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J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 17, No 11, November 2009, Jeffrey Pike, MD, Darin Davidson, MD, MHSc, Donald Garbuz, MD, MHSc, FRCSC, Clive P. Duncan, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Peter J. O’Brien, MD, FRCSC and Bassam A. Masri, MD, FRCSC Postoperative periprosthetic femoral fractures around the stem of a total …

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery – British Volume, Vol 91-B, Issue 7, K. A. Lefaivre, MD, SM Epi, FRCS C, Assistant Professor1; S. A. Macadam, MD, SM Epi, FRCS C, Plastic Surgeon2; D. J. Davidson, MD, MSc, Orthopaedic Resident1; R. Gandhi, MD, SM Epi, FRCS C, Assistant Professor3; H. …

NULL Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery – British Volume, Vol 91-B, Issue 7, A. J. Timperley, MBChB, FRCS(Ed), DPhil(Oxon), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon1; and S. L. Whitehouse, BSc(Hons), PhD, Biostatistician/Research Fellow2 Recently the National Patient Safety Agency in the United Kingdom published a report entitled «Mitigating surgical risk in patients …

David J. Hak, MD, MBA, Wade R. Smith, MD and Takashi Suzuki, MD J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 17, No 7, July 2009, Emergent life-saving treatment is required for high-energy pelvic fracture with associated hemorrhage and hemodynamic instability. Advances in prehospital, interventional, surgical, and critical care have led to …

Paul F. Lachiewicz, MD and Justin R. Kauk, MD J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 17, No 6, June 2009, Anterior iliopsoas impingement and tendinitis is a poorly understood and likely underrecognized cause of groin pain and functional disability after total hip arthroplasty. The patient history and physical examination findings …

Bruce H. Ziran, MD; Dan S. Heckman, MD; Carlos M. Olarte, MD; Kent Chou, MD; Jennifer Baranick, OTR/L ORTHOPEDICS 2009; 32:83 Studies comparing the intramedullary hip screw and the compression hip screw for fixation of intertrochanteric hip fractures have shown little difference in final functional outcome. However, the characteristics of …

Friedl G, Radl R, Stihsen C, Rehak P, Aigner R, Windhager R; Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume 91 (2), 274-81 (Feb 2009) BACKGROUND: Aseptic loosening is the most frequent cause of implant failure in total hip arthroplasty. While a direct link between aseptic loosening and periprosthetic bone …

Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2009 Jan;467(1):219-24. Epub 2008 Sep 24 Sanchez-Sotelo J, Berry DJ, Hanssen AD, Cabanela ME. Most reports on two-stage reimplantation have focused on the short-term cure rate of infection, but little is known about long-term reinfection-free survival or mechanical durability. We retrospectively reviewed 168 patients (169 hips) …

J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 16, No 12, December 2008 Rafael J. Sierra, MD, Robert T. Trousdale, MD, Reinhold Ganz, MD and Michael Leunig, MD As a distinct entity, femoroacetabular impingement has been suggested to be a preosteoarthritic mechanism. The condition occurs when the proximal femur repeatedly comes into …

J Arthroplasty. 2008 Dec;23(8):1239.e19-23. Hirschmann MT, Helfrich C, Friederich NF. We describe the case of a patient who had undergone a total hip arthroplasty for primary osteoarthritis 17 years previously. Clinical and radiologic signs of aseptic loosening compelled a revision arthroplasty. Surprisingly, the removed femoral stem turned out to be …