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Background
This article aims to present the operational recommendations adopted by the Italian national society for orthopaedic surgery, arthroscopy, and sports medicine (SIAGASCOT) in managing patients eligible to undergo elective orthopaedic surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic after the beginning of a national vaccination campaign.
Materials an...
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyse the effect of BMI on clinical outcomes of cemented fixed-bearing lateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) on a 2- to 12-year follow-up.Methods
Between January 2010 and January 2020, a total of 103 lateral UKAs were implanted. The Oxford Knee Score (OKS) and the Western Ontario and McMaster Univ...
Return to play (RTP) decisions in football are currently based on expert opinion. No consensus guideline has been published to demonstrate an evidence-based decision-making process in football (soccer). Our aim was to provide a framework for evidence-based decision-making in RTP following lower limb muscle injuries sustained in football. A 1-day co...
Recent studies have reported equivalent outcomes of arthroscopic and open shoulder stabilization. However, surgical strategy for shoulder instability is a challenging and controversial problem for surgeons that have to treat collision sport athletes. In fact, only few studies support the arthroscopic surgery for this group of patients. The aim of t...
Provide the state of the art concerning (1) biology and aetiology, (2) classification, (3) clinical assessment and (4) conservative treatment of lower limb muscle injuries (MI) in athletes. Seventy international experts with different medical backgrounds participated in the consensus conference. They discussed and approved a consensus composed of f...
Aims/hypothesis:
Upon tissue injury, peripheral sensory neurons release nociceptive factors (e.g. substance P [SP]), which exert local and systemic actions including the recruitment of bone marrow (BM)-derived haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) endowed with paracrine pro-angiogenic properties. We herein explore whether diabetic neuro...
Rationale:
The impact of diabetes mellitus on bone marrow (BM) structure is incompletely understood.
Objective:
Investigate the effect of type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) on BM microvascular and hematopoietic cell composition in patients without vascular complications.
Methods and results:
Bone samples were obtained from T2DM patients and nondi...
Clinical measurement study.
To translate and cross-culturally adapt the Western Ontario Shoulder Instability Index (WOSI) into Italian, and to evaluate its measurement properties in patients with shoulder instability secondary to a first-time traumatic anterior dislocation.
The WOSI was developed for English-speaking patients. To date, no Italian v...
Traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation is a common pathology. To inform the patient, it is therefore important to know the natural history of anterior dislocation and the long-term result of conservative treatment versus the long-term results of operative treatment. In this review article, we compare the effectiveness of various anatomical and non...
To determine the measurement properties of an Italian Version of the Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) in patients with lower extremity musculoskeletal dysfunction.
This is a prospective methodological study of repeated measures with a sample of 250 consecutive patients. Reliability, validity, and responsiveness were evaluated.
The Italian ve...
Although extracorporeal shock-wave therapy (ESWT)1 has been used extensively for treatment of nonunions of bone fractures (1), this treatment fails in many patients. Plain radiography remains the gold-standard approach for monitoring nonunion healing. Biochemical bone markers, however, may provide information regarding the effects of treatment earl...
Intra-articular ganglia of the knee are an incidental findings in magnetic resonance imaging and arthroscopy. During a 1 year nearly 745 were arthroscopically treated and 15 intra-articular soft tissue masses were found within the knee cavity. Of these, 14 were incidental and asymptomatic findings in arthroscopy performed for treatment of knee path...
