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Incidence rate and topography of intra-pelvic arterial lesions associated with high-energy blunt pelvic ring injuries: a retrospective cohort study
BMC Emergency Medicine volumeĀ 21, ArticleĀ number:Ā 75 (2021)
Abstract
Background
The aim of this study was to determine the rate and topography of intra-pelvic arterial lesions associated with high-energy blunt pelvic ring injuries (PRI).
Methods
This retrospective cohort study was conducted in a level I trauma center serving 500,000 inhabitants. A total of 127 consecutive patients with high-energy blunt PRI were included between January 1st, 2014 and December 31st, 2017. Every patient had a total body or thoraco-abdominal computed tomography scan including contrast enhanced arterial sequences. A board-certified radiologist reviewed all the vascular images and precisely described every intra-pelvic arterial lesion in terms of localization. Complete pelvic series (standard radiographs and fine cut computed tomography images) were reviewed by three board-certified orthopedic surgeons experienced in PRI management, and Young and Burgess and AO/OTA classifications were determined. Demographic, clinical, therapeutic and outcome data were extracted from the institutional severely injured patientsā registry.
Results
Patientsā mean age was 45.3āyears and 58.3% were males. Fifteen (11.8%) had a total of 21 intra-pelvic arterial lesions: seven lesions of the obturator artery, four of the superior gluteal artery, three of the inferior gluteal artery, two of the vesical artery, and one of each of the following arteries: internal iliac, internal pudendal, fifth lumbar, lateral sacral, ilio-lumbar. These lesions occurred in 8.6% of lateral compression injuries, 33.3% of anteroposterior compression injuries and 23.5% of vertical shear and combined mechanism injuries (Young and Burgess classification, pā=ā0.003); and in 0% of type A injuries, 9.9% of type B injuries and 35% of type C injuries (AO/OTA classification, pā=ā0.001). Patients with an intra-pelvic arterial lesion were more likely to present with pre-hospital hemodynamic instability (pā=ā0.046) and to need packed red blood cells transfusion within the first 24āh (pā=ā0.023; they needed a mean of 7.53āunits vs. 1.88, pā=ā0.0016); however, they did not have a worst outcome in terms of complications or mortality.
Conclusions
This systematic study found an 11.8% rate of intra-pelvic arterial lesion related to high-energy blunt PRI. The obturator, superior gluteal and inferior gluteal arteries were most often injured. These findings are important for the aggressive management of high-energy blunt PRI.
Background
High-energy blunt pelvic ring injuries (PRI) represent a heavy burden for any institution taking care of severely injured patients [1,2,3]. Their incidence ranges from 1 to 10 cases/100ā²000/year [4,5,6].
Hemodynamic instability occurs in up to 17% of high-energy blunt PRI [7, 8], but an objective and specific rate is difficult to determine due to a lack of consensus in the definition of hemodynamic instability and the uncertainty about possible inclusion of low-energy PRI in some studies. Mortality rate in hemodynamically unstable PRI patients may be as high as 32% [7,8,9,10], with hemorrhage being the most common cause of death [8, 11, 12]. Hemodynamic instability may be caused by an intra-pelvic or extra-pelvic vascular injury [13]. Intra-pelvic bleeding occurs in almost all cases from bone fracture lines and venous lacerations, and in 10ā20% of the cases from an arterial tear [12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. Osseous and venous bleeding related to PRI is usually controlled by mechanical stabilization of the pelvis sometimes associated with pelvic packing [13, 19]. Arterial bleeding associated with PRI may need additional angiography and embolization or resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) for optimal management [13, 14, 19, 20].
Publications on arterial injuries related to PRI are scarce and for some of them date back to more than 10āyears ago [16, 17, 21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28]. The aim of the present study was therefore to determine the current rate of intra-pelvic arterial lesions (IPAL) associated with high-energy blunt PRI, as well as their topography, in order to update knowledge on these lethal injuries and optimize their aggressive management.
Methods
Study population and design
The setting of this retrospective cohort study was a 1900-bed urban academic medical center serving roughly 500,000 inhabitants (primary to tertiary care). This center is a level I trauma center according to the definitions of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons and of the institutionās national medical authority [29, 30].
