Health-related quality of life (Nottingham Health Profile) in knee osteoarthritis: correlation with clinical variables and self-reported disability.

The aims of this study were to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) using the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) and to determine its relationships with conventional clinical measures and self-reported disability. One hundred and forty patients with knee OA (104 female, 36 male, mean age 59.39 ± 7.

Very early onset steroid-induced avascular necrosis of the hip and knee in a patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

Avascular necrosis (AVN) is a devastating adverse effect of steroid therapy rarely reported in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). We describe a 64-year-old woman with progressive left knee and hip pain for 30 days resulting with the inability to ambulate. After she had been diagnosed ITP pulse steroid treatment was started in the department of Hematology.