foot and potential screw breakage. postoperative follow-ups postoperative follow-ups are done to ensure that treatment has produced satisfactory results, such as checking if malreduction of any of the associated structures in a maisonneuve fracture has occurred. follow-ups may be performed from 6 months to 2 years after the surgery and are applicable for both non-operative and operative treatments. epidemiology psoriatic arthritis affecting the foot exact incidence rates are unknown, but it is believed that the maisonneuve fracture accounts for 5% of all ankle injuries treated in surgery. the maisonneuve fracture has been reported in patients as young as 17–19 years old, and up to 42–70 years old. the injury is mostly seen in male patients. a clinical article on studies conducted between 2014 and 2019, published in orthopaedic surgery in 2020, reported that 78% of admitted patients with a maisonneuve fracture were male. sporting injuries are the most common risk factor of causing a maisonneuve fracture. sport-related injuries were associated with 50% of all maisonneuve fracture cases examined in one clinical study. comorbidity of the maisonneuve fracture and other health conditions, such as hypertension, obesity, and psoriatic arthritis, have been identified in patient medical histories.