Sentences with phrase «undergoing knee replacement»

By modeling indirect savings of the individual returning to the work force after surgery, researchers found that the lifetime societal net benefit for patients undergoing knee replacement averages between $ 10,000 and $ 30,000.

GOP US Senate candidate Wendy Long is having a «meet and greet» with Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. at Westchester Square Hospital (2475 Saint Raymond Ave., the Bronx) at 3 p.m. (The senator recently underwent knee replacement surgery and is still recovering).

«We would recommend being selective when indicating patients for injection, and limiting use of injections to people unlikely to undergo knee replacement in the near future,» said lead study author Nicholas Bedard, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Gavrin proceeds to tell me about his bad experiences with opioids and other drugs after he underwent a knee replacement a couple of years ago.

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There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips and knees: A new study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief and improved function as normal - weight joint replacement patients six months after surgery.

Dr. Goesling and her team analyzed patterns of opioid use in 574 patients undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery (arthroplasty).

For patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement, smoking is associated with an increased risk of infectious (septic) complications requiring repeat surgery, reports a study in the February 15 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

So a team of US researchers, led by Dr Stavros Memtsoudis at Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Dr Jashvant Poeran at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, both in New York, set out to determine the effectiveness and safety of tranexamic acid in a large sample of US patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement surgery.

A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.

The researchers looked at how smoking history affected the risk of hospital readmissions among patients undergoing total joint replacement — either hip or knee replacement.

The study included data on 15,264 patients who underwent a total of 17,394 total joint replacements between 2000 and 2014 — 8,917 hip and 8,477 knee replacements.

Many of the 30 million adults in the United States who suffer from osteoarthritis undergo whole knee or hip replacements.

There were 2,636 patients who underwent a total knee replacement and 792 who underwent a total hip replacement after bariatric surgery.

The propensity score was defined as the conditional probability of a patient undergoing bariatric surgery, given his or her baseline characteristics, including: age, year in which a total hip or total knee replacement was performed, laterality (unilateral versus bilateral surgery), sex, health care payer, region (rural versus urban), and Elixhauser comorbidities.

In the second study, doctors Courtney, Lee, and their colleagues, examined a total of 738 patients who underwent total hip and knee replacement.

Thus, patients with even one of these risk factors should not undergo outpatient or overnight total hip and total knee replacement.

«Under the previous model, nearly one in four patients undergoing knee or hip replacement were preemptively admitted to the ICU,» said Lee.

Although the risk of life - threatening complications from knee replacement surgery is very small, people who undergo total knee replacement are four times more likely to die in the first month after surgery compared to those who have partial knee replacement, and 15 per cent more likely to die in the first eight years.

In this population of shoulder - arthroplasty patients, obesity was not a risk factor for blood clot - related complications (thromboembolism), as it is for patients undergoing hip or knee replacement.

Two related studies also found a growing incidence of adults younger than age 65 undergoing total knee replacement (TKR) and total hip replacement (THR) surgeries, and a potential underutilization of these procedures in some segments of the population.

To obtain a broad sample of patients undergoing non-cardiac inpatient procedures, such as hip or knee replacements, researchers examined elective, urgent and emergency surgeries as well as procedures performed during the day, at night, on weekdays and on weekends.

But this is the first study to show that it can help prevent repeat surgery in women who have undergone hip / knee replacement, say the authors.

Non-biologic DMARDs may be continued throughout the perioperative period in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and lupus undergoing elective hip or knee replacement.

In the first such collaboration of its kind, an expert panel of rheumatologists and orthopedic surgeons has developed guidelines for the perioperative management of anti-rheumatic medication in patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement.

We investigated genes and pathways that mark OA progression in isolated primary chondrocytes taken from paired intact versus degraded articular cartilage samples across 38 patients undergoing joint replacement surgery (discovery cohort: 12 knee OA, replication cohorts: 17 knee OA, 9 hip OA patients).

The placebo - taking control group took 32 % longer than they did before undergoing the knee - replacement surgery.

In fact, eucalyptus inhalation has been shown to decrease pain, swelling, and inflammation in patients who underwent total knee replacement.

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Patients who have undergone knee or hip replacement surgery while on Xarelto have developed serious blood clots — which could trigger a stroke or lead to possible heart attack if the blood clots were to travel to the brain.

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