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One-stage exchange: it all began here.

Based on the first implementation of mixing antibiotics into bone cement in the 1970s, the Endo-Klinik has used one stage exchange for prosthetic joint infection (PJI) in over 85% of cases. Looking carefully at current literature and guidelines for PJI treatment, there is no clear evidence that a two stage procedure has a higher success rate than a one-stage approach. A cemented one-stage excha...

Musculoskeletal Modelling: How It Began, What It Offers, and Where It Is Heading

MOTIVATION Musculoskeletal diseases in 2004 cost the United States economy more than $849 billion [1] (7.7% of GDP) and places great demands on healthcare systems worldwide. Musculoskeletal modelling and simulation has a tremendous potential to improve patient care and reduce treatment costs by elucidating cause and effect relationships related to neurological and musculoskeletal impairments an...

ProCoS: How It All Began - as Seen from Denmark

I reminisce over an episode at the 9–13 November 1987 IFIP WG2.3 meeting at Château du Pont d’Oye in Belgium — and at what followed. I had given, at an IFIP WG2.3 meeting, in Belgium, a half hour presentation of how we, in Denmark, had developed a compiler for the full Ada programming language. My presentation had evolved around a single slide showing boxes and arrows between these, all properl...

How it all began: from conception to birth to early adulthood.

In honour of this 20th anniversary volume, Brian Johnston asked me—as the founding editor—to write something about the origins of the journal. I agreed, providing Mike Hayes and Alex Williamson would coauthor. As you will learn from the discussion below, both played a pivotal role in the journal’s creation and with that came the birth of our enduring friendships. I know they both share my pride...

Bringing It All Together: Bedside to Bench and Back Again.