Arthritis News

A pair of research initiatives for arthritis and osteoarthritis are receiving tens of millions of dollars from the U.S. government.

Published results showed patients with a higher BMI had no differences in rates of dislocation or revision at 1 year to 2 years after primary total hip arthroplasty compared with patients with a normal BMI.

According to published results, use of a predictive tool may not significantly affect patient-reported willingness to undergo total knee arthroplasty at 6 months after use of the tool.

Ankle distraction arthroplasty is a mechano-biological treatment for osteoarthritis of the ankle that serves as an alternative to ankle arthrodesis and prosthetic arthroplasty, or total ankle replacement.

Osteochondral defects of the knee articular cartilage are injuries frequently seen in orthopedics and sports medicine.

Weather changes are not risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis or knee, hip or low back pain, but do appear to influence gout flares, according to a meta-analysis published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

SAN FRANCISCO — Results showed patients older than 65 years with acetabular fractures had a higher rate of complications and readmissions after total hip arthroplasty compared with those who had femoral neck fractures.

There is much written about the virtue of compassion, which literally means “to suffer together.” A more practical definition would be sympathetic awareness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.

SAN FRANCISCO — Results presented here showed Lapidus bone-block fusion had a high nonunion rate despite restoring many markers associated with foot collapse and alignment.

SAN FRANCISCO — Patients younger than 55 years who underwent total ankle arthroplasty had higher complication rates and rates of implant failure compared with patients older than 55 years, according to results presented here.