Background: The objective of this study was to compare clinical and radiological outcomes of total hip arthroplasty (THA) between ankylosing spondylitis (AS) of the hip joint and avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head.
Methods: Thirty patients (30 hips) underwent cementless THA for AS between 2003 and 2012. They were compared to 30 patients (30 hips) who underwent the same procedure for AVN of the femoral head.
Femoral neck stress fracture occured commonly in athlete and military recruit populations, some of them are bilateral. Bilateral femoral neck stress fracture that associated with other occupation is very uncommon. We report a bilateral femoral neck stress fracture case that presented with unilateral symptoms in a male shipman laborer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Present helpful measures to prevent expected complications that occur in patients with liver cirrhosis undergoing arthroplasty.
Methods: 218 patients who underwent hip or knee arthroplasty were included in this study. Prognoses of patients with underlying disease of liver cirrhosis and those without are compared with measures.
Background: In this study, we tried to assess if combined method (intravenous [IV] and topical) of tranexamic acid (TXA) administration, which has been shown to be superior in conventional arthroplasty, has similar effect in navigational arthroplasty compared to administration of drug either individually.
Methods: In present randomized control trial, 200 patients were randomly divided in one of the 4 groups using computer-generated tables-control, IV, intraarticular, and combined. We studied evident loss through drain, total loss based on Gross method and hemoglobin balance method, hidden losses, hemoglobin and hematocrit drop, functional scores, and all possible complications related to TXA.
Purpose: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) accompanies the risk of bleeding and need for transfusion. There are several methods to reduce postoperative blood loss and blood transfusion. One such method is using tranexamic acid during TKA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatient-specific instrumentation (PSI) was developed to improve the accuracy of component positioning through custom cutting blocks constructed based on preoperative 3-dimensional imaging in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical and radiological outcomes between the patients who underwent PSI-assisted TKA or conventional TKA. Sixty-four patients (64 knees) underwent TKA by a single surgeon: 32 patients (32 knees) underwent TKA with PSI, 32 patients (32 knees) underwent TKA with conventional instrumentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Tibial tuberosity-trochlear groove (TT-TG) distance is important in the assessment and treatment of patellofemoral disorders. However, normal and pathological TT-TG values have not been established in Koreans. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the TT-TG distance in the Korean population using lower leg rotational profile computed tomography (CT) scans.
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