Powdered Vancomycin Cuts Surgical Infection Risk in Diabetic Patients
A recent case-control study in Foot & Ankle International found that high-risk diabetic patients (mean age of 60) undergoing reconstructive …
Lumbar Spine Surgery Helps Parkinson Patients
Despite a higher rate of complications than in the general population, overall outcomes of lumbar spine surgery in patients with …
History of Diabetes Predicts Symptom Recurrence after Steroid Injection for CTS
Among a prospectively enrolled group of 49 patients (54 wrists) with mild or moderate carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) who received …
JBJS Editor’s Choice—Quality-of-Life Measures Emphasize Impact of Long Bone Nonunions
“Health-related quality of life” is easier to say than to measure. In the September 2, 2015 edition of The Journal…
Fibrin No Friend of Fracture Repair
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have concluded that fibrin, a protein involved in blood clotting and found abundantly around …
What’s New in Foot and Ankle Surgery: Level I and II Studies
Every month, JBJS publishes a Specialty Update—a review of the most pertinent and impactful studies published in the orthopaedic literature …
JBJS Editor’s Choice—Diabetes Boosts Infection Risk After ACL Surgery
In the March 18 2015 edition of The Journal, Brophy et al. and investigators from the MOON Knee …
Another Look at Bisphosphonates and Jaw Osteonecrosis
A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that approximately one out of 200 Taiwanese who …