Identification of all consecutive patients admitted with a high-energy blunt pelvic ring injury was performed using the prospectively filled institutional severely injured patientsā registry. Among other items, Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) codes are reported in this registry [31]. Inclusion criteria were: 1) hospital admission between January 1st, 2014 and December 31st, 2017; 2) AIS code corresponding to a PRI (856,100.2, 856,101.3, 856,151.2, 856,152.3, 856,161.3, 856,162.4, 856,163.4, 856,164.5, 856,171.4, 858,172.4, 856,173.5, 856,174.5); 3) ageāā„ā16āyears old at the time of admission; and 4) available computed tomography (CT) images of the pelvis including arterial sequences. Exclusion criteria were: 1) penetrating trauma, blast injuries, electrical injuries; 2) and low-energy trauma (fall from patientās own height). This left 127 patients with high-energy blunt PRI for the final analysis (Fig.Ā 1).
Outcome
The outcome was the presence of an IPAL related to the PRI. Every patient had a total body or thoraco-abdominal CT scan including contrast enhanced arterial sequences as part of the emergency management. Arterial sequences were obtained after intra-venous injection of 120āml of Accupaqueā¢ 350 (Iohexol, GE Healthcare AG, Opfikon, Switzerland) diluted with sodium chloride. A region of interest (ROI) was placed on the aorta to exactly define the arterial phase, which was followed by venous series in all cases, and sometimes by late acquisitions if deemed necessary. Some patients additionally had angiography and embolization if needed. All the vascular images were reviewed by one of the authors (SB, board-certified radiologist), and every IPAL was noted and precisely described in terms of localization.
Variables of interest
Demographic (age and sex), clinical (pre-hospital systolic blood pressure and heart rate), therapeutic (total number of packed red blood cells (PRBC) transfused during the first 24āh) and outcome data (survival or death, timing of death, length of stay in the intensive care unit, length of total hospitalization excluding rehabilitation, and presence of complication) were extracted from the severely injured patientsā registry, as well as AIS codes and Injury Severity Scores (ISS) [32, 33]. Definition of a complication was any serious condition developing after hospital admission and potentially aggravating the outcome (surgical wound complication, compartment syndrome, infection, pressure sore, thrombo-embolic event, organ failure, stroke, myocardial infarction, cardiopulmonary arrest). Definition of pre-hospital hemodynamic instability was: 1Ā°) pre-hospital systolic blood pressureā<ā90āmmHg; or 2Ā°) pre-hospital heart rateā>ā100ābpm. An accredited nurse calculated AIS codes and ISS [32, 33]. Complete pelvic image series (standard radiographs and fine cut CT images) were reviewed using an open-source picture archiving and communication system (PACS) workstation digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) viewer (OsiriX, Pixmeo SĆ rl, Bernex, Switzerland). Multiple plans two-dimensional and three-dimensional CT reconstructions were generated. Young and Burgess [21] and AO/OTA [34] classifications were consensually determined by three board-certified orthopedic surgeons with experience in PRI management (MdF, AA and AG).
Statistical analysis
Continuous variables were described by their meanāĀ±āstandard deviation (SD), median, and range, and categorical variables by their frequencies and relative percentages. We compared the mean number of PRBC transfused during the first 24āh by presence of IPAL at admission in the entire cohort by performing Mann-Whitney non-parametric test. The presence of IPAL was compared among categories of the Young and Burgess classification then among the AO/OTA classification by performing Fisherās exact tests. We also compared the presence of IPAL among categories of thoracic, abdominal and head/neck injuries (>ā2 versus ā¤2) using either Chi-2 test or Fisherās exact test, when expected frequencies were below 3.
In a second step, factors associated with pre-hospital hemodynamic instability on one hand and transfusion requirement during the first 24āh on the other hand were separately explored by univariate logistic regression analyses. Each association was reported using odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). In both models, the main predictor was the presence of an IPAL. We adjusted for the following confounders: gender and age in categories (16ā39, 40ā49, 50ā69, andāā„ā70āyears). We also tested for the Young and Burgess classification and ISS categorized as < andāā„ā25. We checked for the existence of multicollinearity (collin command using STATA) employing the variance inflation factor (VIF). If it was above 2, we considered that multicollinearity was problematic and simplified the multivariable models. We finally assessed the modelsā adequacy by applying the Hosmer-Lemeshowās test on final multivariable models.
