Femur

A 54-year-old man with a past medical history of type 1 diabetes mellitus, heart failure and renal transplant presented to the ED after having a mechanical fall resulting in pain, deformity to the right knee and inability to weight-bear.

KOLOA, Hawaii — With intraoperative femur fractures on the rise, surgeons should aim to prevent these fractures from occurring by identifying high-risk patients and surgical risk factors, according to a presenter here.

A healthy 36-year-old man presented to the ED with a 2-week history of draining wounds from the right thigh.

Stability plays a key role in primary total knee arthroplasty for patients and affects their overall satisfaction, making it an important consideration for orthopedic surgeons during planning and execution of the procedure.

Risk for atypical femur fractures with bisphosphonate therapy, while rare, was strongly associated with duration of use beyond about 5 years and was quickly and dramatically reduced after discontinuing, study data show.

Use of NSAIDs increased nonunion rates in patients with operative fixation of humeral shaft, tibial shaft and subtrochanteric femur fractures, according to published results.

KOLOA, Hawaii — At Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Cory A. Collinge, MD, spoke about periprosthetic fractures of the distal femur. He said it is critical to ensure the total knee implant is stable for patients with periprosthetic fractures.

According to study results, the MRI oblique trochlear view accurately evaluates trochlear morphology and better characterizes trochlear dysplasia in patients with patellofemoral instability compared with the standard MRI axial sequences.

Conformis Inc. announced it received FDA clearance for its next-generation Conformis Hip System, according to a press release.

DENVER —At the Orthopaedic Trauma Association Annual Meeting, Lisa K. Cannada, MD, spoke about early weight-bearing after distal femur fractures in elderly patients. She said early weight-bearing can be tolerated by elderly patients.