Learning from Hindsight: Examining Autonomic, Inflammatory, and Endocrine Stress Biomarkers and Mental Health in Healthy Terrorism Survivors Many Years Later.

Introduction: Terrorism and trauma survivors often experience changes in biomarkers of autonomic, inflammatory and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis assessed at various times. Research suggests interactions of these systems in chronic stress.

Study Objective: This unprecedented retrospective study explores long-term stress biomarkers in three systems in terrorism survivors.

Musculoskeletal tuberculosis revisited: bone and joint tuberculosis in Austria.

Background: To prevent further spread of the disease and secondary deformity, musculoskeletal tuberculosis (TB) remains a challenge in terms of early diagnosis and treatment. This study gives an overview on TB trends in Austria (pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB) (A) and analyses a retrospective series of musculoskeletal TB cases diagnosed and treated at an Austrian tertiary centre (B).

Methods: (A) We analysed data obtained from the Austrian national TB registry to provide information on TB patients´ demographics and manifestation sites between 1995 and 2019.

Increased injury severity and hospitalization rates following crashes with e-bikes versus conventional bicycles: an observational cohort study from a regional level II trauma center in Switzerland.

Background: As electric bicycles (e-bikes) become increasingly popular, reports of injuries associated with e-bike usage are also rising. Patterns, characteristics, and severity of injuries following e-bike crashes need further investigation, particularly in contrast to injuries from conventional bicycle crashes.

Methods: This prospective observational study included 82 patients treated at a Level II trauma center for injuries resulting from an electric or conventional bicycle crash.

Personality and Psychiatric Disorders among Employees of New York City Workplaces Affected by the 9/11 Attacks on the World Trade Center.

Objective: Personality is associated with psychopathology after disasters, but its association with the portion of postdisaster psychopathology that is incident remains unclear. It is also unclear whether any particular attributes of personality are associated with resistance to the persistence or recurrence of preexisting psychopathology after disasters. This exploratory study of employees of workplaces affected by the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City examined the specific relationships of personality variables (specifically, novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence, persistence, self-directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence) to incident postdisaster psychiatric disorders and resistance to the persistence/recurrence of preexisting psychiatric disorders after the disaster.

Fuzzy logic: about the origins of fast ion dynamics in crystalline solids.

Nuclear magnetic resonance offers a wide range of tools to analyse ionic jump processes in crystalline and amorphous solids. Both high-resolution and time-domain [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] NMR helps throw light on the origins of rapid self-diffusion in materials being relevant for energy storage. It is well accepted that [Formula: see text] ions are subjected to extremely slow exchange processes in compounds with strong site preferences.

Conductor-Insulator Interfaces in Solid Electrolytes: A Design Strategy to Enhance Li-Ion Dynamics in Nanoconfined LiBH/AlO.

Synthesizing Li-ion-conducting solid electrolytes with application-relevant properties for new energy storage devices is a challenging task that relies on a few design principles to tune ionic conductivity. When starting with originally poor ionic compounds, in many cases, a combination of several strategies, such as doping or substitution, is needed to achieve sufficiently high ionic conductivities. For nanostructured materials, the introduction of conductor-insulator interfacial regions represents another important design strategy.

Perioperative blood transfusions in hip and knee arthroplasty: a retrospective assessment of combined risk factors.

Introduction: Accurate identification of patients at risk of blood transfusion can reduce complications and improve institutional resource allocation. Probabilistic models are used to detect risk factors and formulate patient blood management strategies. Whether these predictors vary among institutions is unclear.

Li-Ion Diffusion in Nanoconfined LiBH-LiI/AlO: From 2D Bulk Transport to 3D Long-Range Interfacial Dynamics.

Solid electrolytes based on LiBH receive much attention because of their high ionic conductivity, electrochemical robustness, and low interfacial resistance against Li metal. The highly conductive hexagonal modification of LiBH can be stabilized via the incorporation of LiI. If the resulting LiBH-LiI is confined to the nanopores of an oxide, such as AlO, interface-engineered LiBH-LiI/AlO is obtained that revealed promising properties as a solid electrolyte.

Polyaxial locking plate fixation in periprosthetic, peri-implant and distal shaft fractures of the femur : a comparison of open and less invasive surgical approaches.

Polyaxial locking plate fixation is a widely performed treatment for femoral shaft, periprosthetic, and peri-implant fractures in elderly patients. This study's purpose was to compare patient outcomes following the open technique (OT) and less invasive techniques (LIT). Data were gathered from 44 patients with 46 fractures treated with polyaxial locking plate between 2010-2015.

A retrospective analysis of surgical outcomes following direct anterior hip arthroplasty with or without a surgical extension table.

Purpose: Using a surgical extension table during total hip arthroplasty (THA) is widely considered state-of-the-art. However, intra-operative leg positioning requires additional time and leg length determination can be challenging. Our study's aim was to compare patient outcomes, particularly leg length precision, following surgery with or without an extension table.

Satisfaction with justice and desire for revenge in survivors of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City's World Trade Center.

