As a result of rapid advances in the field of spinal instrumentation, the surgeon today has at his disposal many well-designed implants, such as pedicle screws, hooks, rods, plates, and interbody fusion devices. Many of these implants are modular and are used in combination, such as hooks and screws attached to rods, allowing the surgeon flexibility in selecting the appropriate implants to meet...

BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is uncommonly complicated by postoperative infections, the causes of which are rarely identified. HYPOTHESIS/PURPOSE The goal of this study was to characterize the relationship between methodological sterilization failure and ACL reconstruction infection at an army medical center. STUDY DESIGN Case series. METHODS Demographic, cli...

Recent developments in instrumentation and bioinformatics show that the technique of synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy can provide novel information on protein secondary structures and folding motifs, and has the potential to play an important role in structural genomics studies, both as a means of target selection and as a high-throughput, low-sample-requiring screening met...

Aim: To understand the anesthesia management in a case of an adverse cardiac outcome intra-operativelyBackground: Peri-operative Myocardial Infarction (PMI) is associated with very high rate morbidity and mortality, especially patients posted for high-risk surgery unknown status. We report acute myocardial infarction patient without risk factors during decompression instrumentation spine. Case ...

In decades of technical developments after the first surgical corrections of spinal deformities, the set of devices, techniques, and tools available to the surgeons has widened dramatically. Nevertheless, the rate of complications due to mechanical failure of the fixation or the instrumentation remains rather high. Indeed, basic and clinical research about the principles of deformity correction...

OBJECTIVE Infectious spondylitis is mostly managed by appropriate antibiotic treatment options, and some patients may require surgical interventions. However, surgical interventions that use spinal instrumentation to correct the mechanical instability may be associated with the risk of an increase in the recurrence rate. In this study, we investigated whether spinal instrumentation effects on r...

We present the INTERASPECT instrumentation framework for GCC, a widely used compiler infrastructure. The addition of plug-in support in the latest release of GCC makes it an attractive platform for runtime instrumentation, as GCC plug-ins can directly add instrumentation by transforming the compiler’s intermediate representation. Such transformations, however, require expert knowledge of GCC in...

BACKGROUND Lumbar spinal stenosis is the most common reason for spinal surgery in elderly patients. However, the surgical management of spinal stenosis is controversial. The aim of this review was to list aspects a surgeon considers when choosing a specific type of treatment. METHODS Appraisal of arguments reported in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) included in systematic reviews publishe...