Surgical Decompression of Exertional Compartment Syndrome of the Forearm in Professional Motorcycling Racers: Comparative Long-term Results of Wide-Open Versus Mini-Open Fasciotomy.

Objective: To compare the long-term results of 2 surgical techniques for forearm chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) in professional motorcycling racers and to study a new diagnostic variable for CECS, TRest.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Level Of Evidence: 4.

Percutaneous interface biopsy in dry-aspiration cases of chronic periprosthetic joint infections: a technique for preoperative isolation of the infecting organism.

Purpose: Preoperative identification of the infecting micro-organism is of paramount importance in the treatment protocol for chronic periprosthetic joint infections, as it enables selection of the most appropriate antibiotic treatment. Preoperative joint aspiration, the most commonly used sampling technique, has proven to have a broad range of sensitivity values and the frequency of dry aspirations has not been well assessed. In such dry-tap cases a biopsy sample could be an option.

Interspecies spread of CTX-M-32 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase and the role of the insertion sequence IS1 in down-regulating bla CTX-M gene expression.

Objectives: To characterize the extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) as well as their genetic environment in different isolates of Enterobacteriaceae from a patient with repeated urinary tract infections.

Methods: Two isolates of Escherichia coli and one Proteus mirabilis, all with ESBL phenotypes, were studied. Conjugation experiments and restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were performed.

[Efficacy of two semiautomatic methods for bacteriuria detection].

Background: A quick and reliable method for detecting bacteriuria would allow to exclude the presence of microorganisms in the urine on the same day the sample is obtained.Objectives. Two semiautomatic methods have been evaluated for bacteriuria screening, taking the semiquantitative culture as reference method.