A retrospective, single-center review from 2010 to 2018. Of 211 patients with asymptomatic 80% 99% stenosis based on an end-diastolic velocity of >140 cm/s duplex ultrasonography, 35 (17%) were treated nonoperatively or delayed operation >6 months later because severe medical comorbidities (37%), advanced age (17%), no referral for intervention (14%), patient refusal other concomitant cerebrova...

In an effort to avoid arthroplasty at a relatively young age, unloading tibial tuberosity anteromedialization (AMZ) has been increasingly utilized in the treatment of symptomatic isolated patellofemoral osteoarthritis (PFOA). The purpose this study was compare outcomes PFOA patients treated non-operatively with those operatively AMZ. A retrospective chart review performed identify who were eith...

OBJECTIVE Non-operative management of blunt splenic injury in adults has been applied increasingly at the end of the last century. Therefore, the lifelong risk of overwhelming post-splenectomy infection has been the major impetus for preservation of the spleen. However, the prevalence of posttraumatic infection after splenectomy in contrast to a conservative management is still unknown. Objecti...