INTRODUCTION Patients with lumbar spine disease sometimes complain of nocturnal leg cramps. We sought to investigate the effectiveness of blocking the medial branch of the deep peroneal nerve as treatment for nocturnal leg cramps after spinal surgery for lumbar spine disease. METHODS We evaluated 66 postoperative patients in this prospective comparative study of a group of patients with a ner...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Medial branch blocks are an important tool for the diagnosis of facet joint arthropathy. The most commonly used technique involves multiple needle placements, one for each nerve blocked. This multiple needle technique may require a large amount of local anesthetic for anesthetizing the skin, thereby increasing the rate of false-positive blocks. TECHNIQUE Diagnostic l...

variations in arterial anatomy are less frequent, contrary to the venous system, and most of these variations affect visceral arteries. variations in the brachial artery are the most frequently reported and so far a minimum of six different patterns have been described. the most common of these patterns is the superficial brachial artery, which lies superficially to the median nerve. much less ...

background: several echocardiographic markers have been introduced to assess the left ventricular (lv) mechanical dyssynchrony. we studied dyssynchrony markers and the latest lv activation site in heart failure patients with and without left bundle branch block (lbbb). methods: conventional echocardiography and tissue velocity imaging were performed for 78 patients (lv ejection fraction ≤ 35%),...

conclusions ipbsn injury is a common complication following arthroscopically-assisted aclr and, ifn not significant, oblique direction of the incision is associated with decreasedn incidence of the injury. ipbsn injury has no effect on the function but because of then disturbance with patients' satisfaction, authors believe the oblique incision isn preferable to avoid the nerve injury during me...

background: isolated right bundle branch block (rbbb) is a common finding in the general population. the atrioventricular node (avn) artery contributes to the blood supply of the right bundle branch. our hypothesis was that the anatomy of the avn artery and the pattern of dominancy differ between subjects with and without rbbb. methods: w e retrospectively studied the coronary angiography of 92...

BACKGROUND Persistent neck pain is a common problem after surgery of the cervical spine. No therapy recommendation exists for these patients. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine if a therapeutic medial branch block is a rational treatment for patients with postoperative neck pain after cervical spine operations. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective practice audit. SETTING Review ...