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Orthopedics

More Than One in Four Seniors Reported Falling in Past Year

Jul 12, 2020

FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In 2018, 27.5 percent of older adults reported falling at least once in the previous year, with 10.2 percent reporting an injury from a fall, according to res...

Low Back Pain Also May Resolve in Some After Hip Replacement

Jul 12, 2020

FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Symptomatic low back pain (LBP) resolves in 82 percent of patients with hip and back pain who undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA), according to a study prese...

Electronic Health Records Fail to Detect Many Medication Errors

Jul 09, 2020

THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- There is wide variation in the safety performance of electronic health record (EHR) systems used in U.S. hospitals, according to a study recently published i...

Physically Demanding Jobs May Raise Risk for Knee Osteoarthritis

Jul 09, 2020

THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The odds of knee osteoarthritis (OA) are increased in association with heavy physically demanding occupations and occupational activities, according to a rev...

Multifactor Program Does Not Cut Serious Fall Injuries in Elderly

Jul 09, 2020

THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A nurse-administered multifactorial intervention does not result in a significantly lower rate of first adjudicated serious fall injury among older adults at...

A rare case of intramedullary spinal dermoid cyst in adult: A case report.

Jul 09, 2020

Intramedullary spine dermoid cysts are rare and benign tumors that occur mainly due to the defective closure of the neural tube during the development process. They are slow-growing tumor that manifes...

Spinal epidural lipomatosis with osteoporotic vertebral fracture presenting as acute thoracic myelopathy in a 33-year-old man with Cushing's disease.

Jul 09, 2020

Steroid-related spinal epidural lipomatosis (SEL) is a well-known condition most commonly encountered in patients taking chronic steroid medications. Endogenous Cushing's syndrome is a rare cause of S...

Comfrey (Symphytum spp.) as an alternative field crop contributing to closed agricultural cycles in chicken feeding.

Jul 09, 2020

Local cultivars of comfrey (Symphytum spp.) have been used to cover protein and mineral requirements of farm animals in low-input systems. Due to its known health-promoting (e.g. allantoin), but also ...

Bone interface modulates drug resistance in breast cancer bone metastasis.

Jul 09, 2020

Metastatic breast cancer cells on arriving at bone site interact with the bone cells to influence their growth, proliferation, and chemoresistance. There are currently no effective therapeutics availa...

Control of Hyperglycemia Using Differentiated and Undifferentiated Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Rats with Type 1 Diabetes.

Jul 09, 2020

Due to their ability in self-renewing and differentiation into a wide variety of tissues, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) exhibit outstanding potential for regenerative medicine. This study was aimed at...

Use of heparin coated vascular stents in femoropopliteal chronic total occlusions: Long term outcomes.

Jul 09, 2020

To evaluate the long-term clinical efficacy of the Tigris © stent (Gore ©) in femoropopliteal chronic total occlusions (CTOs).This single centre retrospective study included 29 patients treated with...

Judokas with low back pain have lower flexibility of the hip-spine complex: A case-control study.

Jul 06, 2020

Study whether male adult judokas with and without low back pain (LBP) have different hip-spine flexibility.Cross-sectional.Judo training centres.Judokas with (n = 29) and without (n = 33) LBP.Rang...

Predictive Model for Operative Intervention after Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Children with Equivocal CT Findings: A Pilot Study.

Jul 06, 2020

To study the clinical and radiologic factors predicting the need for surgical intervention after blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) in children with equivocal computed tomography (CT) scan findings.We perfo...

In silico feasibility assessment of extracorporeal delivery of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound to intervertebral discs within the lumbar spine.

Jul 06, 2020

Low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) may have utility for noninvasive treatment of discogenic lower back pain through stimulating, remodeling and accelerating healing of injured or degenerated inte...

Novel FEMASK-score, a histopathologic assessment for destructive Charcot neuropathic arthropathy, reveals intraneural vasculopathy and correlates with progression and best treatment.

Jul 06, 2020

Charcot neuropathic arthropathy is a debilitating, rapidly destructive degenerative joint disease that occurs in diabetic, neuropathic midfoot. Clinicoradiologic assessment for Charcot neuropathic art...

Evaluation of Blunt Force Trauma for Culling of Neonatal Piglets On-Farm.

Jul 06, 2020

Twenty-seven neonate piglets (range from 0.35 to 1.17 kg) were evaluated for the effectiveness of blunt force trauma as a method of on-farm cull. Brainstem function, brain injury and haemorrhage score...

Gene-gene and gene-lifestyle interactions of AKAP11, KCNMA1, PUM1, SPTBN1, and EPDR1 on osteoporosis risk in middle-aged adults.

Jul 06, 2020

Osteoporosis is associated with genetic and environmental factors. The aim of this article was to determine how the polygenic risk scores (PRS) of genetic variants that affect osteoporosis and its rel...

Low Physical Function May Up Bone Loss After Hip Fracture

Jul 04, 2020

THURSDAY, July 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Older patients with low physical function and lower lean body mass (LBM) may be at risk for greater decline in tibia bone properties during the first year af...

Omitting Routine Radiography of Traumatic Ankle Fractures After Initial 2-Week Follow-up Does Not Affect Outcomes: The WARRIOR Trial: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.

Jul 02, 2020

The clinical consequences of routine follow-up radiographs for patients with ankle fracture are unclear, and their usefulness is disputed. The purpose of the present study was to determine if routine ...

Risk Factors for Revision of Polished Taper-Slip Cemented Stems for Periprosthetic Femoral Fracture After Primary Total Hip Replacement: A Registry-Based Cohort Study from the National Joint Registry for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man.

Jul 02, 2020

Total hip replacement (THR) with a cemented polished taper-slip (PTS) femoral stem has excellent long-term results but is associated with a higher postoperative periprosthetic femoral fracture (PFF) r...

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