The effect of one week of treatment with naproxen on the formation of heterotopic ossification after cemented total hip arthroplasty was studied in a prospective trial. Twenty-seven patients received 500 mg naproxen twice daily for seven days postoperatively. The medication was started on the morning of the operation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Orthop Relat Res
May 1995
The effect of 1 week of treatment with naproxen on the formation of heterotopic ossification after cemented total hip arthroplasty was studied in a prospective trial. Twenty-seven patients received 500 mg naproxen twice daily for 7 days postoperatively. The medication was started on the morning of the operation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne hundred and ninety-one patients were interviewed before and after surgery about their attitude toward and the quality of received pain relief. The nurses working in the same surgical units answered a questionnaire covering attitudes to postoperative pain and pain treatment. Forty-seven percent of the patients were in pain at the time of the postsurgical interview, 10% had not any analgesic prescribed at all, and 15% had received less than prescribed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCollagen turnover after tibial fractures was examined in 16 patients with fracture of the tibial diaphysis and in 8 patients with fracture in the tibial condyle area by measuring sequential changes in serological markers of turnover of types I and III collagen for up to 26 weeks after fracture. The markers were the carboxy-terminal extension peptide of type I procollagen (PICP), the amino-terminal extension peptide of type III procollagen (PIIINP), and the pyridinoline cross-linked carboxy-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen (ICTP). The latter is a new serum marker of degradation of type I collagen.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this study was to examine acupuncture treatment of patients with osteoarthrosis of the knee. Twenty-nine patients with a total of 42 osteoarthritic knees were randomized to two groups. Group A was treated while group B served as a no treatment control group for nine weeks.
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