From the Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance, The Lipscomb Clinic, Nashville, Tennessee Address correspondence to Allen F. Anderson, MD, Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance, The Lipscomb Clinic, 4230 Harding Road, Suite 1000, St. Thomas Medical Building, Nashville, TN 37205 (e-mail: [email protected]). One or more authors has declared a potential conflict of interest: Allen F. Anderson has received ...

BACKGROUND Industry payments to surgeons have received public attention, but little is known about the relationships between surgeons and medical device representatives. Medical device representatives ("device reps") have become an integral part of operating room personnel. The effect of their presence on patient care deserves discussion. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a qualitative, ethnographic ...

Computational models of joint anatomy and function provide a means for biomechanists, physicians, and physical therapists to understand the effects of repetitive motion, acute injury, and degenerative diseases. Finite element models, for example, may be used to predict the outcome of a surgical intervention or to improve the design of prosthetic implants. Countless models have been developed ov...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the clinical effectiveness of the Medtronic AneuRx stent-graft in patients with infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) who were treated in an endovascular suite. BACKGROUND The use of endovascular stent-graft prosthesis for the treatment of AAAs is receiving increasing attention as an alternative to standard surgical repair. Endovascular treatment of AAAs...

Therapeutic interventions unique to the neuroradiology suite include the endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (AVM), acute thromboembolic disease, cerebral vasospasm, and extracranial and intracranial cerebrovascular atherosclerotic disease. A recent review of the National Inpatient Sample reported a doubling of the number of endovascular cases from 1993 to ...