Background: Normal Constant score values for healthy shoulders can vary between regions and change over the years as life expectancy increases and physical condition improves. Spain's population is one of the healthiest and has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, which could be reflected in its normal Constant score values. The purpose of this study is finding the normal Constant score values in the Spanish population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: Proximal humerus fractures (PHFs) are among the most common fractures in elderly patients, yet there is insufficient evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to determine the most appropriate interventions for their management. This study presents the long-term results of the first prospective RCT comparing surgical treatment with reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA) versus nonoperative treatment in displaced PHFs in elderly patients.
Materials And Methods: Patients from a previously published RCT of 62 patients, in which RSA was compared with nonoperative treatment, were followed up long term.
Case: We report the case of a previously healthy 51-year-old man who presented to our hospital after worsening clinical appearance of his left ring finger, despite antibiotics and previous surgical drainage for suspected abscess at an outside institution 3 weeks ago. He was admitted to our hospital for surgical debridement and decompression. After suspicion of cutaneous loxoscelism based on the clinical record and corticosteroid administration, the patient presented a favorable evolution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS) is a common hip pathology that causes pain and functional limitation in young patients. subspine femoroacetabular impingement (SFAI) is an increasingly diagnosed extra-articular subtype that occurs from mechanical conflict of the anteroinferior iliac spine (AIIS) with the cervico-diaphyseal junction during hip flexion, which is poorly described in the literature.
Questions/purposes: We aimed to describe the clinical, functional, and radiological results of the arthroscopic treatment of a group of patients with SFAI treated in our Hip Unit.
Background: We compared the clinical and radiological outcomes and complications of patients treated for thoracolumbar burst fractures via temporary percutaneous osteosynthesis or open definitive arthrodesis.
Methods: A retrospective case-control study was performed including patients treated between 2017 and 2019 for a burst fracture of the thoracolumbar junction, either with percutaneous osteosynthesis (case group) or open arthrodesis (control group). Clinical, functional, and radiographic results were analyzed and compared between treatment groups.
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