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Hospital spending and length of stay attributable to perioperative adverse events for inpatient hip, knee, and spine surgery: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background The incremental hospital cost and length of stay (LOS) associated with adverse events (AEs) has not been well characterized for planned and unplanned inpatient spine, hip, and knee surgeries.
Y. Raja Rampersaud, Kala Sundararajan, Shgufta Docter, Anthony V. Perruccio, Rajiv Gandhi, Diana Adams, Natasha Briggs, J. Rod Davey, Michael Fehlings, Stephen J. Lewis, Rosalie Magtoto, Eric Massicotte, Angela Sarro, Khalid Syed, Nizar N. Mahomed, Christian Veillette   +15 more
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Bone loss and aggravated autoimmune arthritis in HLA-DRβ1-bearing humanized mice following oral challenge with Porphyromonas gingivalis [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: The linkage between periodontal disease and rheumatoid arthritis is well established. Commonalities among the two are that both are chronic inflammatory diseases characterized by bone loss, an association with the shared epitope ...
Brand, David D, Dong, Chen, Karydis, Anastasios, Luo, Jiwen, Mydel, Piotr, Novack, Deborah V, Prislovsky, Amanda, Radic, Marko Z, Rosloniec, Edward F, Sandal, Indra, Whittington, Karen B, Zheng, Song Guo   +11 more
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Effectiveness of an online self-management tool, OPERAS (an On-demand Program to EmpoweR Active Self-management), for people with rheumatoid arthritis: a research protocol

Trials, 2019
Background Active self-management is a process where patients are fully engaged in managing their health in daily life by having access to contextualized health data and tailored guidance to support a healthy lifestyle.
Johnathan Tam, Diane Lacaille, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Chris Shaw, Hui Xie, Catherine L. Backman, John M. Esdaile, Kimberly Miller, Robert Petrella, Linda C. Li   +9 more
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Altered thymic differentiation and modulation of arthritis by invariant NKT cells expressing mutant ZAP70 [PDF]

, 2018
Various subsets of invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells with different cytokine productions develop in the mouse thymus, but the factors driving their differentiation remain unclear.
A Hutloff, AK Stanic, B San Luis, BB Au-Yeung, BB Au-Yeung, CQ Chu, D Davidson, DG Pellicci, DG Pellicci, DG Wei, DI Godfrey, EJ Wherry, F Scheuplein, F Scheuplein, FW McNab, G Anderson, G Fu, G Kollias, G Seumois, H Georgiev, H Watarai, HS Azzam, I Engel, I Engel, J Henao-Mejia, J Novak, J Zikherman, JL Matsuda, JL Matsuda, JM Mason, K Benlagha, K Hirota, K Oleinika, K Yamamoto, L Brossay, L Linsen, LH Mason, LM D'Cruz, M Cruz Tleugabulova, M Gaya, M Guma, M Hashimoto, M Kronenberg, M Zhu, MA Weinreich, MB Drennan, MC Leite-De-Moraes, MC Leite-De-Moraes, MI Zimmer, MP Seiler, N Bottini, N Sakaguchi, NA Nagarajan, R Genolet, RJ Martinez, S Akbulut, S Jung, S Picelli, S Sidobre, SE Levin, TN Newman, V Cerundolo, V Sivakumar, WY Lee, X Li, YJ Lee, YL Chiu   +66 more
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The role of knee arthroscopy in managing common soft tissue complications after total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective case series study

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2020
Background To investigate the feasibility, safety and therapeutic efficacy of arthroscopy in managing the 3 most common soft tissue complications, peripatellar impingement (PI), arthrofibrosis (AF) and generalized synovitis (GS), after total knee ...
Yunfei Hou, Jiaxiang Gao, Jian Chen, Jianhao Lin, Lei Ni, Tiezheng Sun, Jun Jiang   +6 more
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Challenges documenting racial disparities in Merkel cell carcinoma

Cancer Biology & Therapy, 2022
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive neuroendocrine skin cancer that predominantly impacts White patients. Overall incidence and the proportion of minority patients with MCC are both rising.
Mackenzie R. Martin, Noreen Mohsin, Serena Vilasi, Danielle Reed, Isaac Brownell   +4 more
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Early Failure of Total Ankle Arthroplasty in a Patient with Ipsilateral Varus Knee Deformity

Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2021
Multiple risk factors such as age, body mass index (BMI), preoperative diagnosis, smoking, diabetes mellitus, malalignment of an implant, and presence of ipsilateral hindfoot fusion have been shown to contribute to failure of total ankle arthroplasty ...
Taehyeon Kim, Su Chan Lee, Chang Hyun Nam, Suengryol Ryu, Hye Sun Ahn, Ji-Hoon Baek   +5 more
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Progress in spondylarthritis immunopathogenesis of spondyloarthritis: which cells drive disease? [PDF]

, 2009
Spondyloarthritides, or SpA, form a cluster of chronic inflammatory diseases with the axial skeleton as the most typical disease localisation, although extra-articular manifestations such as intestinal inflammation may frequently occur during the course ...
Melis, Lode, Elewaut, Dirk
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A rare case of clostridium difficile infection-associated reactive arthritis [PDF]

, 2018
Clostridium difficile is an uncommon cause of reactive arthritis in children. We herein present a rare case of C. difficile infection-associated reactive arthritis (CDIAReA) in a child, who developed severe diarrhea and a knee effusion following a course
Derinkuyu, B.E., Polat, Meltem, Tapısız, A., Tezer, H.   +3 more
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Caloric restriction improves glycaemic control without reducing plasma branched-chain amino acids or keto-acids in obese men

Scientific Reports, 2022
Higher plasma leucine, isoleucine and valine (BCAA) concentrations are associated with diabetes, obesity and insulin resistance (IR). Here, we evaluated the effects of 6-weeks very-low calorie diet (VLCD) upon fasting BCAA in overweight (OW) non-diabetic
M. H. Sayda, M. H. Abdul Aziz, N. Gharahdaghi, D. J. Wilkinson, P. L. Greenhaff, B. E. Phillips, K. Smith, I. Idris, P. J. Atherton   +8 more
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