Kiteboarding Injuries: Epidemiology, Common Treatment Strategies, and Time to Return to Kiteboarding Following Injury.

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence and types of injuries incurred during kiteboarding (1), along with treatment approaches (2). In addition, the time to return to kiteboarding following injury (3) and factors associated with the rate and type of injury were analyzed (4).

Setting: Recreational kiteboarding.

Testing a new method of osteosynthesis of forearm fractures in children; a prospective randomized controlled longitudinal study.

Purpose: Displaced children's forearms fractures are commonly treated surgically with Kirschner Wires or Elastic Stable Intramedullary Nails. The osteosynthesis system "Minimally Invasive Reduction and Osteosynthesis System" might be beneficial in the treatment of these fractures due to being minimally invasive while achieving fracture stability. In this exploratory prospective randomized controlled longitudinal study, we compared Minimally Invasive Reduction and Osteosynthesis System to Kirschner Wires and Elastic Stable Intramedullary Nails osteosynthesis.

Acrometastasis as the first sign of an occult non-small cell carcinoma of lung.

This case study reports a rare case of acrometastasis to the right middle finger middle phalanx as the first sign of an occult non-small cell carcinoma of the lung.

Ischemic proctosigmoiditis due to retroperitoneal hematoma.

Gastrointestinal ischemia is caused by ischemic colitis in 50-60% of cases and is associated with high morbidity and mortality among patients. Ischemic proctosigmoiditis is a very rare disorder with only few cases reported. Due to collateral blood supply the rectum is only affected in 2-5% of all cases of ischemic colitis.

A Systematic Review on Effect of Single-Dose Preoperative Antibiotics at Surgical Osteotomy Extraction of Lower Third Molars.

Purpose: We conducted a systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the effectiveness of a single dose of preoperative antibiotic administered perorally, intravenously, intramuscularly, or topically for preventing infection and alveolar osteitis in lower third molar surgical extraction applying osteotomy.

Materials And Methods: The Medline, Cochrane Library, and Embase databases were searched for RCTs until August 2015. The primary outcome measure was postoperative inflammatory reactions, with a subgroup analysis of surgical site infection (SSI) and alveolar osteitis.

The effects of diet- and RYGB-induced weight loss on insulin sensitivity in obese patients with and without type 2 diabetes.

Aims: The impact of diet-induced weight loss and weight loss due to RYGB in patients with (T2DM, N = 16) and without (OB, N = 27) type 2 diabetes was studied.

Methods: At inclusion (A), after diet-induced weight loss (B), 4 months post-surgery (C) and 18 months post-surgery (D) body composition, hepatic glucose production (HGP), insulin-mediated glucose uptake (GIR), respiratory exchange ratio, hepatic insulin sensitivity and clearance were determined. GLUT4, intramuscular triglycerides (IMTG) and glycogen content were measured in skeletal muscle.

Opioids in hip fracture patients: an analysis of mortality and post hospital opioid use.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the use of opioids among hip fracture patients, and the potential relation between perioperative prescription of opioids, mortality and chronic opioid use. The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of opioids among hip fracture patients postoperatively and 90- and 180 days after discharge. The study also analysed predictors of early death at 30-, 90 and 365 days after discharge.

Liver Fibrosis, but No Other Histologic Features, Is Associated With Long-term Outcomes of Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Background & Aims: Histologic analysis of liver biopsy specimens allows for grading and staging of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). We performed a longitudinal study to investigate the long-term prognostic relevance of histologic features for patients with NAFLD.

Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of 619 patients diagnosed with NAFLD from 1975 through 2005 at medical centers in the United States, Europe, and Thailand.

Has PET/CT a role in the characterization of indeterminate lung lesions on staging CT in colorectal cancer? A prospective study.

Purpose: CT has been found superior to chest x-ray to detect lung malignances. However, indeterminate lung lesions (ILL) are found in 4-42% by using CT in staging colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Our aim was to examine the frequency of ILL on staging CT and the rate of the ILL being malignant, and to investigate if PET/CT was useful in pointing out the malignant cases.

Four-fold increase in foot ulcers in type 2 diabetic subjects without an increase in major amputations by a multidisciplinary setting.

Aims: We observed a large increase in type 2 diabetic subjects with foot ulcers in our diabetic outpatient foot clinic and wanted to identify the amputations rate and individuals at risk of amputations by comparing those who had had a regular control in the multidisciplinary foot clinic prior to the amputations and those who had not.

Methods: We examined all clinical records from the orthopaedic surgery department and the diabetic outpatient foot clinic of diabetic patients who underwent amputations for 6 years.

Results: Eighty-eight patients with type 2 diabetes underwent 142 amputations; 42 major and 100 minor amputations.