Treatment of a pregnant patient with bilateral traumatic bimalleolar ankle fracture: a case report
Yunus Atıcı1, Onat Üzümcügil2, Merter Yalçınkaya3, Ayşegül Atıcı4, Yavuz Selim Kabukçuoğlu1, Yusuf Öztürkmen2
1Metin Sabancı Baltalimanı Kemik Hastalıkları Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Kliniği, İstanbul, Türkiye
2İstanbul Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Kliniği, İstanbul, Türkiye
3Horasan Devlet Hastanesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Kliniği, Erzurum, Türkiye
4İstanbul Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Fizik Tedavi ve Rehabilitasyon Kliniği, İstanbul, Türkiye
Keywords: Ankle; bilateral; bimalleolar fracture; pregnancy.
Abstract
The incidence of ankle fractures has been increasing among all fractures due to skeletal traumas. Bimalleolar fractures account for 25% of all ankle fractures. Bilateral traumatic bimalleolar ankle fracture is a very rare condition. In such a clinical presentation, pregnancy managed with cesarean procedure complicates the situation due to increased risk of venous thromboembolism and fatal pulmonary embolism. In this article, we report a 25-year-old female case within an eight-month pregnancy period who had bilateral bimalleolar ankle fracture due to an accident in a motor-vehicle and the clinical and radiological results of surgical treatment were discussed in the light of current literature data.