Over a five year period, 137 athletes presented to a Sports Injury Clinic with patello-femoral arthralgia. This was 5.4% of the total injuries seen and a quarter of all knee problems treated. Running contributed to 32% of the athletes with patello-femoral pain. There was a 4:1 male:female ratio and nearly 70% were in the 16-25 year age range. A follow-up questionnaire was sent to 72 athletes se...

This case report describes two cases of peri-prosthetic fracture during physical therapy in patients who underwent a hip resurfacing, or surface replacement arthroplasty. The fractures occurred with forceful passive combined flexion and external rotation. Functional results were ultimately obtained in both cases, requiring conversion to total hip arthroplasty. Recognizing patient risk factors a...

BACKGROUND Excessive femoral anteversion is common in cerebral palsy (CP), is often associated with internal hip rotation during gait, and is frequently treated with a femoral derotational osteotomy (FDO). Concerns exist regarding long-term maintenance of surgical outcomes. Past studies report varying rates of recurrence, but none have employed a control group. METHODS We conducted a retrospe...

A retrospective review of 253 patients who underwent coronary bypass surgery was performed. Eight (3.2%) had suffered a stroke either intra-operatively (4) or during the early post-operative period (4). A comparison of pre-operative and intra-operative variables between the stroke group and the stroke-free group showed a significant difference only for the hemoglobin level (p less than 0.01). A...

Our aim in this retrospective study of 52 children with spastic hemiplegia was to determine the factors which affected the amount of residual pelvic rotation after single-event multilevel surgery. The patients were divided into two groups, those who had undergone femoral derotation osteotomy and those who had not. Pelvic rotation improved significantly after surgery in the femoral osteotomy gro...

Purpose: Evaluating the results of modified PAO in management acetabular dysplasia. Patients and Methods: This prospective study included 13 cases. All cases were diagnosed with dysplasia then treated by using our technique. In all patients, retro-acetabular cut was performed before ischial during surgery. Eight stage IV five III according to Severin classification. The mean preoperative HHS 83...

When the British Orthopaedic Association commissioned an investigation of the results of treatment of slipped upper femoral epiphysis, it seemed that this might be based more broadly than upon the results of a particular operation popular at the moment, and that the inevitable delay while patients remained under observation would provide an opportunity of studying the clinical characteristics o...

Stenting of aortic coarctation became the method of choice. In severe aortic coarctation, when retrograde crossing of the coarctation is impossible, a secondary approach with antegrade arterial crossing proved to be the solution in many cases. Here we report two cases of severe aortic coarctation in males aged 12 and 14, respectively, in which we used a secondary transradial approach (right and...

Determination of Travel Distance for Noninvasive Measurement of Pulse Wave Velocity: Case Closed? To the Editor: Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is currently considered the gold-standard measurement for arterial stiffness.1 In clinical routine, noninvasive assessment is the only feasible method, whereas, for research purposes, catheter-based invasive determination, as well as MRI, m...