Publications by authors named "Sameer J Lodha"
Purpose: To survey the American Society for Surgery of the Hand membership to determine the nature and distribution of nerve injuries treated after elbow arthroscopy.
Methods: An online survey was sent to all members of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand under an institutional review board-approved protocol. Collected data included the number of nerve injuries observed over a 5-year period, the nature of treatment required for the injuries, and the outcomes observed after any intervention.
Background: Soft tissue defects after TKA are a potentially devastating complication. Medial gastrocnemius flaps occasionally are used to provide soft tissue coverage, most commonly with a periprosthetic joint infection.
Questions/purposes: We asked: (1) What were the rates of persistent or recurrent infection, implant survivorship, flap-related complications, and reoperation for patients who underwent medial gastrocnemius flap reconstruction for soft tissue coverage after TKA? (2) What were the Knee Society clinical and functional scores for patients who underwent medial gastrocnemius flap reconstruction for soft tissue defects after TKA? (3) What were the risk factors for failure of medial gastrocnemius flap reconstruction after TKA, with failure defined as recurrent or new periprosthetic joint infection or inability to reimplant the TKA prosthesis?
Methods: Between 2003 and 2011, four surgeons at one institution performed 31 medial gastrocnemius flaps for soft tissue coverage over an infected TKA.