Bilateral luxatio erecta: Recognition and reduction

Marks, Thomas Oliver McCall; Kelsall, Nicola Kim Richmond; Southgate, J

doi:10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01437.x

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“…Proximal humeral fractures were reported in nine patients [ 21 , 22 , 26 , 40 , 42 , 43 , 50 – 52 ] (21,42%). Unilateral fracture of the greater tuberosity was found in five of these cases [ 21 , 22 , 40 , 50 , 51 ], while bilateral involvement was found in four patients [ 26 , 42 , 43 , 52 ]. More severe fractures of the proximal humerus have been reported in only one case.…”

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The 'Holy Grail' of shoulder dislocations: a systematic review on traumatic bilateral luxatio erecta; is it in reality a once-in-a-lifetime experience for an orthopaedic surgeon?

Ntourantonis,

Mousafeiris,

Pantazis

et al. 2023

Arch Orthop Trauma Surg

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Introduction Even though shoulder dislocation is thought to be the most common dislocation treated in the Emergency Department, inferior ones, known as Luxatio Erecta, comprise only 0.5% of them. Taking into consideration the rareness of unilateral Luxatio Erecta, bilateral cases should be even fewer. The purpose of this paper is to identify the reported number of cases of Traumatic Bilateral Luxatio Erecta in the literature over the last 100 years and to summarize the mechanism of injury, the initial management, and the complications of these patients. Materials and methods We performed a systematic review of the literature regarding Traumatic Bilateral Luxatio Erecta. All articles published until 31st of December 2022 in PubMed and Google Scholar databases were searched using the terms “luxatio erecta”, ‘inferior dislocation”, and “bilateral”. Results Eighty-two articles were retrieved from PubMed and Google Scholar search. Forty-four of them were initially included in our review. Six additional articles meeting the inclusion criteria were found from cross-references. Conclusion The presence of this injury is extremely rare with only 51 cases in the literature. The incidence of concomitant injuries and complications seems to be extremely high and neurological deficits were detected on 42.8% of patients with Bilateral Luxatio Erecta. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review of the literature regarding Traumatic Bilateral Luxatio Erecta that includes articles not only in English, a fact that provides more reliability on the estimation of the real number of cases of this rare injury compared to any other review on this subject to date.

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The 'Holy Grail' of shoulder dislocations: a systematic review on traumatic bilateral luxatio erecta; is it in reality a once-in-a-lifetime experience for an orthopaedic surgeon?

Ntourantonis,

Mousafeiris,

Pantazis

et al. 2023

Arch Orthop Trauma Surg

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“…In this study, we reviewed the mechanism of injuries of all cases (57 articles) and classified the injuries into seven parts: Falling accidents (25 articles),[ 3 8 9 10 12 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 54 ] accidents related to working (5 articles),[ 12 14 35 36 37 38 ] sport related injuries (9 articles),[ 2 19 36 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 ] traffic accidents (10 articles),[ 4 13 15 45 46 47 48 49 50 57 ] alcholism, epilepsy, syncope, seizure and sleeping related injuries (6 articles),[ 5 8 18 40 51 52 ] unusual age (infant) with unusual mechanism (1 article),[ 53 ] boat accident (1 article)[ 54 ] [ Table 1 ].…”

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Luxatio erecta humeri: Report of a swimming injury with analysis of the mechanism of the injury and associated injuries in literature

Gökkuş

Sağtaş

Saylık³

et al. 2015

J Emerg Trauma Shock

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Inferior shoulder dislocation also referred to as luxatio erecta is an unusual and rare type of shoulder dislocation. Its incidence is about 0.5% among all shoulder dislocations. After an exhaustive search of all the available literature we were unable to find a swimming accident case that did not have other associated injuries and an uneventful reduction. The mechanism of the injury was mostly related to direct axial loading and indirect hyperabduction lever arm. We would like to emphasize the importance of this being a swimming accident, a type of accident that requires awareness of the possibility of dangerous asphyxia injuries caused by panic in the water (swimming pool, river, lake, sea, etc.). We described the nature of the injury and review the literature concerning the mechanism of the injury and associated neurovascular impairment at admission time. We also presented a supplemental video to contribute to the education of young residents and orthopedic surgeons.

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Luxatio erecta

Kok¹,

Hove²,

Noort³

2016

Ned Tijdschr Traumachir

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Bilateral luxatio erecta: Recognition and reduction

Abstract: Luxatio erecta is the rarest form of shoulder dislocation, accounting for 0.5% of all glenohumeral dislocations. Bilateral cases are rarer still with only 12 accounts described in medical literature. We describe an unusual case and its management.

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The 'Holy Grail' of shoulder dislocations: a systematic review on traumatic bilateral luxatio erecta; is it in reality a once-in-a-lifetime experience for an orthopaedic surgeon?

The 'Holy Grail' of shoulder dislocations: a systematic review on traumatic bilateral luxatio erecta; is it in reality a once-in-a-lifetime experience for an orthopaedic surgeon?

Luxatio erecta humeri: Report of a swimming injury with analysis of the mechanism of the injury and associated injuries in literature

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