BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In some patients, for unknown reasons pain persists after joint replacement, especially in the knee. We determined the prevalence of persistent pain following primary hip or knee replacement and its association with disorders of glucose metabolism, metabolic syndrome (MetS), and obesity. PATIENTS AND METHODS The incidence of pain in the operated joint was surveyed 1-2 y...

The perioperative risk of surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with severe stenosis and previous coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is increased. Transcatheter implantation (TAVI) represents an alternative. We report a case indication for native patient prior quadruple surgery. underwent 29-mm Corevalve Evolut R by left femoral catheterization (TAVI), under general anesthesia appro...

Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant. Hip replacement surgery can be performed as a total replacement or a hemi (half) replacement. This can relieve pain, help hip joint work better, and improve walking and other movements. Now, hip replacement surgery is performed over 300,000 times each year in the U.S. to repair severe hip damage ...

The simultaneous replacement transformation operation, is here deened and studied wrt normal programs. We give applicability conditions able to ensure the correctness of the operation wrt the set of logical consequences of the completed database. We consider separately the cases in which the underlying language is innnite and nite; in this latter case we also distinguish according to the kind o...

Relatively few patients develop such severe degenerative temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disease that they require total joint replacement. Current indications include those conditions involving condylar bone loss such as degenerative (osteoarthritis) or inflammatory joint disease (ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid, and psoriatic). Ankylosis of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) secondary to anky...