Orthopedics

Rapid regression of cystoid macular edema associated with cytomegalovirus retinitis in adult acute myeloid leukemia by intravitreal methotrexate combined with oral valganciclovir: A case report with comparison of binocular outcome.

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis is a late complication of organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant, the risk of which depends on the degree of immunosuppression. With the institution of preemptive ganciclovir therapy early after transplant, most patients survive episodes of life-threatening CMV infection during the early months (usually the first 3 months) after transplant and hence late onset...

Comparison of Perioperative Blood Loss in Primary Non-cemented Total Hip Arthroplasty for Rapidly Destructive Coxarthrosis and Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to compare the perioperative blood loss in primary non-cemented total hip arthroplasty (THA) performed for rapidly destructive coxarthrosis (RDC) with the perioperative blood loss in primary non-cemented THA for typical osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH).

Robotically assisted percutaneous coronary intervention: benefits to the patient and the cardiologist.

Robotic percutaneous interventional systems represent the future of interventional cardiology. Robotic technology significantly reduces operator expos...

Spinal plasticity in robot-mediated therapy for the lower limbs.

Robot-mediated therapy can help improve walking ability in patients following injuries to the central nervous system. However, the efficacy of this tr...

Robotic-assisted knee arthroplasty.

Robotics in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has undergone vast improvements. Although some of the systems have fallen out of favor due to safety concern...

Single-bundle ACL reconstruction with and without extra-articular reconstruction: evaluation with robotic lower leg rotation testing and patient satisfaction scores.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to compare the biomechanical characteristics and patient outcomes after either isolated intraarticular ACL reco...

A Robot-Driven Computational Model for Estimating Passive Ankle Torque With Subject-Specific Adaptation.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted ankle assessment could potentially be conducted using sensor-based and model-based methods. Existing ankle rehabilitation r...

Neural-Dynamic-Method-Based Dual-Arm CMG Scheme With Time-Varying Constraints Applied to Humanoid Robots.

We propose a dual-arm cyclic-motion-generation (DACMG) scheme by a neural-dynamic method, which can remedy the joint-angle-drift phenomenon of a human...

Teriparatide for the rapid resolution of delayed healing of atypical fractures associated with long-term bisphosphonate use.

Bisphosphonates (BPs) are the most widely used drugs to treat osteoporosis. However, recent reports associated to long-term BPs use with atypical low-...

Unskilled unawareness and the learning curve in robotic spine surgery.

BACKGROUND: Robotic assistance for the placement of pedicle screws has been established as a safe technique. Nonetheless rare instances of screw mispl...

Multimodal probabilistic generative models for time-course gene expression data and Gene Ontology (GO) tags.

We propose four probabilistic generative models for simultaneously modeling gene expression levels and Gene Ontology (GO) tags. Unlike previous approa...

Robot-assisted primary cementless total hip arthroplasty with a short femoral stem: a prospective randomized short-term outcome study.

BACKGROUND: Recently, two topical issues in total hip arthroplasty (THA) have been robot-assisted surgery and use of a short stem. The purpose of this...

Aromatase inhibitor treatment for breast cancer: short-term effect on bone health.

AIM OF THIS STUDY: Aim of this study was to examine the effects of aromatase inhibitors (AIs), which are used in every phase of breast cancer treatmen...

Human upper-limb force capacities evaluation with robotic models for ergonomic applications: effect of elbow flexion.

The aim of this study was to apply models derived from the robotics field to evaluate the human upper-limb force generation capacity. Four models were...

Surrogate modeling of deformable joint contact using artificial neural networks.

Deformable joint contact models can be used to estimate loading conditions for cartilage-cartilage, implant-implant, human-orthotic, and foot-ground i...

An integrated CAD/CAM/robotic milling method for custom cementless femoral prostheses.

Aseptic loosening is the primary cause of cementless femoral prosthesis failure and is related to the primary stability of the cementless femoral pros...

Intrawound Vancomycin Powder for Spine Tumor Surgery.

Study Design Retrospective evaluation of prospectively collected data. Objective To evaluate infection rates following intrawound vancomycin powder ap...

Efficacy of Postoperative Pain Management Using Continuous Local Anesthetic Infusion at the Iliac Crest Bone Graft Site in Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Parallel, Double-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.

Study Design Randomized controlled trial. Objective Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a common spinal deformity that affects every population. ...

Approach-Related Complications of Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Results of a Combined Spine and Vascular Surgical Team.

Study Design Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected cohort data. Objective Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) is a commonly performed ...

CYP19A1 Genetic Polymorphisms rs4646 and Osteoporosis in Patients Treated with Aromatase Inhibitor-Based Adjuvant Therapy.

OBJECTIVE: Third-generation aromatase inhibitors (AI) are potent suppressors of aromatase activity. The aim of this study was to measure the incidence...