ナカニシ　カズオ   Kazuo Nakanishi   中西　一夫    所属   川崎医療福祉大学  リハビリテーション学部 理学療法学科    職種   教授
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Differences in clinical characteristics of cervical spine injuries in older adults by external causes: a multicenter study of 1512 cases.
掲載誌名	正式名：Scientific reports 略　 称：Sci Rep ISSNコード：20452322/20452322
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	12(1),pp.15867
著者・共著者	Yokogawa Noriaki, Kato Satoshi, Sasagawa Takeshi, et.al.
発行年月	2022/09
概要	Although traumatic cervical spine injuries in older adults are commonly caused by minor traumas, such as ground-level falls, their prognosis is often unfavorable. Studies examining the clinical characteristics of cervical spine injuries in older adults according to the external cause of injury are lacking. This study included 1512 patients of ≥ 65 years of age with traumatic cervical spine injuries registered in a Japanese nationwide multicenter database. The relationship between the external causes and clinical characteristics, as well as factors causing unfavorable outcomes at the ground-level falls, were retrospectively reviewed and examined. When fall-induced cervical spine injuries were categorized and compared based on fall height, the patients' backgrounds and injury statuses differed significantly. Of note, patients injured from ground-level falls tended to have poorer pre-injury health conditions, such as medical comorbidities and frailty, compared with those who fell from higher heights. For ground-level falls, the mortality, walking independence, and home-discharge rates at 6 months post-injury were 9%, 67%, and 80%, respectively, with preexisting medical comorbidities and frailty associated with unfavorable outcomes, independent of age or severity of neurological impairment at the time of injury.
DOI	10.1038/s41598-022-19789-y
PMID	36151125