It is known that age-related brain symptoms (gait difficulty and dementia) increase the likelihood of fall-related surgery.

In contrast, it is not known which types of brain disease underlie such symptoms most.

The aim of this study was to correlate brain diseases with the types of surgeries performed at our hospital for patients who had fallen.

This was a retrospective study at a multifaculty university hospital in Japan, with a 12-month recruiting period, a follow-up period of 3.0 ± 2.5 weeks, and ≥1×/week visits.

We assembled a neurogeriatric team to diagnose brain diseases with the use of brain imaging to the extent possible and correlated the diagnoses with types of fall-related surgery