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Objective To investigate the effect of medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) surgery on knee biomechanics during stair ascent. Methods Nine osteoarthritis patients who received fixed-bearing medial UKA participated in this study. All patients completed pre-surgical (3 weeks before UKA surgery) and post-surgical ［(7±2) months after UKA surgery］ test. Their synchronized biplane radiographs during stair ascent were collected. Motion of the femur, tibia, and implants were tracked using an automated volumetric model-based tracking process that matched subject-specific 3D models of the bones and prostheses to the biplane radiographs with sub-millimeter accuracy. Anatomic coordinate systems were created within the femur and tibia and used to calculate tibiofemoral kinematics. Additional outcome measures included the center of contact in the medial and lateral compartments, and the lateral compartment dynamic joint space. Results The UKA knee was in 4.8° varus compared with the pre-surgical contralateral knee. The post-surgical UKA knee was in 3.1°valgus compared with the pre-surgical knee. The post-surgical UKA knee was 4.4° externally rotated compared with the pre-surgical contralateral knee. However, the medial tibia contact center of the UKA knee moved posteriorly 2.5 mm compared with that of the contralateral knee (P0.05). Conclusions UKA can effectively improve varus of the knee joint and restore biomechanical characteristics of UKA knee rotation, without affecting lateral compartment joint space. However, changes are found in contact center of the medial tibia compartment of the UKA knee after surgery.
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Objective:Exploring the risk factors of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury in thyroid surgery.Methods:The hundred and sixteen patients undergoing secondary thyroid surgery from January 2016 to January 2019 were selected in the general surgery department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University. The patients were divided into an injury group ( n=20) and a control group ( n=296) according to whether the recurrent laryngeal nerve injury occurred after the secondary operation. SPSS 23.0 was used to perform univariate analysis and multivariate regression analysis. Results:The total injury rate of recurrent laryngeal nerve in secondary thyroid surgery was 6.33% (20/316). In the univariate analysis, the size of the thyroid, the first operation, the interval between two operations, the tumor aggressiveness, the secondary operation, and whether nerve monitoringa were statistically significant in the injury group and the control group( χ2=1.495, 1.503, 1.628, 1.299, 1.938, 1.262, P<0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that the size of the thyroid gland ( OR=4.962, P=0.001), the first operation ( OR=12.296, P=0.002), the interval between two operations ( OR=3.590, P=0.025) and the secondary operation ( OR=2.319, P=0.002) were an independent risk factors for recurrent laryngeal nerve injury in secondary thyroid surgery. Conclusions:Secondary thyroid surgery is more likely to cause recurrent laryngeal nerve damage. For the thyroid disease with a high risk of recurrence, total thyroidectomy should be selected for the first surgery to to avoid the risk of complications caused by secondary surgery; For some complicated secondary surgery patients, the use of recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring technology during operation can minimize the recurrent laryngeal nerve injury and improve the patient′s postoperative quality of life.
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Liver is the largest parenchymal organ in human body and the most commonly injured organ in abdomen,accounting for 20％ of all abdominal traumas.Traumatic liver rupture can bring about intra-abdominal hemorrhage,peritoneal irritation and hemorrhagic shock.If the liver trauma takes place in peri-hepatic veins or multiple-organ injury,mortality rate is increased.In recent years,with more studies on liver injury and the rapid development of modern surgical techniques as well as the equipments,the strategies and means of liver trauma treatment have greatly changed.These changes include liver trauma cases with nonoperative treatment have been increased gradually,the improvement of damage control packing,the application of fast-track surgery concept in liver trauma,etc.