Rotator Cuff Repair Study Designs Correlate With Revision Shoulder Surgery Rates: A Systematic Review.

Purpose: To identify arthroscopic rotator cuff repair study groups and evaluate if study design or other study characteristics correlate with a repeat ipsilateral shoulder surgery.

Methods: A systematic search of the PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases was conducted on March 20, 2021, and April 2, 2021. The following search terms were used by 2 different researchers: ((Rotator cuff repair[Title/Abstract]) AND (Revision[Title/Abstract]) NOT (Systematic Review[Title/Abstract]) NOT (arthroplasty[Title/Abstract]).

Outcomes of Total Shoulder Arthroplasty With and Without Prior Rotator Cuff Repair: A Systematic Review.

Background: The effect of prior rotator cuff repair (RCR) on clinical outcomes after total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) is unclear.

Purpose: To systematically review the literature to compare the outcomes of TSA in patients with and without prior RCR.

Study Design: Systematic review; Level of evidence, 4.

Detectability and Volumetric Accuracy of Pulmonary Nodules in Low-Dose Photon-Counting Detector Computed Tomography: An Anthropomorphic Phantom Study.

The aim of this phantom study was to assess the detectability and volumetric accuracy of pulmonary nodules on photon-counting detector CT (PCD-CT) at different low-dose levels compared to conventional energy-integrating detector CT (EID-CT). In-house fabricated artificial nodules of different shapes (spherical, lobulated, spiculated), sizes (2.5-10 mm and 5-1222 mm), and densities (-330 HU and 100 HU) were randomly inserted into an anthropomorphic thorax phantom.

The Quality and Content of Internet-Based Information on Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Requires Improvement: A Systematic Review.

Purpose: To evaluate the quality and content of internet-based information available for some of the most common orthopaedic sports medicine terms.

Methods: A search of the PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane databases following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses) guidelines was performed. All English-language literature published from 2010 to 2020 discussing information quality pertaining to orthopaedic sports medicine terms was included.

Indications and Predictors for Reconstructive Surgery After Hand Burns.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to analyze the prevalence, indications, and type of reconstructive surgery and predictors of the outcomes of reconstructive surgery after hand burns.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted that included all patients admitted with acute hand burns in the Dutch burn centers from January 1998 through December 2002. The details of reconstruction including frequency, timing, indication, and techniques were collected over a 10-year follow-up period.

Functional outcome and quality of life 5 and 12.5 years after aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Patients who recover from aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) often remain disabled or have persisting symptoms with a reduced quality of life (QoL). We assessed functional outcome and QoL 5 and 12.5 years after SAH.

Minor physical anomalies in autism: a meta-analysis.

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder in which the interactions of genetic, epigenetic and environmental influences play a causal role. Despite the compelling evidence for a strong heritability, the etiology and molecular mechanisms underlying autism remain unclear. High phenotypic variability and genetic heterogeneity confounds the identification of susceptibility genes.

Antiplatelet therapy in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a systematic review.

Background And Purpose: Observational studies suggest that platelet inhibitors reduce the risk of delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and thereby have a beneficial effect on clinical outcome. Robust evidence, however, is lacking. We performed a systematic meta-analysis to determine whether antiplatelet therapy has a beneficial effect after SAH.

Changes in functional outcome and quality of life in patients and caregivers after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Object: Although the case-fatality rate after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) does not change considerably after the first 4 weeks, functional outcome and the quality of life (QOL) may. To assess the extent of changes in functional outcome and QOL after SAH, the authors conducted a follow-up study at 18 months in patients and caregivers who had participated in a previous study of QOL 4 months after SAH.

Methods: In a consecutive series of 98 patients admitted with SAH, 68 had survived until 4 months postbleed, at which time an initial outcome assessment had been performed in 64 of them.

Quality of life in patients with axonal polyneuropathy.

"Quality of life" (QOL) measurement reflects the impact of a disease on the daily life of a patient, and this can be used as an outcome measure in clinical trials. QOL measurements are rarely used in patients with neuromuscular disease. The aim of this study was to determine whether QOL is reduced in chronic polyneuropathy, whether there is a relationship between QOL and objective measures of disease severity, and whether measuring QOL is a useful addition to the assessment of severity of polyneuropathy.

