Impacted corticocancellous allografts and cement for femoral revision of total hip arthroplasty using Lubinus and Charnley prostheses.

Femoral revision of total hip arthroplasty using impacted morcellized allografts and a cemented Lubinus SP-II prosthesis (Waldemar Link GmbH & Co, Hamburg, Germany) or Charnley standard prosthesis (De Puy, Leeds, UK) was performed in patients with loss of bone stock grade II-IV according to the Endoclinic classification from first to eighth revision. We report the results from 57 hips in 56 patients, with a median of 64 months' follow-up. Modified Merle d'Aubigné-Postel postoperative scores increased significantly from preoperative to postoperative values for the Lubinus group and for the Charnley group.

Impacted corticocancellous allografts and cement for revision of the femur component in total hip arthroplasty.

Revision of the femur component in total hip arthroplasty using impacted morcellized bone allografts and cemented Lubinus SP-II prosthesis or Charnley standard prosthesis was performed in patients with loss of bone stock grade II through IV according to the Endo-Klinik classification from 1st to 8th revision. We report the results from 57 hips in 56 patients, with a median of 64 months' follow-up. Modified Merle d'Aubigne-Postel postoperative scores increased significantly from preoperative to postoperative values for the Lubinus group and for the Charnley group.

Successful treatment of adults with severe Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Objective: To describe our experience with the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a rescue therapy in adult patients with severe cardiopulmonary failure from Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

Design: Case series.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Cardiopulmonary manifestations of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics of a group of patients infected with the newly recognized hantavirus in the Southwestern United States.

Design: Case series.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome: clinical, diagnostic, and virologic aspects.

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is an acute pneumonitis with a high mortality rate that is caused by a newly recognized hantavirus. Four Corners virus (also known as Muerto Canyon virus and Sin Nombre virus) is enzootic among deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). Incidental transmission to humans can result in a disease characterized by rapidly progressive respiratory insufficiency, diffuse noncardiogenic pulmonary edema, vascular volume contraction with hemoconcentration, lactic acidosis, depressed cardiac output, and cardiac dysrhythmias preterminally.