Alessandro Geraci

• MD, PhD, BBM
• Medical Doctor at Azienda ULSS numero 2 Marca Trevigiana, Presidio di Montebelluna

Somatization is a phenomenon in which the individual experiences physical symptoms attributable to mental projections. It is a widely used term in common parlance to figuratively describe a stressful situation. Syndromes directly related to the mind have been described; pathologies are influenced by somatization. However, the extent of somatization...

Enchondroma (EC) is a benign and cartilage-forming tumor that causes intramedullary lesions. Moreover, EC is the most common bone tumor in the phalanges and metacarpal bones of the hand, deforming the structure and causing pain and functional limitation. The management of this neoplasia is the surgical treatment and the approach that is well-accept...

Le fratture di bacino sono un’entità poco frequente, ma la crescente incidenza e le caratteristiche di elevata mortalità e morbilità cui si accompagnano, le rendono un importante capitolo della traumatologia scheletrica. Le fratture dell’anello pelvico non sono molto frequenti: rappresentano solo il 2-8% di tutte le fratture, ma sono presenti nel 2...

Background: The acromion clavicular joint dislocations are common injuries of the shoulder. The severity is dependent upon the degree of ligamentous injury. Surgical treatment is typically performed in higher grade acromioclavicular separation with several static and dynamic operative procedures with or without primary ligament replacement. Methods...

INTRODUZIONE la protesi totale d'anca è di sicuro uno dei maggiori successi della moderna ortopedica, in grado di ridare ai pazienti con artrosi d'anca una nuova motilità dell'articolazione in assenza di dolore. L'età media dei pazienti operati è in diminuzione, mentre le esigenze funzionali ed estetiche sono sempre più in aumento. Per di più recen...

Introduzione: Le fratture dell'epifisi prossimale dell'omero rap-presentano circa il 5% delle fratture. Nonostante un adeguato trattamento, possono evolvere in artrosi gleno-omerale che, spe-cialmente nei pazienti giovani, è una frequente causa di dolore e disfunzione della spalla. La più recente letteratura indica che la protesi "resurfacing" cost...

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a severe clinical condition considered by many surgeons as a contraindication to the prosthetic hip. Many believe that the overweight and abundant fatty limit the surgeon during surgical maneuvers. METHODS: In our study, we evaluate the clinical results of 11 obese patients operated with anterior minimal invasive surgery (AMI...

Spontaneous rupture of the digital extensor tendons of the hand has been reported after Kienbock’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Vaughan-Jackson’ syndrome, distal radial fracture. Rupture may also occur as a consequence of unrecognized carpal lunate fracture. We present a case report of a man affected with spontaneous rupture of the digital extens...

From September 2013 to September 2014 we were collected 58 patients afflicted by chondromalacia patella femoral knee disease, diagnosed with MRI examination, 24 of these patients underwent an injection with hyaluronic acid (HA) (Cross-Linked 3.6 to 6 MDalton), the other 24 patients received the same therapy, but preceded by the intra-articular inje...

Dear Editor, further to the stimulating discussion between the Authors and some readers, we feel that some details about the paper we authored [1] should be clarified. For instance, we called the analyzed system Endovis while the exact name is Endovis Bio Advanced (Endovis BA). Both devices are pertrochanteric intramedullary nails, both are manufac...

Total hip arthroplasty [THA] is a cost-effective treatment for dysplastic or senile osteoarthitis. Arthritis of the hip has traditionally been perceived by the general population as a condition of the elderly, although the incidence in younger patients has been well documented [1,2]. Arthritis of the hip can refer to a number of different disorders...

Citation: Geraci A (2012) Anterior o Postero-Lateral Surgical Approch: Can we Identify Parameters for the Choice in Noncemented Hip Arthroplasty? Orthopedic Muscul Sys 1:e102. doi:10.4172/2161-0533.1000e102 Copyright: © 2012 Geraci A. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permi...

Citation: Geraci A (2012) The Tibial Pilon Fractures: Are there Problems?. Orthop Muscul Syst 1:e107. Copyright: © 2012 Geraci A. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and sourc...

The term Diagnosis-related Group (DRG) refers to a classification system used to assess hospital services with the aim of a better management of health care costs and improving performance. The DRG system focuses on the utilization of resources, and is not concerned with the specific type of care provided to the patient. This system highlights any...

Tantalum (TA) was discovered in Sweden in 1802 by Anders Eke-berg and isolated in 1820 by Berzelius Jöns. The TA is a transition hard and ductile metal, very resistant to corrosion, especially to acids, and it is a good conductor of heat and electricity. It is rather rare in nature and is found in the mineral tantalite. The TA is used in surgical i...

