Physical and mental demand during direct anterior total hip arthroplasty: Comparison of robotic-assisted and conventional techniques.

Introduction: The adoption of new techniques, such as the direct anterior (DA) approach, and technologies, such as robotic assistance, in total hip arthroplasty (THA) has the potential to alleviate the intraoperative physical and mental demand that surgeons experience. Therefore, the aim of this study is to compare the physical and mental demand of surgeons performing conventional DA THA with fluoroscopy and robotic-assisted DA THA without fluoroscopy.

Methods: Two orthopaedic surgeons completed bilateral DA THA's on six cadaveric specimens.

Lipophilic index of serum phospholipids in patients with type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: links with metabolic control, vascular inflammation and platelet activation.

Background: Little is known about the mechanisms underlying the association of the serum phospholipid lipophilic index (LI) with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Therefore, we investigated whether the LI is associated with glucometabolic control, meta-inflammation, thrombin generation, fibrin clot properties, endothelial function and platelet activation in T2D patients with angiographically documented ASCVD.

Methods: We studied 74 T2D patients with ASCVD, aged 65.