In a third step, we explored the associations between factors and important outcome variables (death and complications) by performing logistic regression analyses, following the procedure used for pre-hospital hemodynamic instability.
All the analyses were performed using STATA IC 16.0 (Stata Corporation, College Station, TX, USA). Statistical significance was defined as pā<ā0.05.
Results
There were 127 patients with high-energy blunt PRI included in the study. The mean age of the cohort was 45.3āĀ±ā18.4āyears (range 17.8ā87.9) and 74 patients (58.3%) were male. Clinical, therapeutic and outcome data of the cohort are further described in TableĀ 1.
Fifteen (11.8%) of the patients had one or more associated IPAL. A total of 21 IPAL were highlighted: seven lesions of the obturator artery, four of the superior gluteal artery, three of the inferior gluteal artery, two of the vesical artery, and one of each of the following arteries: internal iliac, internal pudendal, fifth lumbar, lateral sacral, ilio-lumbar (TableĀ 2). FigureĀ 2 shows the topography of the IPAL found in this study.
Six out of 15 IPAL patients (40.0%) needed selective embolization to control arterial bleeding and hemodynamic instability. Table 2 depicts the embolization sites. These six patients also needed PRBC transfusion during the first 24āh. Five other IPAL patients were managed with PRBC transfusion, and the remaining four did not need PRBC transfusion to control hemodynamic instability.
The presence of an IPAL was not associated with other severe extra-pelvic injuries (Supplement TableĀ 1).
According to the Young and Burgess classification, IPAL occurred in 8.6% of lateral compression injuries, 33.3% of anteroposterior compression injuries and 23.5% of vertical shear and combined mechanism injuries (TableĀ 3). These lesions were significantly more frequent in anteroposterior compression and vertical shear and combined mechanism type fractures (pā=ā0.003). According to the AO/OTA classification, IPAL occurred in 0.0% of type A injuries, 9.9% of type B injuries and 35.0% of type C injuries (Table 3). These lesions were significantly more frequent in type C injuries (pā=ā0.001).
TableĀ 4 shows the analyses of factors associated with pre-hospital hemodynamic instability, and TableĀ 5 of those associated with transfusion requirement during the first 24āh. Both pre-hospital hemodynamic instability and need for transfusion during the first 24āh were associated with IPAL in the multivariable analyses. The presence of an IPAL was associated with a higher mean number of PRBC transfused during the first 24āh (7.5āĀ±ā11.5 (median 4, range 0ā40) vs. 1.88āĀ±ā4.33 (median 0, range 0ā32); pā=ā0.0016).
Further analysis did not highlight any significant association between the presence of an IPAL and complication (pā=ā0.260) or death (pā=ā0.206) occurrences. Complication occurrence was associated with severe thoracic injuries (pā=ā0.027), and death occurrence with severe head and neck injuries (pā=ā0.006).
Discussion
This systematic study found an 11.8% rate of IPAL among patients sustaining high-energy blunt PRI. The three most often injured arteries were the obturator artery, the superior gluteal artery and the inferior gluteal artery. Present study results fall within the lower part of the range of IPAL reported in the literature (10ā20%) [13,14,15,16,17,18]. These IPAL were diagnosed using contrast enhanced arterial sequences of emergency CT scans performed on all the patients of the study cohort as per local high-energy trauma patientsā management protocol. Only a small part of the cohort (10 patients) had additional angiography, raising the question of potential underdiagnosis of IPAL. Underdiagnosis did probably not happen, as CT scan with contrast enhanced arterial sequences is considered more sensitive than conventional angiography for detection of active arterial extravasation (0.3ā0.5āmL/min bleeding rate detection for CT vs. 0.5ā1.0āmL/min bleeding rate detection for conventional angiography) and also allows a rapid vascular cartography of the whole pelvis [35]. Performing an additional angiography on all the patients is controversial and time-consuming and might delay appropriate management of some multiply injured patients [13, 14, 35]. Therefore, CT scan imaging is validated as the first step management to provide adequate information regarding arterial bleeding (including IPAL) and potential need for additional angiography and embolization [13, 19, 23, 25, 35, 36].
