Casey Tingle

Patients who used nicotine within 1 year before open reduction and internal fixation for ankle fracture had an increased risk for postoperative complications, according to results.

Results presented at the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Annual Meeting showed National Basketball Association players with prior calf strains had significantly increased odds of experiencing an Achilles tendon rupture

Results showed patients who underwent rapid exchange arthroplasty for chronic periprosthetic joint infection experienced superior outcomes at 24 months compared with two-stage exchange arthroplasty.“The most important concept I have walked away with is the importance of extended, local, high-dose antibiotics around the infection to irradicate the antibiotic tolerant biofilm,” Ken

Results showed extended oral antibiotic therapy may not reduce the risk for subsequent infection after two-stage reimplantation for total knee arthroplasty

CHICAGO — According to WHO, women represent 67% of the global health and social care workforce, providing essential health services to approximately 5 billion people worldwide.

Researchers developed and validated a new classification system that may standardize reporting of all relevant grades of clinical presentation and management of surgical site outcomes, according to published results.

Extended oral antibiotic prophylaxis may not reduce odds of periprosthetic joint infection after aseptic revision total knee arthroplasty out to 5 years.

Patients who received prophylactic oral antibiotics after aseptic revision total hip arthroplasty had higher rates of infection and wound complications, according to results.

Results showed a standardized international registry may capture longitudinal patterns after scapholunate ligament surgery, with early worsening function and pain postoperatively before improvement and stabilization.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A multicenter machine learning analysis identified several patient risk factors as being associated with instability after reverse shoulder arthroplasty