The synthetic Bone Substitution Materials (BSM) have become an indispensable tool for the orthopedic surgeon who has to fill gaps left by cancer, osteoporosis, fractures. They have a mineral composition similar to the human bone and they have the purpose of being a scaffold for the surrounding bone, a support on which they can grow osteoblasts, a n...

In inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) the suspected etiological cause is a dysregulation of the intestinal immune system, in which it is possible to determine a cross-like immune reactivity against the resident microbiota; this mechanism explains the existence of Lesniowski-Crohn's disease, a variant of IBD in which patients manifest osteoarticular p...

Aim: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degeneration of articular cartilage. Four components of the cartilage structure, glucosamine, chondroitin collagen type II and hyaluronic acid are available in a food supplement. It has been claimed that they reduce the pain of OA and help rebuild cartilage in patients with early OA. Methods: A multicentre, randomized,...

INTRODUCTION Ankylosing spondylitis [1] (AS) has a strong genetic association, with 90% of patients affected expressing the Histocompatibility Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) B27 genotype. How-ever, this positivity is not always present in AS: in fact, HLA-B27 negativity in a typical case of AS significantly increases the likelihood of the patient also bei...

Introduction This study was designed to assess intestinal symp-toms, compliance, and health-related quality of life in the endoscopic dilation of benign anastomotic colo-rectal or colo-colonic strictures. Initially, treat-ment for these strictures was only surgical. Nowa-days endoscopic dilation techniques are the first-line treatment for benign an...

Introduction The initial hypotheses concerning the cause of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), cen-tered on an infective mechanism, have since been proven wrong by thorough scientific studies. Today, newer theories include a multifactorial etiopathogenesis, involving he-reditary genetic factors, intestinal flora and exogenous factors such as tobacco...

Greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS) is a common cause of lower extremity pain. This is frequently attributed to trochanteric bursitis and distension of the subgluteal bursae. Patients are suffering from pain radiating to the posterolateral aspect of the thigh, paraesthesiae in the legs, and tenderness over the iliotibial tract. Often the symp...

The incidence of fractures in the trochanteric area has risen with the increasing numbers of elderly persons with osteoporosis. The imperative goals of treatment are early mobilization by means of stable fixation using as minimally invasive a procedure as possible. Nowadays, there is an increasing interest in intramedullary nailing, especially for...

Introduction The ecoguided viscosupplementation has a large application in the treatment of hip osteoarthritis: consequently various drugs are suggested for intra-articular use, and among them, the Polinucleotides recently. Therefore the object of the study was to compare the efficacy between the gel of polideossiribonucleotides (PDRN) and the Hyal...

Greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS) is a common cause of lower extremity pain. This is frequently attributed to trochanteric bursitis and distension of the subgluteal bursae. Patients are suffering from pain radiating to the posterolateral aspect of the thigh, paraesthesiae in the legs, and tenderness over the iliotibial tract. Often the symp...

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease are at increased risk of developing disorder in bone and mineral metabolism The study was aimed to determine if inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a risk factor for osteoporosis in 103 adult patients. We included 103 IBD patients, 67 patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) and 36 with ulcerative colitis (UC). Bo...

L’intervento di artroprotesi totale d’anca rappresenta uno dei maggiori successi della moderna ortopedia in grado di rivoluzionare la progressione di numerose patologie invalidanti, garantendo il ripristino della funzionalità articolare. Protesizzare un’anca significa sostituire l’articolazione coxo-femorale naturale, formata dalla cavità acetabola...

L'ortopedia può essere oggi considerata a pieno titolo specializzazione chirurgica ad alto impatto tecnologico che si sta evolvendo insieme alla bioingegneria ed alla tribologia dei materiali. Ogni intervento chirurgico ortopedico ha la funzione non di demolire un organo, bensì di ripristinare la sua geometria e funzione. Conoscere i danni dello sc...

Fractures of the distal extremity of the radius are the most common bone lesions of the superior extremity of the body, representing 17% of the fractures treated in First Aid facilities. The restoration of anatomical relationships in the radiocarpal joint is considered to be a prerequisite for good functional recovery. There are numerous methods of...

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease are at increased risk of developing disorder in bone and mineral metabolism The study was aimed to determine if inflammatory bowel dis-ease (IBD) is a risk factor for osteoporosis in 103 adult patients. We included 103 IBD patients, 67 patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and 36 with ulcerative colitis (UC). B...