A total of 21 IPAL were found among 15 patients sustaining high-energy blunt PRI. The obturator artery was most often injured (seven times out of 15 patients, 46.7%), followed by the superior gluteal artery (four times, 26.7%), the inferior gluteal artery (three times, 20.0%), the vesical artery (two times, 13.3%) and the internal iliac, internal pudendal, fifth lumbar, lateral sacral and ilio-lumbar arteries (each one time, 6.7%). The literature about arterial lesion topography in case of high-energy blunt PRI is scarce with only two recent retrospective studies [15, 27]. Metz et al. investigated on a series of 842 consecutive PRI patients, 49 of them having had a pelvic angiography [27]. Among the 49 pelvic angiography patients, they found 21 patients without IPAL, 19 with multiple IPAL, and nine with a single IPAL. Hagiwara et al. studied a cohort of 234 consecutive PRI patients, 81 of them having had a pelvic angiography with evidence of IPAL in 61 cases [15]. In both studies, pelvic CT scan imaging was not used to assess the presence of IPAL, and angiography was obtained on only a subset of the cohorts. Therefore, a systematic assessment of IPAL incidence was not performed. However, both publications and other ones highlight that terminal branches of the internal iliac artery (especially the superior gluteal, inferior gluteal, obturator, internal pudendal, vesical and lateral sacral arteries) are most often damaged, as they are close to bone and ligamentous structures [15, 16, 23, 26,27,28]. Rarely, common and external iliac artery lesions may also occur [17, 24, 26]. The present study confirms published data on IPAL associated with high-energy blunt PRI and has the advantage to be a systematic investigation of a cohort of 127 consecutive patients having all had contrast enhanced CT-scan arterial imaging allowing diagnosis and accurate description of IPAL.
The risk of IPAL was significantly higher among patients with anteroposterior and vertical shear and combined mechanism type fractures (Young and Burgess) and also among patients with type C injuries (AO/OTA). A possible explanation for these findings is that these injury patterns might imply higher distracting forces on arteries close to bony and ligamentous structures than less displaced and less unstable lateral compression lesions and type B fractures. Metz et al. reported a higher number of posterior IPAL (i.e. superior gluteal artery) occurring with anteroposterior compression type injuries, a higher number of anterior IPAL (i.e. obturator and internal pudendal arteries) with lateral compression type injuries and no occurrence of IPAL with vertical shear type injuries [27]. Three other papers also reported a higher incidence of IPAL in patients with type C injuries [15, 26, 27]. Although the present study did not find any occurrence of IPAL with type A fractures, which are the ones not classifiable with the Young and Burgess system, this finding must not wrongly reassure the physician in-charge, as previous publications have reported such occurrences [15, 26, 27].
Hemodynamic instability and the need for a higher number of PRBC transfusions were associated with the presence of an IPAL. This seems evident, as any high-pressure arterial source of bleeding might lead to an important amount of blood loss which is practically more difficult to control than venous bleeding [13, 14, 19, 20]. Severe associated extra-pelvic injuries may also have impacted hemodynamic instability and the need for PRBC transfusion in the present study. However, as PRI patients with IPAL did not have more severe extra-pelvic injuries than PRI patients without IPAL, this influence does not seem paramount. Surprisingly, the association of IPAL with hemodynamic instability and higher needs of PRBC did not lead to higher complication or death rates, which were linked to associated severe extra-pelvic injuries. One possible explanation lies in the institutional high-energy PRI management protocol involving early and aggressive use of angiography and selective embolization whenever hemodynamic instability persisted after emergent mechanical stabilization of the pelvis and PRBC transfusion. In the present study, embolization was used in 40% of IPAL patients. This might have led to an early control of arterial bleeding responsible for persisting hemodynamic instability despite PRBC transfusion and pelvic stabilization. The most frequent arterial lesions involved in embolization procedures were on the obturator, superior gluteal, inferior gluteal and vesical arteries. Study design and extracted data did not allow to highlight which specific arterial lesion needed embolization to obtain hemodynamic stability in case of multiple IPAL. However, this topic is beyond the scope of discussion of this paper. Ultimately, hemodynamic instability in case of high-energy blunt PRI should lead to the prompt assessment of the presence of possible IPAL and to their aggressive management with PRBC transfusion and eventual invasive procedures (embolization, REBOA): respective indications for these invasive arterial hemostatic treatment modalities still need to be definitively clarified, and may either involve the treatment of every arterial blush visualized on contrast-enhanced CT-scan even if initial hemodynamic instability was controlled by fluid resuscitation and mechanical pelvic stabilization (assuming that the retroperitoneal cavity lacks any tamponade function), or be performed only by persisting hemodynamic instability, depending on local high-energy trauma patientsā management protocols [14, 18, 19].
