Orthopedics News

SAN DIEGO — Prophylactic measures such as vancomycin, povidone-iodine and saline irrigation yielded similar rates of periprosthetic joint infection and wound complications at 3 months for high-risk patients undergoing joint arthroplasty.

Three risk assessment tools struggled to detect osteoporosis based on bone mineral density T-scores among women aged 50 to 64 years, researchers reported in a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Patients with osteoarthritis, but not immune-related arthritis, demonstrate increased odds for developing overactive bladder vs. those without, according to data spanning 15 years published in Science Reports.

Orthopedists, like all physicians, typically have tax reduction and long-term wealth accumulation at the top of their financial objectives.

A 2008 survey of hip injuries in the NFL introduced the “sports hip triad,” consisting of a hip labral tear, adductor injury and rectus abdominis injury.

The patient was a 73-year-old man with progressively disabling right hip pain for 2.5 years. The patient had failed nonsurgical approaches to this condition.

Commonly found among male athletes who participate in cutting and pivoting sports, such as soccer, football, basketball and hockey, groin injuries have been associated with a myriad of descriptions and causes of pain.

A 78-year-old man presented to clinic with long-standing left groin and thigh pain.

SAN DIEGO — A novel synthetic bone graft utilizing submicron-sized needle-shaped surface biphasic calcium phosphate may be superior to bone autograft for instrumented posterolateral spinal fusion, according to results presented here.