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Bone Mineral Density After Contemporary Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia: A Matched Cross‐Sectional Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Reduced bone mineral density (BMD) has been reported in survivors of childhood and young adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL); however, data from cohorts treated with contemporary protocols and including matched controls remain limited.
Karen Schow Jensen, Mette Tiedemann Skipper, Niels Holtum Birkebæk, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Thomas Leth Frandsen, Bente Langdahl, Rikke Beck Jensen, Asger Roer Pedersen, Christian Mølgaard, Liv Andrés‐Jensen, Birgitte Klug Albertsen   +10 more
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A randomised controlled trial of total hip arthroplasty versus resurfacing arthroplasty in the treatment of young patients with arthritis of the hip joint [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Hip replacement (arthroplasty) surgery is a highly successful treatment for patients with severe symptomatic arthritis of the hip joint. For older patients, several designs of Total Hip Arthroplasty have shown excellent results in terms of ...
Costa, Matthew L., Parsons, Nicholas R., Richard P Edlin, Damian R Griffin, Edlin Richard P, Achten, Juul, Achten, J., Edlin, Richard P., Matthew L Costa, Achten Juul, Nick R Parsons, Parsons Nick R, Griffin, Damian R., Edlin, R.P., Griffin, D.R., Costa, M.L., Costa Matthew L, Griffin Damian R, Juul Achten, Parsons, N.R.   +19 more
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Early Clinical, Imaging, and Pathological Characteristics of SRPK3/TTN‐Digenic Myopathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy was recently established as a skeletal muscle myopathy caused by digenic inheritance. This study characterizes the early clinical presentation of SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy in one previously reported and seven newly identified pediatric patients.
Rotem Orbach, Sandra Donkervoort, Carola Hedberg‐Oldfors, Giovanni Baranello, Dimah Saade, Precilla D'Souza, Ruchee Patel, Eva Michael, A. Reghan Foley, Diana Bharucha‐Goebel, S. Jin Haugland, Meghan McAnally, Omer Abdul Hamid, Katherine Chao, Ellen F. Macnamara, Alan H. Beggs, Anna Sarkozy, Juliane Mueller, Steven A. Moore, Richard S. Finkel, Cynthia J. Tifft, Francesco Muntoni, Anders Oldfors, Carsten G. Bönnemann   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of hospital funding reform on wait times for hip fracture surgery: a population-based interrupted time-series analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Health care funding reforms are being used worldwide to improve system performance but may invoke unintended consequences. We assessed the effects of introducing a targeted hospital funding model, based on fixed price and volume, for hip ...
Daniel Pincus, Jessica Widdifield, Karen S. Palmer, J. Michael Paterson, Alvin Li, Anjie Huang, David Wasserstein, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Adalsteinn Brown, Monica Taljaard, Noah M. Ivers   +10 more
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Variations in initial acceptance and continued adherence to wearing hip protectors: Are they explained by factors other than staff attitude? [PDF]

, 2004
Hip fractures are an important consequence of falling. Methods of preventing hip fractures include: 1. reducing the risk of falling , 2. strengthen ing (or maintaining the strength of bones) through osteoporosis treatment and prevention , and 3 ...
Cryer, Colin
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Frailty Predicts Incident Osteoporotic Fractures in Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with an increased risk of frailty and osteoporosis, but the relationship between frailty and incident osteoporotic fractures in RA is underexplored. Methods Data were from the Veterans Affairs (VA) Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry. Frailty was measured using the VA Frailty Index (VAFI).
Katherine D. Wysham, Hannah F. Brubeck, Aaron Baraff, Punyasha Roul, Namrata Singh, James S. Andrews, Grant W. Cannon, Gary A. Kunkel, Ted R. Mikuls, Bryant R. England, Dolores M. Shoback, Patricia P. Katz, Jose M. Garcia, Ariela R. Orkaby, Joshua F. Baker   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are hip-specific items useful in a quality of life questionnaire for patients with hip fractures?

, 2009
Researchers measure the significance of hip fracture by the patient's impairment. The patient's quality of life (QOL) is usually also substantially affected. However, there is no specific quality of life (QOL questionnaire for patients with hip fractures.
Yao, Kai-Ping Grace; Lee, Hsin-Yi; Tsauo, Jau-Yih, 姚開屏;李昕怡;曹昭懿   +1 more
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For the first fracture to be the last

Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia, 2016
Increased longevity has made progression in the number of fractures increasingly significant. Because hip fractures give rise to high morbidity and mortality rates and have high treatment costs, their occurrence is the most important marker of ...
Bernardo Stolnicki, Lindomar Guimarães Oliveira   +1 more
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Rheumatoid arthritis, frailty, and outcomes of surgical hospitalizations: A national population‐based analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
OBJECTIVE Hospitalization, particularly for surgery, represents a period of heightened stress. We evaluated how frailty attenuates the association of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with negative health outcomes after elective non‐cardiac surgery. METHODS We conducted a cross‐sectional study using the National Inpatient Sample (2018 to 2020), including ...
Ali Yazdanyar, Joshua Baker, Katherine D Wysham, Mohammed Yousufuddin, Farah Acher Kaiksow, Michael M. Ward   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sports Activity After Short-Stem Hip Arthroplasty [PDF]

, 2011
Background: No data are available about the sports activity of patients with bone-conserving short-stem hip implants. Hypothesis: Patients can return to a good level of sports activity after implantation of a short-stem hip implant.
Fottner, Andreas, Grote, Stefan, Farhad Mazoochian, Pietschmann, Matthias, Volkmar Jansson, Patrick Weber, Schmidutz, Florian, Stefan Grote, Jansson, Volkmar, Weber, Patrick, Matthias Pietschmann, Mazoochian, Farhad, Andreas Fottner, Florian Schmidutz   +13 more
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