Orthopaedics Today Europe Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Orthopaedics Today Europe.

Table of Contents

• Mesenchymal stem cells yield promising results, multiple orthopaedic applications
• ACL surgery techniques yield similar knee stability results in middle-aged patients
• Advanced Course in Total Hip and Knee Replacement — a full-day course during the 14th EFORT Congress in Istanbul
• OTE200: Cement with antibiotics
• EFORT FOUNDATION Visiting Fellowship programme 2013 — now open for application
• EFORT Trauma Task Force — program of online multinational trauma surveys
• Fewer implants fail with dynamic fixation vs screws for syndesmosis rupture
• Get involved - Interactive session formats
• Global meeting of orthopaedic research societies in Venice aims to establish worldwide research and exchange networks
• Investigators see comparable results with conventional and navigated TKA
• Many highlights, many registrations
• Nurse Session at the 14th EFORT Congress Istanbul
• Primary arthroscopic Bankart repair with remplissage shows low failure rate
• Researchers get stem cells to differentiate into NP cells with hydrogel carrier
• TKA and HTO navigation protocols yield different limb alignment outcomes
• Young women with AIS encounter sexual problems after corrective surgery
• Surgical site infection remains an unsolved issue in orthopaedic surgery Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen, MD
• Fluoroscopy aids pedicle screw placement in spinal fracture treatment
• Modifying patient factors can lower post-ankle fracture infection risk
• Patients with progressive hand OA also at risk for knee OA progression
• Bonesupport receives CE mark for injectable ceramic bone substitute
• Regentis Biomaterials receives CE mark for implant for traumatic knee injury
• Longer survivorship seen with HTO vs. UKA, TKA in younger patients with medial OA
• More cups likely to be in safe zone with transverse acetabular ligament as a THA landmark
• Patients quickly resumed sports, had good clinical outcomes with nonsurgical PCL injury treatment
• Study: No ‘safe’ blood metal ion level helps to predict function in MoM hips
• Study suggests TKA is reasonable in selected obese patients
• Surgeons hopeful reliable solutions will emerge soon for THA dislocation