Publications by authors named "David Sadoskas"
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- The study aimed to evaluate outcomes for patients with Charcot neuroarthropathy (CN), focusing on whether patients with Charcot-related foot wounds had lower limb salvage rates compared to those without wounds.
- A total of 245 patients (280 feet) were analyzed, revealing that 72.1% required surgery, with 10% of those surgically treated ultimately needing amputations.
- The findings showed that patients with Charcot-related foot wounds had a significantly higher amputation rate (21.3%) versus those without wounds (4.5%), indicating that wounds negatively impact limb salvage outcomes.
Background: Charcot neuroarthropathy (CN) of the ankle and hindfoot (Sanders/Frykberg Type IV) is challenging to treat surgically or nonsurgically. The deformities associated with ankle/hindfoot CN are often multiplanar, resulting in sagittal, frontal and rotational malalignment. In addition, shortening of the limb often occurs from collapse of the distal tibia, talus and calcaneus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Diabetes mellitus is one of the leading causes of hyperglycemia in the perioperative setting. Hyperglycemia has been shown to cause increased risk of surgical site infections (SSIs) in multiple surgical specialties, but to our knowledge it has not been investigated for orthopaedic foot and ankle surgery. The aim of this study was to determine if hyperglycemia increased the rate of SSI in elective, diabetic patients that required perioperative hospitalization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThin films of solid ammonia (NH(3) and ND(3)) have been characterized using low temperature (25-110 K) Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, and the three solid phase (amorphous, metastable, and crystalline) spectra are reported. This work has been motivated by confusion in the literature about the metastable and crystalline phases as a result of an early erroneous report by Staats and Morgan [(J. Chem.
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