• Foot Ankle Surg · Jun 2020

    Multicenter Study

    Functional outcome 3-6 years after operative treatment of closed Weber B ankle fractures with or without syndesmotic fixation.

    • Stein Erik Utvåg, Markus Georg Naumann, Ulf Sigurdsen, and Knut Stavem.
    • Department of Orthopaedics, Akershus University Hospital, Norway; Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.
    • Foot Ankle Surg. 2020 Jun 1; 26 (4): 378-383.

    BackgroundTo compare the long-term functional outcomes of patients surgically treated for Weber B ankle fractures with or without syndesmotic fixation.MethodsIn total, 959 adult patients with previous treatment with open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) for closed ankle fractures were eligible for inclusion in a cross-sectional postal survey 3-6 years after surgery; 645 had Weber B fractures. The survey assessed functional outcomes with three validated ankle questionnaires.ResultsIn total 365 (57%) patients responded at a median of 4.2 years after the trauma. After adjusting for age, sex, education, smoking status, body mass index, diabetes, physical status before surgery, fracture classification, and duration of surgery, patients with a syndesmotic fixation had no different OMAS score (p = 0.98), LEFS score (p = 0.61), and SEFAS score (p = 0.98) than those without a syndesmotic fixation. Trimalleolar fracture was associated with worse functional outcomes than unimalleolar on two of the scales, the OMAS (p = 0.028) and LEFS (p = 0.046).ConclusionsIn multivariable analysis, patients with a syndesmotic fixation had no worse long-term functional outcomes than those without syndesmotic fixation.Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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