracture healing (union) by evaluating anteroposterior images taken after and on 6th month, following bone marrow therapy and no serious adverse event occurred.
Literature review: To our knowledge, this is the first case in the literature of nonunion of femoral neck fracture treated with percutaneous autologous bone marrow transplantation.
Clinical relevance: This case suggests that autologous bone marrow transplantation, followed by plasma rich in growth factors (PRGF) could be considered as an exciting option to treat nonunion in femoral neck fracture.
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