This study investigated gaps in existing knowledge on justice, desire for revenge, and associated factors in disaster research through data collected nearly three years post disaster on justice and revenge from survivors of the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks. A volunteer sample of 379 employees of eight affected businesses completed interviews and self-report questionnaires. Individual ratings on satisfaction with justice and desire for revenge were compared with demographic characteristics, disaster-related experience, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), disaster-related distress, anger, and concerns about danger and safety.

Redox processes in sodium vanadium phosphate cathodes - insights from operando magnetometry.

Operando magnetic susceptibility measurements of sodium ion cathode materials during repetitive electrochemical cycling enable a continuous and bulk sensitive monitoring of the transition metal oxidation states. Such measurements on NaxV2(PO4)3 identified vanadium to be the only ion undergoing oxidation/reduction processes upon battery operation. For the initial battery charging-discharging cycle as well as for the first cycle after prolonged room temperature storage, however, peculiarities within the magnetic susceptibility measurements indicate parasitic side reactions, likely on the cathode surface.

The traumatic acromion fracture: review of the literature, clinical examples and proposal of a treatment algorithm.

Purpose: Traumatic acromion fractures are rare and typically occur in patients with multiple fractures, which often delays diagnosis. Limited guidance exists on the treatment of these fractures. We present a review of the literature from the last 20 years and describe our experience in treating five patients-two conservatively and three with open reduction and internal fixations (ORIF).

One year after proximal or distal periprosthetic fracture of the femur -two conditions with divergent outcomes?

Introduction: Arthroplasty of the hip and knee is 1 of the 20 most frequent operations in Germany. Periprosthetic fracture is one of the most feared complications following primary or revision arthroplasty. Present publication aims to analyse differences between patients with periprosthetic fracture around total knee arthroplasty (PFTKA) and patients with periprosthetic fracture around total hip arthroplasty (PFTHA) concerning demographics, clinical course, complications and return to pre-fracture mobility.

Decision-making for complex scapula and ipsilateral clavicle fractures: a review.

Introduction: Complex scapula with ipsilateral clavicle fracures remains a challange and treatment recommendations are still missing.  This review provides an overview of the evolution of the definition, classification and treatment strategies for complex scapula and ipsilateral clavicle fractures. As with other rare conditions, consensus has not been reached on the most suitable management strategies to treat these patients.

Anatomical reconstruction to treat acromion fractures following reverse shoulder arthroplasty.

Purpose: Scapular fractures after reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA) are often associated with substantial shoulder impairment. Patient outcomes following either conservative or operative treatment have not been favourable, and consensus is lacking on the best treatment approach. We describe a technique for anatomic reconstruction of fractured lateral and basal acromion in patients at higher risk for diminished function or those for which conservative treatment has already failed.

Short- and long-term outcomes following hallux-valgus correction: a modified Kramer osteotomy.

Background: Short- and long-term assessments were performed of a modification to the Kramer osteotomy that developed to stabilize the metatarsal head using an angular implant, the LINK(®) internal hallux fixator (Waldemar LINK GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany).

Methods: For this retrospective study, radiological assessments were used to measure outcomes in 72 feet with hallux valgus treated from 2006 to 2011.

Management of periprosthetic acetabular fractures in elderly patients--a minimally invasive approach.

Purpose: Periprosthetic acetabular fractures are rare and in the current literature largely underreported. The management is reported to be difficult. Treatment varies from non-operative to open reduction and internal fixation up to revision of the acetabular components.

Two-Incision Minimally Invasive Approach for the Treatment of Anterior Column Acetabular Fractures.

Introduction: We describe an alternative to the Letournel ilioinguinal approach for anterior column acetabular fractures that is performed with a unique retraction device that decreases the rate of soft-tissue complications.

Step 1 Position The Patient And Identify The Sites For The Incisions: Identify the sites for both incisions with the help of an image intensifier.

Step 2 Make The First Incision To Expose The Anterior Column And The Linea Terminalis Pelvic Brim: Make the first incision to expose the central area of the fracture.

Mid-term results of a less-invasive locking plate fixation method for proximal humeral fractures: a prospective observational study.

Background: The optimal treatment for proximal humeral fractures remains under debate. In this article, we report the mid-term results of patients who underwent the less-invasive implantation of a polyaxial locking plate for displaced proximal humeral fractures.

Methods: This study included patients who were treated with a polyaxial locking plate via an anterolateral deltoid split approach from May 2008 to December 2011.

Distal femoral fractures in the elderly: biomechanical analysis of a polyaxial angle-stable locking plate versus a retrograde intramedullary nail in a human cadaveric bone model.

Introduction: Compromised bone quality and the need for early mobilization still lead to high rates of implant failure in geriatric patients with distal femoral fractures. With the newest generation of polyaxial locking plates and the proven retrograde femoral nails today two minimally invasive surgical procedures have been established. Indications for both procedures overlap.

Mono- versus polyaxial locking plates in distal femur fractures - a biomechanical comparison of the Non-Contact-Bridging- (NCB) and the PERILOC-plate.

Background: The aim of this cadaveric study was to compare a polyaxial (NCB®, Zimmer) to a fixed-angle monoaxial locking plate (PERILOC®, Smith & Nephew) in comminuted fractures of the distal femur regarding stability of the construct. Up to date there is no published biomechanical data concerning polyaxial plating in cadaveric distal femurs.

Methods: Fourteen formalin fixed femora were scanned by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry.