Arthroplasty

New arthroplasty research has been reported by G. Bisignani et al

Published in Cardiovascular Week, April 7th, 2008

"Objectives Cardiopulmonary complications are well known in orthopaedic surgery. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relevance and the origin of embolization, to correlate the event with the procedure and to establish the clinical relevance of this phenomenon," scientists in Italy report.

" We performed transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) on 40 patients during total hip arthroplasty, 19 males and 21 females, average age 66 years, with a negative medical history for heart and lung diseases, who underwent an operation for hip prosthesis (22 patients) or surgery for medial fracture (18 patients). Of these, 22 patients received a cemented prosthesis and 18...

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Source: Cardiovascular Week (2008-04-07)

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