Updates on Biomaterials Used in Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA).

One of the most popular and effective orthopedic surgical interventions for treating a variety of hip diseases is total hip arthroplasty. Despite being a radical procedure that involves replacing bone and cartilaginous surfaces with biomaterials, it produces excellent outcomes that significantly increase the patient's quality of life. Patient factors and surgical technique, as well as biomaterials, play a role in prosthetic survival, with aseptic loosening (one of the most common causes of total hip arthroplasty failure) being linked to the quality of biomaterials utilized.

[Disability assessment tools in psoriatic arthritis: VICON gait].

Aim: To evaluate health-related quality of life and disability in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and to perform a complex biomechanical gait analysis in patients with PsA versus healthy controls.

Material And Methods: Preliminary prospective study on 33 consecutive PsA (2006 CASPAR criteria), with active multiple joint involvement disease. Assessments were done according to a predefined protocol and included: rheumatology-clinical evaluation and activity scores, dermatology- Psoriasis Area and Severity Index, PASI-score; functional disability- Health Assessment Questionnaire, HAQ, quality of life score- Short Form36, SF36; biomechanical gait analysis- tridimensional VICON MX optical motion capture system in PsA versus 33 age- and sex-matched healthy controls.

[Observational study of a sample of patients with gonarthrosis, treated at the Hospital Clinic of Rehabilitation in Iaşi].

Unlabelled: The aim of our descriptive study was to assess a sample of patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Material And Methods: A sample of 295 patients was assessed regarding demographical features, comorbidities, some laboratory investigations and therapeutically interventions.

Results: The predominance of females (81.

[Descriptive assessments of a series of rheumatoid arthritis patients admitted to rehabilitation treatment between 2008 and 2010].

Aim: To assess some demographic features in a series of 741 rheumatoid arthritis patients admitted to the Clinic Hospital of Rehabilitation at Iasi in different stages of disease in order to select the most adequate rehabilitation teratment.

Material And Methods: Data were collected from patients' records, hospital statistical reports, and then processed and interpreted using EPI/INFO and MS Excel.

Results: Sex distribution revealed that the disease was more common in females (male/female ratio 0.