Publications by authors named "Koji Noguchi"
Nonunion is a major complication of arthroscopic ankle arthrodesis. However, the characteristics and risk factors of nonunion are not well understood. This retrospective multicenter observational study aimed to clarify the characteristics of nonunion after arthroscopic ankle arthrodesis.
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- The study examined whether standardizing ankle stress sonography techniques would reduce measurement variability among different examiners.
- Fourteen examiners with an average of 8.7 years of ultrasound experience used their preferred methods on three patients, followed by a standardized technique developed in a consensus meeting.
- Results showed no significant difference in variability or measurement outcomes between the preferred and standardized techniques, indicating that standardization did not effectively reduce variability in ligament length measurements.
Objectives: This study evaluated the reliability and validity of the Forgotten Joint Score-12 (FJS-12)-a measure of patients' ability to forget their joints in daily life-in patients who underwent total ankle replacement (TAR) or ankle arthrodesis (AA).
Methods: Patients who underwent TAR or AA were recruited from seven hospitals. The patients completed the Japanese version of FJS-12 twice, at an interval of two weeks, at a minimum of one year postoperatively.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to clarify the prevalence of pain outside the foot, and to determine the associations of pain outside the foot with foot-specific quality of life (QOL) in patients with hallux valgus.
Methods: Patients scheduled to undergo hallux valgus surgery were recruited. Patients answered whether they experienced disabling pain in 13 body regions other than the foot.
Limited oxygen availability impairs normal body growth, although the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. In Drosophila, hypoxic responses in the larval fat body (FB) disturb the secretion of insulin-like peptides from the brain, inhibiting body growth. However, the cell-autonomous effects of hypoxia on the insulin-signaling pathway in larval FB have been underexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the usefulness of the false-pouch closure technique with an intact superior peroneal retinaculum (SPR).
Methods: From 2016 to 2020, 30 patients with recurrent dislocation of the peroneal tendon were treated with the current procedure. Clinical outcomes, including the time to resume running, the rate and time to return to sports, and the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) Ankle-Hind Foot score, were evaluated preoperatively and at the last follow-up.