Objectives: Hyaluronic acid (HA) is used for intraarticular treatment of hip osteoarthritis (OA). The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of intraarticular injection of HA through a lateral approach under fluoroscopic control for advanced hip OA.
Methods: The study included 21 patients with advanced hip OA.
Postoperative pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is an ongoing problem. To relieve this pain, practitioners have used many anesthetic and analgesic drugs. This study was undertaken to assess the effects of incisional and intraperitoneal administration of ropivacaine on postoperative pain and stress response in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn our study we aimed to reduce postoperative morphine consumption, prevent adverse effects of morphine, and improve analgesic quality via adding analgesic doses of ketamine infusion to intravenous morphine-patient controlled analgesia (PCA). After local ethics committee approval, 45 patients scheduled for total abdominal hysterectomy were included in the study. In the postoperative period the patients were separated into two groups randomly.
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