Pediatrics News

We are all called to make innumerable decisions every day, especially in surgery. Trouble is, many of us decide courses of actions in haste or amidst fear, fatigue or brain fog.

Results showed patients aged 8 to 11 years, known as “tweeners,” undergoing posterior spinal fusion had a more cephalad lowest instrumented vertebrae selections compared with those who received magnetically controlled growing rods.

G. Dean MacEwen, MD, former medical director of the Alfred I. duPont Institute, died on Aug. 6 at the age of 96 years.

In young male American football players, concussion symptoms and severity were higher for those who sustained the injury on natural grass compared with artificial turf, according to new research in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine.

DENVER — Although patients aged 21 years or younger may experience a high risk for early failure after primary ACL repair, these patients may have no subsequent reinjuries at a minimum 5-year follow-up, according to presented results.

Published results showed recurrent patellar dislocations were associated with increased incidence and severity of trochlear chondral damage but not patellar chondral damage.

Results showed a novel posterior column osteotomy technique may be effective in improving deformity correction in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis undergoing posterior spinal fusion.

Results showed a single-stage treatment involving femoral shortening, peroneal nerve decompression and posterior knee release may improve knee mechanics and ambulatory ability for pediatric patients with arthrogrypotic knee deformities.

In this video, Aaron J. Huser, DO, discusses a study that showed tibial-fibular synostosis may prevent recurrent dynamic valgus of the ankle in patients with fibular hemimelia.