Job satisfaction, Career Burnout, and Work-Related Well-Being Prevalence among Orthopedic Surgeons: A Nationwide Study.

Background: Burnout is a well-known consequence of chronic stress. Orthopedic surgery is among the most desired specialty among Iranian medical students. The nature of the job, the income, and the ability to deal with stress can all be stressful factors for orthopedic surgeons.

Wound dehiscence after total knee arthroplasty.

Introduction: Wound dehiscence is one of the most common complications of surgical ulcer, involving the breaking open of the surgical incision along the stitch. This condition is a severe complication of total knee arthroplasty.

Presentation Of Case: We report a case of a 59-year-old female patient with diabetes who underwent a total knee arthroplasty in which all layers of wounds were dehiscence and prosthetic was exposed.

Loosening of Total Knee Arthroplasty after Brucellosis Infection: A Case Report.

In this report we describe a 78-year-old man whose total knee arthroplasty showed the symptoms of infection with brucella with radiographic signs of loosening 5 years after the index surgery. The patient was treated successfully after a 2-stage revision arthroplasty surgery along with using rifampicin and doxycycline for 8 weeks.

Iranian Joint Registry (Iranian National Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Registry).

Periodic evaluation and monitoring the health and economic outcome of joint replacement surgery is a common and popular process under the territory of joint registries in many countries. In this article we introduce the methodology used for the foundation of the National Iranian Joint Registry (IJR) with a joint collaboration of the Social Security Organization (SSO) and academic research departments considering the requirements of the Iran's Ministry of Health and Education.