Clinical outcome of radiosynoviorthesis: a meta-analysis including 2190 treated joints.

A variety of indications for radiosynoviorthesis have been reported in literature, but the clinical outcome differs and depends on the primary disease and the pre-existing degenerative changes. This metaanalysis was carried out to establish groups for radiosynoviorthesis based on clinical outcome with respect to primary disease, clinical stage and the pre-existing degenerative changes. The literature search was carried out using the MEDLINE search term 'radionuclide synovectomy'.

Effects of cisatracurium on cerebral and cardiovascular hemodynamics in patients with severe brain injury.

Background: For neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care the use of drugs that do not increase or preferentially decrease intracranial pressure (ICP) or change cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) are preferred. The current study investigates the effects of a single rapid bolus dose of cisatracurium on cerebral blood flow velocity, ICP, CPP, mean arterial pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) in 24 mechanically ventilated patients with intracranial hypertension after severe brain trauma (Glasgow coma scale <6) under continuous sedation with sufentanil and midazolam.

Methods: Patients were randomly assigned to receive either 2xED95 (n=12) or 4xED95 (n=12) of cisatracurium as a rapid i.

AP-translation in the proximal disc adjacent to lumbar spine fusion. A retrospective comparison of mono- and polysegmental fusion in 120 patients.

120 consecutive patients with painful spondylolisthesis underwent combined anterior and posterior fusion. Patients were divided retrospectively into two groups. In group I, 46 patients were treated with monosegmental fusion.

The possibility of creating lordosis and correcting scoliosis simultaneously after partial disc removal. Balance lines of lumbar motion segments.

Study Design: The feasibility of correcting scoliosis and creating lordosis simultaneously in the thoracolumbar and lumbar spine by anterior instrumentation was investigated by in vitro testing.

Objectives: To evaluate the vertebral zones in which a compressive load applied in a motion segment creates side bending and lordosis in intact motion segments and after partial disc removal.

Summary Of Background Data: Most investigators have observed a kyphogenic effect of anterior scoliosis instrumentation and recommended dorsal placement of screws and the use of wedge grafts, although wedge grafts were not used routinely by all surgeons.

Removal of femoral sherman plates--not a simple operation.

Surgical removal of a Sherman plate from the femur in an adult treated in childhood for Perthes' disease or developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) can be time-consuming and difficult. We analyzed the factors that govern the complexity and complications of plate removal. The notes, operative details, and radiographs of 77 operations for removal of a Sherman plate inserted at the first femoral osteotomy for DDH were assessed.