Randomized pilot trial of postoperative aspirin in subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Objective: To assess the safety and feasibility of a clinical trial on the effectiveness of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) in subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).

Background: Several studies have indicated that increased platelet activity might be involved in the pathogenesis of delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) after SAH.

Method: Fifty patients who had early surgery (< or =4 days) for a ruptured aneurysm were enrolled in this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Initial loss of consciousness and risk of delayed cerebral ischemia after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Background And Purpose: Delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) is a major cause of death and disability in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. We studied the prognostic value for DCI of 2 factors: the duration of unconsciousness after the hemorrhage and the presence of risk factors for atherosclerosis.

Methods: In 125 consecutive patients admitted within 4 days after hemorrhage, we assessed the presence and duration of unconsciousness after the hemorrhage, the neurological condition on admission, the amount of subarachnoid blood, the size of the ventricles, and a history of smoking, hypertension, stroke, or myocardial infarction.

Transient amnesia after perimesencephalic haemorrhage: the role of enlarged temporal horns.

Objectives: Although long term outcome of patients with perimesencephalic haemorrhage, a benign subset of subarachnoid haemorrhage, is excellent, some patients report an episode of amnesia for the first hours to days after the ictus. The relation between the occurrence of amnesia and the size of the ventricles on CT, including the temporal horns, were studied in patients with perimesencephalic haemorrhage.

Methods: Twenty seven consecutive patients with perimesencephalic haemorrhage were asked about the occurrence of amnesia.

Quality of life in patients and partners after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Background And Purpose: Outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is often graded as "poor," "fair," or "good." Such categories are usually based on physicians' assessments of physical abilities of patients rather than on how patients themselves perceive their physical, psychological, and social well-being. We assessed functional outcome and quality of life (QoL) in patients with SAH and their partners.

The Frank Stinchfield Award. Contribution of cable debris generation to accelerated polyethylene wear.

The decision of the senior author of a large total hip replacement practice to switch from wire to braided cable for reattachment of the greater trochanter provided the opportunity to evaluate the long term effects (on acetabular component wear, osteolysis, and component loosening) caused by the introduction of metallic debris (generated by cable fretting and breakage) into the total hip arthroplasty construct. Seven hundred and nine consecutive primary total hip arthroplasties were performed during a 5-year period and followed up for a minimum of 10 years. Wire and cable reattachment of the greater trochanter was used sequentially.

Psychogenic pseudoptosis.

Three patients with psychogenic pseudoptosis of one eyelid are reported. All showed depression of the eyebrow on the affected side. The clinical course varied: in two patients the symptom resolved spontaneously after positive reassurance; in the third patient it remained unchanged for 2 years.

Quality of life after perimesencephalic haemorrhage.

Quality of life was measured by means of the sickness impact profile (SIP) questionnaire in a prospectively collected, consecutive series of 25 patients with perimesencephalic haemorrhage. A mean of two years and four months (range six months to six years) after the perimesencephalic haemorrhage, quality of life scores of the (former) patients were comparable with those of a random sample from the Dutch population. For physical aspects the patients showed even less dysfunction than controls.

Case-fatality rates and functional outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage: a systematic review.

Background: During the last three decades, new management strategies have been developed for patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. To assess whether the case-fatality rate has improved after the introduction of new management strategies, we studied outcome in all population-based studies from 1960 onward.

Summary Of Review: To identify population-based studies that reported on case-fatality rate in subarachnoid hemorrhage, we performed a MEDLINE search and checked all reference lists of the studies found.

[Attention in the medical curriculum for the sequelae of DES administration].

There is still a lack of knowledge among physicians with respect to epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and psychology of the former use of diethylstilboestrol (DES). A questionnaire was sent to 24 educational representatives of eight departments of general practice and 8 of gynaecology asking about the DES education programme in their departments. Response was 100%.

Thermal threshold testing for the assessment of small fibre dysfunction: normal values and reproducibility.

Small and large fibre neuropathy are common findings in patients with long-standing diabetes mellitus. The Thermal Threshold Tester was tested to obtain normal values for thermal perception threshold for warmth and cold. This device produces thermal stimuli by means of a Peltier element placed on the skin.