First outcome results after total knee and hip replacement from the Lithuanian arthroplasty register.

Background And Objective: In 2010, the Lithuanian Association of Arhtroplasty was established and on January 1, 2011, initiated a national study of all reoperations after total knee (TKR) and total hip replacement (THR) in Lithuania. The aim of the study was to investigate the revision rates after TKR and THR at two years follow-up.

Materials And Methods: Lithuanian patients undergoing primary TKR and THR from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2012, were included in the study.

Femoral neck fractures in Lithuania and Sweden. The differences in care and outcome.

Purpose: Hip fractures constitute a serious and common health problem from both individual and public health perspectives. Unified data collection and comparison between countries is recognised as an effective tool for care improvements. However, the variation in patients' demography, treatment methods and other local cultural aspects in different countries should be considered.

Factors affecting health-related quality of life in patients after femoral neck fracture.

Quality of life in patients with femoral neck fracture is an issue frequently discussed in the literature. There is ongoing research on identifying factors that have an impact on quality of life in this particular group of patients. A great variety of factors affecting quality of life and lack of information on their importance encouraged us to perform a systematic literature review analyzing quality of life of patients who sustained femoral neck fracture.