Dupuytren's disease (DD) is a fibroproliferative disorder of unknown origin causing palmar nodules and flexion contracture of the digits. About 5% of individuals with DD are diabetic, with an increased prevalence that is proportional to the duration of the diabetes. The association with diabetes mellitus is well recorded, with a reported prevalence...

The pain and functional limitations caused by osteoarthritis in joints have multiple etiologies and often involve inflammatory mechanisms. The first level of medical intervention consists of therapeutic use of NSAIDs or steroids when no complications are present. Such therapies could be ineffective, or cause drug-related complications, prompting th...

INTRODUCTION Inflammation can be triggered by infectious, chemical and physical causes. Several fac-tors contribute to its development, such as E-, P-, L-selectin, intercellular adhesion mole-cules (ICAM-1), vascular adhesion molecules (VCAM-1), soluble mediators such as inter-leukins (IL)-1, (IL)-2, (IL)-6 and (IL)-8, as well as tumor necrosis fac...

The term Diagnosis-related Group (DRG) refers to a classification system used to assess hospital services with the aim of streamlining health care costs and improving perform-ance. The DRG system focuses on the utilization of resources, and is not concerned with the specific type of care provided to the patient. This system highlights any diseconom...

INTRODUCTION Ankylosing spondylitis [1] (AS) has a strong genetic association, with 90% of patients affected expressing the Histocompatibility Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) B27 genotype. How-ever, this positivity is not always present in AS: in fact, HLA-B27 negativity in a typical case of AS significantly increases the likelihood of the patient also bei...

Background. The incidence of fractures in the trochanteric area has risen with the increasing numbers of elderly persons with osteoporosis. The imperative goals of treatment are early mobilization by means of stable fixation using as minimally invasive a procedure as possible. Nowadays, there is an increasing interest in intra - medullary nailing,...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the gastrointestinal tract. The major types of IBD are Lesniowski-Crohn's disease (L-CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) sometimes presents with arthritic manifestations. The peripheral arthritis is a problem for the orthopaedist and the physiatr...

High energy trauma is often responsible for acute bleeding. Long bone and pelvis fractures are correlated with increased blood loss. Hypovolaemia could become a life threatening complication especially in elderly patients because of the reduced physiological response. Furthermore it could compromise the course of associated morbidities. Haemorrage...

Introduction Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic in-flammatory disorder of unknown cause involving gastrointestinal tract. UC and CD are a group of idiopathic chronic inflammatory disorders, involving the small and the large intestine. The CD involves all part of digestive tract (from mouth to anus) discontinuously (1). The UC involves mo...

Background. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the gastroin-testinal tract. The major types of IBD are Lesniowski-Crohn's disease (L-CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) sometimes presents with arthritic manifestations. The peripheral arthritis is a problem for the orthopaedist and...

Introduction This study reviews the latest international bibliogra-phy to underline the close causal relationship that exists between the intestinal microbial flora and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD, i.e.: Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis), in conjunction with other extra-intestinal diseases (1). Various morbid conditions of the digestive...

Introduction Crohn's disease (CD) is an inflammatory disease of the digestive system which may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus. Most commonly, the inflammation occurs in the small intestine and in the colon with sta-ble disease location over the years. Rectal spar-ing is a typical but not constant feature of CD. Fur...

Introduction The abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) can be considered as the result of hypoperfusion and ischemia of intra-abdominal viscera and subse-quent multiple organ failure (MOF) caused by raised intra-abdominal pressure (IAP). Various mechanism and systems are interested by this syndrome: the lung, the venous return, the perfu-sion in the...

Abstract: Introduction: Crohn's disease (CD) is a form of inflammatory bowel disease, which may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, causing a wide variety of symptoms. The arthritis is counted as the worst side effect of CD. The orthopaedic manifestations of CD are: peripheral arthritis, spondylitis, sacroiliitis. Mate...

The fractures of the extremity distal of the radius are the most common bone lesions of the superior extremity of the body, representing the 17% of the fractures treated in First Aid. The most greater cause of these fractures is the accidental fall with wide hand assumed to protection of the body. All the ages are interested but above all the most...

The "frozen shoulder", also know as adhesive capsulitis, is the most peculiar among the pathologies that can interest the shoulder. It has been described as a process that involves thickening and contracture of the capsule surrounding the shoulder joint. Frozen shoulder causes stiffness and pain in the shoulder, which reduces normal movement in the...

La sostituzione protesica dell’anca è il risultato di un connubio inscidibile tra ingegneriabiomeccanica e chirurgia ortopedica; è, insomma, la espressione massima della evoluzionesia della tecnica chirurgica, sia della tribologia dei materiali. Oggi i le protesi a disposizionedell’ortopedico sono molte e differenti per disegno, materiale, rivestim...