• A Piazzolla, M Baglioni, G Solarino, G Vicenti, A Panella, and B Moretti.
• Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche di Base, Neuroscienze ed Organi di Senso - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"- A.U.O.C. Policlinico di Bari - U.O. Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Italy. Electronic address: dott.piazzolla@gmail.com.
• Injury. 2018 Nov 1; 49 Suppl 3: S74-S76.

Introductionacetabular fractures are difficult to treat with often an unsatisfactory results for patients. The aim of this study is to investigate about the health-related quality-of-life outcome of patients with a traumatic acetabular fracture, as recorded at least 24 months after their surgery.Methodsa cohort of patients underwent a dedicated acetabular surgical reconstruction for a pelvic trauma between November 2011 and May 2016, were enrolled to investigate, at least two years after injury, their midterm quality of life; SF-36 and LiSat-11 were used.Results35 patients were enrolled but only 28 patients were revisited, 20 males (714%) and 8 females (286%) with a mean age of 43 years (19-73). The most common cause was motor vehicle accident (655%). Lower score after trauma are reported in both tests, SF-36 and LiSat 11, for all items.Discussioncomparing the SF-36 score in the Italian normative sample with our SF-36 score before the trauma there is no statistically significant difference (p = 0.1661) underlining how the patients before the trauma were healthy and in good health. Both scores, SF-36 and LiSat-11, before and after trauma are statistically different with respectively p = 0,0002 and p = 0,049 which proves the lower quality of life after trauma in comparison to their life before trauma.ConclusionsAlthough the treatment protocols of acetabular fractures have greatly improved over the years, these continue to have disabling consequences that hardly allow to recover a good quality of life two years after the trauma.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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