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  • Source: Health Day

    Using two or more pain control methods after hip and knee replacement surgery rather than opioid painkillers alone reduces risks to patients, a new study finds.

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  • Source: Medical Xpress

    As more patients undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA) before age 65, the rate of repeat hip surgery due to complications has risen sharply in this younger age group, reports a study in the March 21, 2018, issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

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  • Source: Medical Xpress

    Anne V. Gonzalez, M.D., from the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, and colleagues used data from Quebec health care databases to identify a cohort of patients with COPD from 1990 to 2005 who were followed until 2007 for the first hip or upper extremity fracture. Each fracture case was matched with 20 controls by age, sex, and follow-up time as part of a nested case-control analysis.

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  • Source: Healthline

    Hip replacement surgery has come a long way in the past couple of decades, with faster recovery times and lower risk of complications. It’s also become a lot more common, particularly for younger patients.

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  • Source: Healio

    Custom knee technology used with total knee arthroplasty may yield implants that closely reproduce the patient’s condylar anatomy and are associated with improved quality and reproducibile postoperative function, according to a presenter at the Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Winter Meeting.

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  • Source: Healio

    Results showed 0.64% of patients in the aspirin group and 0.7% in the rivaroxaban group experienced venous thromboembolism. Researchers also found major bleeding complications in 0.47% of patients in the aspirin group and in 0.29% of patients in the rivaroxaban group. According to results, 1.29% of patients in the aspirin group and 0.99% of patients in the rivaroxaban group had clinically important bleeding

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  • Source: Healio

    Results showed 0.64% of patients in the aspirin group and 0.7% in the rivaroxaban group experienced venous thromboembolism. Researchers also found major bleeding complications in 0.47% of patients in the aspirin group and in 0.29% of patients in the rivaroxaban group. According to results, 1.29% of patients in the aspirin group and 0.99% of patients in the rivaroxaban group had clinically important bleeding

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  • Source: Healio

    Greater length of stay, admission costs, long-term complications risks and inpatient facility discharge likelihood was found among patients who underwent total hip or knee arthroplasty with an off-label prosthesis, according to results.

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  • Source: RSNA

    Using a mobile MRI truck, researchers followed runners for 4,500 kilometers through Europe to study the physical limits and adaptation of athletes over a 64-day period, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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  • Source: Healio

    Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is a commonly performed orthopedic procedure with more than 100,000 reconstructions performed annually in the United States. Despite improved surgical techniques and rehabilitation protocols, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction failure rates range from 5% to 25%.

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