EFORT Annual Congress

According to Finnish researchers, although the overall incidence of osteotomies has declined during the past 2 decades, the incidence among women has declined and surgeons are performing more osteotomies in patients younger than 50 years old than in the general population.

Long-term survivorship was increased in patients with post-radiation sarcoma if they had bone sarcoma or underwent surgery combined with chemotherapy, according to researchers at Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna.

MANCHESTER — Researchers from the United Kingdom have reported positive results for a short stay hip program, which educates and then discharges patients within 2 days after an uncemented total hip arthroplasty procedure, according to a presentation here.

MANCHESTER – Researchers from the United Kingdom have found good outcomes and low complication rates for single-stage sequential bilateral unicompartmental knee replacements, according to a study presented here.

MANCHESTER – A rotating platform high flexion prosthesis showed increased flexion than the standard knee posthesis in a comparison study presented at the British Orthopaedic Association Congress 2012, here.

MANCHESTER – Patients with single joint knee osteoarthritis had abnormal gait with a higher adduction moment compared to age-matched controls in a recent gait analysis study presented here.

MANCHESTER — Although total hip and total knee arthroplasty cases have increased during the past decade, researchers from the United Kingdom said this increase is not because of a change in functional scores measured preoperatively.

MANCHESTER — Bursal inflammation has been thought to be related to trochanteric bursitis. However, in an award-wining study presented at the British Orthopaedic Association Congress here, researchers found no acute or chronic inflammation of the trochanteric bursa in patients with a positive diagnosis of trochanteric bursitis.

MANCHESTER — Results of a small, randomized controlled pilot study that involved mechanobiologic and clinical assessments showed that platelet-rich plasma improved healing in acute Achilles tendon tears that were either percutaneously sutured or nonoperatively treated.

MANCHESTER — A new surgical technique to fix unstable ankle fractures was associated with a 100% union rate and one postoperative infection, according to a presenter at the British Orthopaedic Association Congress 2012, here.