Curiosity or Underdiagnosed? Injuries to Thoracolumbar Spine with Concomitant Trauma to Pancreas

Journal of Clinical Medicine

TraumaRegister DGU¹  Jakob Hax²  Till Berk²  Sascha Halvachizadeh²  Teresa Di Primio²  Henrik Teuber²  Kai Sprengel²  KaiOliver Jensen²  Hans-Christoph Pape²  Rolf Lefering³ 

[1] ;Department of Trauma, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland;Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM), Witten/Herdecke University, 51109 Cologne, Germany;

关键词: spine injury;    thoracolumbar junction;    pancreatic injury;    trauma registry;    acute care surgery;    polytrauma management;   

DOI  :  10.3390/jcm10040700

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The pancreas is at risk of damage as a consequence of thoracolumbar spine injury. However, there are no studies providing prevalence data to support this assumption. Data from European hospitals documented in the TraumaRegister DGU^® (TR-DGU) between 2008–2017 were analyzed to estimate the prevalence of this correlation and to determine the impact on clinical outcome. A total of 44,279 patients with significant thoracolumbar trauma, defined on Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) as ≥2, were included. Patients transferred to another hospital within 48 h were excluded to prevent double counting. A total of 135,567 patients without thoracolumbar injuries (AIS ≤ 1) were used as control group. Four-hundred patients with thoracolumbar trauma had a pancreatic injury. Pancreatic injuries were more common after thoracolumbar trauma (0.90% versus (vs.) 0.51%, odds ratio (OR) 1.78; 95% confidence intervals (CI), 1.57–2.01). Patients with pancreatic injuries were more likely to be male (68%) and had a higher mean Injury Severity Score (ISS) than those without (35.7 ± 16.0 vs. 23.8 ± 12.4). Mean length of stay (LOS) in intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital was longer with pancreatic injury. In-hospital mortality was 17.5% with and 9.7% without pancreatic injury, respectively. Although uncommon, concurrent pancreatic injury in the setting of thoracolumbar trauma can portend a much more serious injury.

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