• Filter By:
• Specialty
• Source
• Condition
• Cancer
• Infectious Disease
• Drug
• Training
• Management
• Procedure
• Therapy
• Vaccine
• Nutrition
• Country

Child-Pugh Class B or C Liver Disease Increases the Risk of Early Mortality in Patients With Hepatitis C Undergoing Elective Total Joint Arthroplasty Regardless of Treatment Status
CONCLUSION: Patients with HCV and a Child-Pugh Class B or C at the time of elective TJA had substantially increased odds of death, regardless of liver function, cirrhosis, age, Model for End-Stage Liver Disease level, HCV treatment, and viral load status. This is similar to the risk of early mortality observed in patients with chronic liver disease undergoing abdominal and cardiac surgery. Surgeons should avoid these major elective procedures in patients with Child-Pugh Class B or C whenever possible. For patients who feel their arthritic symptoms and pain are unbearable, surgeons need to be clear that the risk of death is...
Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - March 24, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Kyle H Cichos Eric Jordan Kian Niknam Antonia F Chen Erik N Hansen Gerald McGwin Elie S Ghanem Source Type: research

Contralateral limb foot rotation during unilateral toe-in or toe-out walking in people with knee osteoarthritis
Gait modification is an important component of rehabilitation for a number of pathologies such as stroke, patellofemoral pain syndrome, and knee osteoarthritis (KOA) [1 –3]. These modifications are typically applied to a single limb [4,5]. Some transfer of modified motor patterning to the untrained (i.e. contralateral) limb has been found following unilateral training during tasks such as obstacle avoidance or slip testing [6–8]. However, little is known regard ing the movement patterns of the contralateral limb during the actual training of the target limb.
Source: Gait and Posture - March 6, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Jesse M. Charlton, Natasha M. Krowchuk, Gillian L. Hatfield, Jordan A. Guenette, Michael A. Hunt Tags: Short communication Source Type: research