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Bariatric surgery has become more common due to the worldwide obesity epidemic. This surgery is the most effective tool ever devised for the morbidly obese to assist them with the control of their co-morbidities. With the increasing number of bariatric procedures being performed annually, it is expected that the incidence of revisions will increase. However, problems can and do arise, needing r...

We have reviewed 42 patients who had revision of metal-on-metal resurfacing procedures, mostly because of problems with the acetabular component. The revisions were carried out a mean of 26.2 months (1 to 76) after the initial operation and most of the patients (30) were female. Malpositioning of the acetabular component resulted in 27 revisions, mostly because of excessive abduction (mean 69.9...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Two-stage revision remains the gold standard in the treatment of infected knee arthroplasty. Lately, good long-term results of direct exchange arthroplasty have been reported. The purpose of this literature review is to compare the clinical outcome achieved with one-stage revision and two-stage revision with different types of spacers. METHODS A thorough systematic revi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In October 2009, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) food package was revised to include more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lower-fat milk. We examined the impact of the WIC food package revisions on the diet quality of children in households using WIC. METHODS A total of 1197 children aged 2 to 4 years from low-in...

Pastwatch is a version control system that acts like a traditional client-server system when users are connected to the network; users can see each other’s changes immediately after the changes are committed. When a user is not connected, Pastwatch also allows users to read revisions from the repository, commit new revisions and share modifications directly between users, all without access to ...

Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is one of the most frequent reasons for painful shoulder arthroplasties and revision surgery of shoulder arthroplasties. Cutibacterium acnes (Propionibacterium acnes) is one of the microorganisms that most often causes the infection. However, this slow growing microorganism is difficult to detect. This paper presents an overview of different diagnostic test ...