Publications by authors named "Antonino Giulio Battaglia"
: The ultrasound-guided viscosupplementation of the hip joint with hyaluronic acid (HA) is considered a standard procedure among the conservative treatments for hip arthritis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical benefit and the incidence of adverse events of the technique in an observational study at one year follow up. We evaluated a consecutive series of 85 patients with a diagnosis of symptomatic arthritis who underwent intra-articular ultrasound-guided hyaluronic acid injections.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We evaluated the reliability of intraoperative assessment of leukocyte esterase (LE) in synovial fluid samples from patients undergoing reimplantation following implant removal and spacer insertion for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Our hypothesis was that a positive intraoperative LE test would be a better predictor of persistent infection than either serum C-reactive protein (CRP) or erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) or the combination of serum CRP and ESR.
Methods: The records of 76 patients who received a 2-stage exchange for PJI were retrospectively reviewed.
Bone morphology and morphometry of the lateral femoral condyle is a risk factor for ACL injury.
Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc
September 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the knee lateral compartment bony morphology and morphometry on risk of sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury.
Methods: A total of 400 age and sex-matched patients (200 ACL-ruptured and 200 ACL-intact) were included. The lateral femoral and tibial bone morphology and morphometric parameters were measured on knee lateral radiographs, taken at 30° of knee flexion with overlapping of the femoral condyles.