Rehabilitation of patients with war-related lower limb amputations.

Aim: To investigate the influence of factors: the amputation type and the time lag between last surgery and prosthetic rehabilitation, on the rehabilitation duration and outcome, in patients with war-related lower limb amputations.

Methods And Subjects: We reviewed the records of 101 war-related lower limb amputees who had inpatient rehabilitation at the National Ortho-Prosthetic Centre (NOPC) of Kosovo in Pristina, from July 1999 to June 2001, a retrospective observational study. Assessment of rehabilitation outcome-ambulation grade with prosthesis, is made on a 3-point scale.

Sequelae of neonatal septic arthritis of hip.

The aim of the study was evaluation of residual deformity after neonatal septic arthritis of the hip. The patient was operatively treated by intertrochanteric osteotomy of valgisation of 350 with anterotation of 10 degrees and extension 25 degrees at age of nine years because of leg length discrepancy, changes in the femoral neck, coxa vara, plana and breva. It was delay in diagnosis and failure to begin treatment promptly in the neonatal period.

Treatment of neonatal septic arthritis sequelae of hip: a case report.

Introduction: The most serious complication of the septic arthritis of the hip in childhood and especially in newborns is the avascular necrosis of the femoral head. The aim of the study was evaluation of residual deformity after neonatal septic arthritis of the hip in a boy aged thirteen years.

Case Presentation: A 13-year-old, white male, was operatively treated by intertrochanteric osteotomy of valgisation, anterotation and extension at age of twelve years because of leg length discrepancy, changes in the femoral neck, coxa vara, plana and breva.

Evaluation of trauma care using TRISS method: the role of adjusted misclassification rate and adjusted w-statistic.

Background: Major trauma is a leading cause of death worldwide. Evaluation of trauma care using Trauma Injury and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) method is focused in trauma outcome (deaths and survivors). For testing TRISS method TRISS misclassification rate is used.

Rehabilitation of children after elbow injuries.

Objectives: To review the efficiency of early physical therapy to achieve successful rehabilitation after elbow injuries in children.

Setting: Tertiary medical institution, Department of Physical Therapy, University Clinical Center of Kosovo, rr. Spitalit pn.