Psychological distress, personality traits and functional disability in patients with osteonecrosis of the femoral head.

Background: The aim of the present study was to investigate personality traits, psychological distress and functional disability in patients with non-traumatic osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH).

Methods: Sixty-seven patients participated in the study, 48 males and 19 females. The mean age was 37.

Munchausen syndrome: A differential diagnostic trap for hand surgeons.

A 24-year-old woman was referred with an extremely painful, stiff, swollen, and hypersensitive right upper extremity. She had history of four previous operations on the same extremity. The primary diagnosis was complex regional pain syndrome.

Women sleep objectively better than men and the sleep of young women is more resilient to external stressors: effects of age and menopause.

The aims of this study were to: (i) assess gender differences of objective sleep patterns in a general population sample; (ii) evaluate the effects of menopause and hormone treatment (HT) on the sleep of the same cohort; and (iii) examine gender differences in sleep resilience towards external stressors. The participants were (i) 1324 subjects without sleep complaints, recruited from the general population of Central Pennsylvania that spent one night in the sleep laboratory and (ii) 66 young, healthy volunteers whose sleep was disturbed during night four by an external stressor, i.e.