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Antibiotic for Extended Postoperative Prophylaxis

Jun 30, 2022

There is little research on the impact of prolonged (>24-hour) antibiotic administration following primary and aseptic revision total joint arthroplasty (TJA) on periprosthetic joint infection rate...

Adverse Events After Posterior Lumbar Fusion Are Not Sufficiently Characterized

Jun 30, 2022

Because of database constraints, many studies only monitor outcomes after surgeries like posterior lumbar fusion (PLF) for 30 days. However, detrimental occurrences may not have reached a halt by that...

Homeless Patients Undergo Total Joint Arthroplasty

Jun 30, 2022

Homelessness is a major social predictor of health, with a patient population of about 580,000. Total Joint Arthroplasty (TJA) is a successful treatment for symptomatic end-stage osteoarthritis of the...

Importance of Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting Early Revision Surgery

Jun 30, 2022

When compared to the first THA, revision total hip arthroplasty (THA) is associated with greater morbidity, mortality, and healthcare expenditures due to a technically more difficult surgical process....

Soft-tissue Sarcoma Metastasis to the Musculoskeletal System

Jun 30, 2022

Soft-tissue sarcomas are a rare and exceedingly diverse category of tumors that account for 1% of all human malignancies. The most prevalent location of distant metastasis is the lungs, followed by th...

Hospitals' Price Transparency For Total Knee & Hip Arthroplasty

Jun 30, 2022

In an effort to promote price transparency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ordered that hospitals post chargemasters and pricing for diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) online beginn...

Article Authorship in Flagship Orthopaedic Journals by Gender

Jun 30, 2022

For many years, there has been a gender discrepancy in orthopedic surgery. Because research has an impact on promotions, researchers for a study sought to determine the patterns in female authorship i...

Subtrochanteric Osteotomy in Crowe Type IV Hip Dysplasia

Jun 30, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to determine if there were any changes in clinical and radiographic results between three distinct stem designs for subtrochanteric osteotomy in Crowe type-IV hip devel...

Lumbar Disc Herniation Microendoscopic Decompression

Jun 30, 2022

Endoscopic spine surgery is becoming more popular, and techniques, platforms, and applications are expanding at a rapid pace. Despite widespread interest in these approaches, long-term patient-reporte...

The Influence of Osteoporosis on Adverse Outcomes Following Degenerative Lumbar Fusion

Jun 30, 2022

Nearly 200 million people worldwide have osteoporosis. There is limited accessible evidence on osteoporosis patients with short-segment lumbar fusion result in degenerative disc disease (DDD). For a s...

The Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program Adheres to the Universal Interview Offer Day Guidelines

Jun 29, 2022

The COVID-19 epidemic caused structural modifications in the 2020 to 2021 application cycle. Among the changes were the American Orthopaedic Association Council of Residency Program Directors' suggest...

Transfusions of RBC & the Risk of Postoperative VTE

Jun 29, 2022

Postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious complication of orthopedic surgery, with significant morbidity and death. Knowing a patient's VTE risk can aid in selecting perioperative VTE pr...

Fragility Fractures Are Caused By the Accident Environment

Jun 29, 2022

Fragility fractures are a persistent cause of illness in the elderly, with alarming incidence and escalating expense. Although falls are well recognized as the most common cause of fractures, the spec...

Extra-Articular Proximal Tibia Fractures Fixation

Jun 29, 2022

For a biomechanical investigation, researchers sought to determine the relative efficiency of modern single and dual implant designs for fixing an extra-articular proximal tibia fracture model. Synthe...

Industry Payments to Orthopaedic Journal Editorial Board Members

Jun 29, 2022

Although industry payments to physicians and surgeons continued to be a source of contention, connections between industry and orthopedic surgeons were strengthening. Notably, despite the passage of t...

Surface-dependent Regulation of Osteogenesis & Implant Osseointegration: A Biological Basis

Jun 29, 2022

A biomaterial surface's chemical and physical properties influence bone marrow stromal cells. They undergo a rapid change in cell shape to assume a columnar morphology typical of a secretory osteoblas...

The Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Interview Process on the Universal Interview Offer Day

Jun 29, 2022

The Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors of the American Orthopaedic Association advocated establishing a universal offer day (UOD) in the 2020 residency match. Although the choice was made in a...

Coronary Revascularization for Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Jun 17, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to analyze the purpose of the systematic review and meta-analysis was to review the current literature comparing CABG and PCI in diabetic patients and provide an up-to-...

Intraoperative Redosing of SAP in Addition to Preoperative Prophylaxis vs. Single-dose Prophylaxis for Surgical Site Infection Prevention

Jun 17, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to assess the incidence of surgical site infections using preoperative surgical antibiotic prophylaxis (SAP) plus extra intraoperative redosing to single-dose preoperat...

Results of a Phase II Trial of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (FOLFIRINOX or GEM/nab-PTX) for Borderline-Resectable Pancreatic Cancer (NUPAT-01)

Jun 17, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to determine the high frequency of side effects associated with multidrug chemotherapy, the survival benefit, and the feasibility of employing neoadjuvant chemotherapy ...

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