Procedures News

Friday, April 13, 2007 Better Pain Management Urged for OA Patients Awaiting Hip or Knee Replacement in U.K.
Most patients on waiting lists for hip or knee replacement in Britain, report continuing, severe pain and suboptimal levels of analgesia...

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Less Use of Diuretics, Earlier Hypouricemic Therapy Urged In Renal Transplant Patients At Risk for Recurrent Gout
Up to 23% of renal transplant recipients develop gout posttransplant but most are not getting hypouricemic therapy, even when they report recurrent gout attacks...

Friday, February 16, 2007 No Gain to Pre-Op Antibiotics Before Knee Arthroscopy
Routine knee arthroscopy is associated with a very low rate of infection, and preoperative antibiotics do not reduce that rate…

Thursday, February 15, 2007 Surgeons Warn Against Over-Use of "Minimally Invasive Surgery" for Hip Replacements
Surgeons at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 74th Annual Meeting questioned the advantages of minimally invasive hip replacement surgery compared with "gold standard" open THR... AAOS 2007 Annual Meeting.

Friday, January 12, 2007 Lavage With Steroids Better Than Aspiration With Steroids for Inflammatory Knee  Arthritis
Arthroscopic lavage plus steroids provides a more prolonged therapeutic benefit than  joint aspiration plus steroids or lavage alone in knee inflammatory arthritis...

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 Massage May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered for Pain of Knee OA
Swedish massage therapy may help decrease pain and improve function among patients with knee osteoarthritis...

Thursday, December 07, 2006 High-Dose Immune Suppression With or Without Stem Cell Transplants For Systemic Sclerosis
Studies are evaluating stem cell transplantation as a potential treatment for autoimmune disease, however, researchers sharply disagree regarding myeloablative vs nonmyeloablative approaches and whether stem cells are really necessary...

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Non-Myeloablative Stem Cell Transplants Safe, Effective in Scleroderma
A pilot study of a non-myeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation regimen for patients with severe scleroderma reports 90% overall survival and 70% progression-free survival at 2 years…Barr WG, et al. Presented at: ACR 2006 Meeting.

Thursday, November 02, 2006 RCT Supports Acupuncture Benefit in Knee, Hip OA
Acupuncture combined with usual medical care results in improvements in both pain and quality of life among patients with chronic knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA) compared with routine care alone...

Friday, October 13, 2006 THR Also Relieves Back Pain In Patients With Severe Hip OA
Replacing a severely damaged hip joint also relieves back pain and reduces disability in a high proportion of elderly patients with hip OA... Ben-Galim P, et al. The North American Spine Society 21st Annual Meeting.