Osteoporosis in children is rare and usually secondary to an underlying disease process. Most of the reported bone fracture incidences associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia occur during the course of the chemotherapy, not at the point of the first symptoms of leukemic disease, as happened with the case presented here.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to to find out the difference in CRP levels between patients with infection and patients without infection post-operative closed fracturebefore the clinical signs of infection arise. Material and Methods : Eighteen patients were diagnosed with closed fracture had underwent an ORIF, nine patients had shown a signs of infection and 9 other patients had no signs of infection. Both of the group subject had a C-Reactive protein examination conducted on the 2 nd and 4 th day post-operative . The study was donein the period March 2018 to July 2018. The study was conducted with a cross-sectional approach, to analyze differences in C-Reactive Protein values. Results: Subjects who performed closed fracture surgery was 18 subjects, 4 (22.2%) female subjects, 14 (77.8%) male subjects. With the location of the fracture of the humerus as much as 1 (5.6%) subjects, radius 2 (11.1%) subjects, femur 3 (16.7%) subjects, tibia 10 (55.6%) subjects, fibula 2 (11.1%) subjects. From the results of the data collected, CRP 2 days after surgery 1.93 ± 0.83, CRP 4 days after surgery 1.74 ± 1.1. Conclusion: From the results of the statistical analysis of the comparison of CRP levels inpatients with infection and patients without infectionpost-operative closed fracture there were significant differences, this was indicated by the p value of 0.001 (p <0.05).CRP levels after debridement on day 2 and 4 remain or increased in patients with infection.
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