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Cartilage
December 2024
Center for Foot and Ankle Surgery, Schön Klinik München Harlaching-FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Munich, Germany.
Objective: A gold standard surgical treatment for osteochondral lesions (OCLs) of the talus still needs to be established. Still, autologous matrix-induced chondrogenesis (AMIC) is a commonly applied 1-stage procedure that has achieved good short- and mid-term results. The present cohort study aimed to assess whether the long-term, 10-year results can confirm the previous findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Auton Res
June 2021
Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.
An expert committee was formed to reach consensus on the use of tilt table testing (TTT) in the diagnosis of disorders that may cause transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) and to outline when other provocative cardiovascular autonomic tests are needed. While TTT adds to history taking, it cannot be a substitute for it. An abnormal TTT result is most meaningful if the provoked event is recognised by patients or eyewitnesses as similar to spontaneous events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Aims: Duodenal-jejunal bypass liners (DJBLs) prevent absorption in the proximal small intestine, the site of fatty acid absorption. We sought to investigate the effects of a DJBL on blood concentrations of essential fatty acids (EFAs) and bioactive polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs).
Methods: Sub-study of a multicentre, randomised, controlled trial with two treatment groups.
EFORT Open Rev
August 2020
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, UK.
Surgical complications are more common in patients with complicated diabetes (presence of inner organ failure, neuropathy).Of all patients undergoing ankle fracture fixation, approximately 13% are diabetic and 2% have complicated diabetes mellitus.Non-operative management of ankle fractures in patients with complicated diabetes results in an even higher rate of complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe terminology 'Morton's neuroma' may represent a simplification of the clinical condition as the problem may not be a benign tumour of the nerve, but neuropathic foot pain associated with the interdigital nerve.Foot and ankle pathomechanics leading to metatarsalgia, clinical examination and differential diagnosis of the condition and imaging of the condition, for differential diagnosis, are discussed.Nonoperative management is recommended initially.
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