Research from J.A. Key and co-researchers provides new data on tuberculosis
2007 NOV 19 -- According to a study from the United States, "John Albert Key (1890-1955; Fig. 1) was a junior medical student when he volunteered to go overseas with the Johns Hopkins Unit #18 during World War I. This decision affected his later career in two important ways. It was in France that he met the American nurse affiliated with the hospital who became Mrs." "Key, and, it was in France that he finished his medical school education and began working with patients with skeletal injuries. Following his return to the United States, he continued his postgraduate education at Massachusett's General Hospital and the Children's Hospital in Boston. His first academic position was as an instructor in applied physiology at the Harvard School of Medicine. After a short experience as an instructor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Maryland, he became the Director of Research at the Shriner's Hospital in St. Louis. This hospital and the Washington University Medical School became the axis about which his professional life revolved the rest of his life. J. Albert Key belonged to all of the important surgical and orthopedic societies and was president of the American Orthopaedic Association. He presided over the first session of the Orthopaedic Section of the Surgical Forum of the American College of Surgeons. He was a surgical scientist of the first rank and is remembered for his critical discussions at meetings. His paper describing positive pressure arthrodesis is typical of his style. It is clear and concise, and without redundancy. The operation was based on the belief that 'other things being equal, two bones will most readily unite if they are placed in contact and absolutely immobilized until union by bone has occurred.' Some of his scepticism and his reliance upon an investigative approach is revealed when he says: 'Whether or not the positive pressure also stimulates osteogenesis and union between the bones I do not know," wrote J.A. Key and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "I have attempted to answer this question in the experimental laboratory, but as yet the results are inconclusive.''." Key and colleagues published their study in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (Positive pressure in arthrodesis for tuberculosis of the knee joint. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 2007;(461):6-8). For more information, contact R.A. Brand, University of City, Center Science, Clinic Orthopedic & Related Research, 3550 Market St., Suite 220, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Publisher contact information for the journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research is: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 530 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106-3621, USA. Keywords: United States, Philadelphia, Cutaneous Tuberculosis. This article was prepared by Tuberculosis Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2007, Tuberculosis Week via NewsRx.com.
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