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Orthopedics General

The Impact of the Lordosis Distribution Index on Failure after Surgical Treatment of Adult Spinal Deformity.

Mar 23, 2020

Proximal junctional failure (PFJ) is a common and dreaded complication of adult spinal deformity. Previous research has identified parameters associated with the development of PJF and the search for ...

Perceptions of risk for stress fractures: A qualitative study of female runners with and without stress fracture histories.

Mar 23, 2020

To gain insight into perceived factors related to bone health and stress fracture (SF) prevention for female runners and to understand their experiences within the medical community.Cohort qualitative...

Experimental study on the mechanical properties of biological hydrogels of different concentrations.

Mar 23, 2020

Biological hydrogels provide a conducive three-dimensional extracellular matrix environment for encapsulating and cultivating living cells. Microenvironmental modulus of hydrogels dictates several cha...

Relationship between skin and urine colonization and surgical site infection in the proximal femur fracture: a prospective study.

Mar 23, 2020

Antibiotic prophylaxis is routinely used in the surgical management of proximal femur fractures. The role of bacterial colonization of the skin and urine in the development of deep surgical site infec...

Influence of estradiol treatment on bone marrow cell differentiation in collagenase-induced arthritis.

Mar 23, 2020

Estrogen is one of the important regulators of the balance between bone formation and bone resorption that can modulate the levels and activity of certain growth factors and cytokines. In this study, ...

A comprehensive analysis to understand the mechanism of action of balneotherapy: why, how, and where they can be used? Evidence from in vitro studies performed on human and animal samples.

Mar 23, 2020

Balneotherapy (BT) is one of the most commonly used complementary therapies for many pathological conditions. Its beneficial effects are related to physical and chemical factors, but the exact mechani...

Increased Exhaustion of the Subchondral Bone-Derived Mesenchymal Stem/ Stromal Cells in Primary Versus Dysplastic Osteoarthritis.

Mar 23, 2020

Mesenchymal stem/ stromal cell (MSC) exhaustion has been suggested to be a hallmark of aging. Osteoarthritis has a complex etiology that comprises several factors. Dysplasia has been shown to be an i...

Neuropeptide Y knockdown in the dorsomedial hypothalamus improved basal and obesity-induced decrease in bone mass density.

Mar 23, 2020

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) has been shown to have a prominent role in the control of bone formation through the regulation of osteoblast activity. We aimed to investigate the role of hypothalamus-derived NP...

Systematic DOACs oral anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation and chronic kidney disease: the nephrologist's perspective.

Mar 23, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is highly prevalent among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and also associated with unfavorable outcome. Anticoagulant therapy is the mainstep of management in such...

Effect of Box Height on Box Jump Performance in Elite Female Handball Players.

Mar 19, 2020

Koefoed, N, Dam, S, and Kersting, UG. Effect of box height on box jump performance in elite female team handball players. J Strength Cond Res XX(X): 000-000, 2020-This study aimed at investigating whe...

Appropriate referral and selection of patients with chronic pain for Spinal Cord Stimulation: European consensus recommendations and e-health tool.

Mar 19, 2020

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an established treatment for chronic neuropathic, neuropathic-like and ischaemic pain. However, the heterogeneity of patients in daily clinical practice makes it often...

Inhibition of ice recrystallization during cryopreservation of cord blood grafts improves platelet engraftment.

Mar 19, 2020

Platelet engraftment following cord blood (CB) transplantation remains a significant hurdle to this day. The uncontrolled growth of ice, a process referred to as ice recrystallization, is one of sever...

Furosemide administration results in a transient alteration in calcium balance in mature horses.

Mar 19, 2020

Previous research documented that furosemide negatively impacted calcium balance for 3 days but did not determine when calcium balance returned to baseline. This study hypothesized that furosemide's ...

Is the buccal alveolar bone less affected by mini-implant assisted rapid palatal expansion than by conventional rapid palatal expansion? - A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Mar 19, 2020

To systematically review the existing literature comparing mini-implant assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE) and conventional rapid palatal expansion (RPE) regarding the effect on the buccal alveo...

Bone augmentation by octacalcium phosphate and collagen composite coated with poly-lactic acid cage.

Mar 19, 2020

Although octacalcium phosphate and collagen composite (OCP/Col) has demonstrated excellent bone regeneration, it has never achieved bone augmentation. The present study investigated whether it could b...

Influence of short-term dexamethasone on the efficacy of Lu-PSMA-617 in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Mar 19, 2020

Corticosteroids alone or in combination therapy are associated with favorable biochemical responses in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). We speculated that the intermittent addi...

The Effect of Plasma Lipids and Lipid-Lowering Interventions on Bone Mineral Density: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

Mar 13, 2020

Several epidemiological studies have reported a relationship between statin treatment and increased bone mineral density (BMD) and reduced fracture risk, but the mechanism underlying the purported rel...

Liquid nitrogen waterless fracking for the environmental protection of arid areas during unconventional resource extraction.

Mar 13, 2020

Many arid and semi-arid regions are rich in shale gas or coalbed methane. However, hydraulic-fracturing, commonly used for reservoir stimulation, has serious environmental impacts such as the consumpt...

An exemplar pyramid feature extraction based humerus fracture classification method.

Mar 13, 2020

Humerus fracture have been widely seen disease in the orthopedic clinics and classification of them is a hard process for orthopedist. The main aim of the proposed method is to classify humerus fractu...

Training Load, Neuromuscular Readiness, and Perceptual Fatigue Profile in Youth Elite Long-Jump Athletes.

Mar 13, 2020

To describe and identify individual trends and changes in training load, neuromuscular readiness, and perceptual fatigue measures in 2 youth elite long jumpers, finalists at the European Athletics U18...

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