Arthroscopic Transtendinous Double-Pulley Remplissage Technique in the Beach-Chair Position for Large Hill-Sachs Lesions.

Hill-Sachs lesions are a common finding in patients with glenohumeral instability. There have been numerous methods described for addressing Hill-Sachs deformity. One popular method includes transferring a portion of the infraspinatus muscle into the posterior-superior defect (remplissage) to prevent the lesion from engaging and the resultant instability.

A comparison of cell salvage strategies in posterior spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

Study Design: Retrospective case-control study.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of 3 blood management strategies in patients undergoing posterior spinal fusion (PSF) for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) in reducing donor blood transfusion.

Summary Of Background Data: Although intraoperative cell salvage and predonated banked blood may be effective in reducing donor blood transfusion in the perioperative period, the optimal blood management strategy is unclear.

Patient factors, comorbidities, and surgical characteristics that increase mortality and complication risk after spinal arthrodesis: a prognostic study based on 5,887 patients.

Background Context: The impact of patient factors and medical comorbidities on the risk of mortality and complications after spinal arthrodesis has not been well described. Prior works have been limited by small sample size, single center data, or the inability to be broadly generalized.

Purpose: To determine if there is an association between the patient demographic factors, comorbidities, nutritional status, and surgical characteristics and the occurrence of mortality and complications after spinal arthrodesis.

Publication rate of presentations at an annual military orthopaedic meeting.

Many research abstracts presented at orthopaedic conferences do not undergo a formal editorial, or peer-review process; however, abstracts are frequently referenced in textbooks and influence clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to determine the publication rate of abstracts formally presented at the Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons (SOMOS) annual meetings from 1998 to 2006 that went to full-text publication. Using Google Scholar and PubMed, a literature search was performed for each abstract presented at the annual SOMOS meeting in the years 1998-2006, to calculate the overall full-text publication rate, the average duration from presentation to publication, and the distribution of publications in the various journals.