The major limitation of this study is the low number of patients with IPAL (15 patients with 21 lesions) which might limit the accuracy of analysis on this subset of patients and lesions. Also, the multivariate analyses have some weaknesses: 1) the low numbers of outcomes may have constrained to select the number of covariates to evaluate; 2) PRI with and without IPAL could not be analyzed as totally isolated injuries, without being influenced by associated extra-pelvic injuries. These weaknesses were probably mitigated by the fact that PRI patients with IPAL did not have more severe extra-pelvic injuries than PRI patients without IPAL. However, this study is the first systematic investigation on a large cohort of consecutive patients with high-energy blunt PRI using a reliable diagnostic tool to highlight IPAL. Therefore, the rate and topography of IPAL found in this study might represent an important point for the aggressive management of high-energy blunt PRI patients.
Conclusions
This systematic study found an 11.8% rate of IPAL among patients sustaining high-energy blunt PRI. The three most often injured arteries were the obturator artery, followed by the superior gluteal artery and the inferior gluteal artery, which are all branches of the internal iliac artery. The risk of IPAL was significantly higher among patients with anteroposterior and vertical shear and combined mechanism type fractures (Young and Burgess classification) and also among patients with type C injuries (AO/OTA classification). Hemodynamic instability in case of high-energy blunt PRI should lead to the prompt assessment of the presence of possible IPAL and to their aggressive management with PRBC transfusion and eventual invasive arterial hemostatic procedures. This study emphasizes the unique diagnostic role of CT scan with contrast enhanced arterial sequences to point out or rule out arterial bleeding and the need for further therapeutic measures (angiography and embolization, REBOA). These findings are important for the aggressive management of hemodynamic instability in high-energy blunt PRI patients.
Availability of data and materials
The datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are not publicly available because a formal demand in this sense was not made to the institutional research ethics board at the time of project initiation. However, the above-mentioned datasets are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Abbreviations
- 95% CI:
-
95% confidence interval
- AIS:
-
Abbreviated Injury Scale
- AO/OTA:
-
Arbeitsgemeinschaft fĆ¼r Osteosynthesefragen / Orthopaedic Trauma Association
- CT:
-
computed tomography
- DICOM:
-
digital imaging and communications in medicine
- IPAL:
-
intra-pelvic arterial lesion
- ISS:
-
Injury Severity Score
- OR:
-
odds ratio
- PACS:
-
picture archiving and communication system
- PRBC:
-
packed red blood cells
- PRI:
-
pelvic ring injury
- REBOA:
-
resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta
- ROI:
-
region of interest
- SD:
-
standard deviation
- VIF:
-
variance inflation factor
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The authors would like to thank AngĆØle Gayet-Ageron, MD, PD, who carried out the statistical analysis for this study (Clinical Research Center & Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of health and community medicine, University of Geneva & University Hospitals of Geneva, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland).
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AEA carried out the conception and design of the study, was a major contributor for the acquisition and interpretation of data and drafted and critically revised the manuscript. SB carried out the radiological analysis of arterial lesions and drafted and critically revised the manuscript. EA carried out the conception of the institutional severely injured patientsā registry, was a major contributor for the acquisition of data, and critically revised the manuscript. MdF was a major contributor for the interpretation of data and critically revised the manuscript. AA was a major contributor for the interpretation of data and critically revised the manuscript. AG carried out the conception and design of the study, was a major contributor for the interpretation of data and drafted and critically revised the manuscript. Finally, all authors gave their final approval of the version to be published. They all agree to be accountable for all aspect of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
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Abboud, AE., Boudabbous, S., Andereggen, E. et al. Incidence rate and topography of intra-pelvic arterial lesions associated with high-energy blunt pelvic ring injuries: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Emerg Med 21, 75 (2021). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s12873-021-00470-y
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