Background and purpose — The sacroiliac joint is increasingly recognized as a cause of pain in 15–30% of patients with low back pain. Nonoperative management is not always successful and surgical treatment with fusion of the joint is increasingly ...
Engelke Marie Randers +4 more
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Background Sacroiliac joint tuberculous arthritis is a relatively rare site of tuberculosis infection, but it can lead to severe sacroiliac joint destruction and dysfunction.
Qi Tian +7 more
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Triple valve infective endocarditis - a late diagnosis [PDF]
Behcet\u27s disease is a systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology with cardiac involvement as well as damage to other organs. Whether the sterile valvular inflammation which occurs in this autoimmune disease predisposes to bacterial adhesion and ...
Barbulescu, Andreea L. +10 more
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Radiofrequency Denervation for Management of Chronic Sacroiliac Joint Pain [PDF]
Background Data: The largest axial joint in the body is the sacroiliac (SI) joint. Understanding the innervation of the SI joint is essential when contemplating denervation procedures.
Ahmed Abd El Barr +2 more
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Cost-effectiveness of minimal interventional procedures for chronic mechanical low back pain: design of four randomised controlled trials with an economic evaluation [PDF]
Background: Minimal interventional procedures are frequently applied in patients with mechanical low back pain which is defined as pain presumably resulting from single sources: facet, disc, sacroiliac joint or a combination of these.
A Cahana +73 more
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Combined aorto-iliac and anterior lumbar spine reconstruction: A case series [PDF]
Background: Treatment options for aortic-iliac pathology may include endovascular repair and open surgical repair. Treatment options for degenerative disc disease (DDD) are varied but commonly include anterior reconstruction.
Furness, James +6 more
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Clinical results of the treatment for sacroiliac joint pain by radiofrequency neurotomy
Objective: Sacroiliac joint pain is one of several causes of lower limb and lower back pain not originating from the spine, spinal cord, or nerve roots. The authors examined outcomes of treating sacroiliac joint pain using radiofrequency neurotomy (RFN),
Keisuke Ito
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Randomized Sham-controlled Double-Blind Multicenter Clinical Trial to Ascertain the Effect of Percutaneous Radiofrequency Treatment for Sacroiliac Joint Pain: Three-month Results [PDF]
Objectives: To investigate the effect of a percutaneous radiofrequency (RF) heat lesion compared with a sham procedure, applied to the lateral branches of L5, S1, S2, S3, and S4 nerve roots.
Berthelot +35 more
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Sacroiliac Joint Pain: Burden of Disease [PDF]
The sacroiliac joint (SIJ) is an important and significant cause of low back pain. We sought to quantify the burden of disease attributable to the SIJ.The authors compared EuroQol 5D (EQ-5D) and Short Form (SF)-36-based health state utility values derived from the preoperative evaluation of patients with chronic SIJ pain participating in two ...
Cher, Daniel +2 more
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MRI of the axial skeleton in spondyloarthritis : the many faces of new bone formation [PDF]
Spondyloarthritis has two hallmark features: active inflammation and structural lesions with new bone formation. MRI is well suited to assess active inflammation, but there is increasing interest in the role of structural lesions at MRI.
Carron, Philippe +7 more
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