Medial injuries of the clavicle: more prevalent than expected? A big data analysis of incidence, age, and gender distribution based on nationwide routine data.

Purpose: Although shoulder-girdle injuries occur frequently, injuries of the medial part remain widely unexplored. This study overviews these rare injuries with a focus on incidence, age, and sex distribution in Germany.

Methods: The data are based on diagnoses according to ICD-10 in all German hospitals provided by the German Federal Statistical Office.

Shoulder girdle injuries involving the medial clavicle differ from lateral clavicle injuries with a focus on concomitant injuries and management strategies: A retrospective study based on nationwide routine data.

Introduction: Although shoulder girdle injuries are frequent, those of the medial part are widely unexplored. Our aim is to improve the knowledge of this rare injury and its management in Germany by big data analysis.

Methods: The data are based on ICD-10 codes of all German hospitals as provided by the German Federal Statistical Office.

Injuries of the Sternoclavicular Joint - An Innovative Approach in the Management of a Rare Injury: Tight Rope Fixation of the Costo-Clavicular Ligament.

The costoclavicular ligament (CCL) provides the most tight stability within the sternoclavicular joint (SCJ), followed by the most cited sternoclavicular ligaments (SCL). Their disruption may cause severe instability of the SCJ. Different treatment options, such as the use of plates, wires or autologous tendons are associated with mainly limited functional outcome.

Injuries of the Medial Clavicle: A Cohort Analysis in a Level-I-Trauma-Center. Concomitant Injuries. Management. Classification.

Although shoulder girdle injuries are frequent, those of the medial clavicle are widely unexplored. An applied classification is less used just as a standard management. A retrospective analysis of medial clavicle injuries (MCI) during a 5-year-term in a Level-1-Trauma-Center.

Predictive Value of EuroSCORE II in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy.

Background Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are nowadays a widespread option for the effective treatment of heart failure. We hypothesized that the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II (EuroSCORE II) might be a superior tool in clinical decision making compared with other established score systems. Methods In this retrospective, single-center analysis, between 2008 and 2014, 40 consecutive patients were followed for up to 36 months after LVAD (Thoratec HeartMate II) implantation.

Special Treatment and Wound Care of the Driveline Exit Site after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation.

Objective: Despite good results following implantation of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), infections of the driveline and device pocket remain a major problem for patients on long-term support. We present the data from heart failure patients treated with a Thoratec HeartMate-II LVAD (Thoratec Corporation, Pleasanton, California, United States).

Methods: From January 2008 to April 2011, in our institution, 40 heart failure patients (NYHA IV) were supported with a HeartMate-II LVAD.

Selective reduction of afterload in right heart assist therapy: a mock loop study†.

Objectives: The treatment of right ventricular failure is closely linked to effects on pulmonary vascular resistance and thus the right ventricular (RV) afterload. Medical therapy includes afterload-decreasing drugs such as nitric oxide and prostacycline. However, current devices for mechanical unloading of the right ventricle aim at a decrease in preload increasing the pulmonary volume loading.