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US MUSCULOSKELETAL REVIEW - VOLUME 3 - ISSUE I |
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Contents:
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Foreword
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Foreword
Bert R Mandelbaum, MD
President, International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS)
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Surgical Hemostasis
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Recombinant Therapies Utilized in the Operating Room
Kevin N Foster, MD, MBA, FACS1 and Paul D Bishop, PhD2
1. The Arizona Burn Center, Maricopa Integrated Health Systems, Phoenix;
2. ZymoGenetics, Inc., Seattle
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Spine
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Management of Discogenic Low-back Pain with a Non-surgical Decompression System (DRX9000™)—Case Report
Joe Pergolizzi, MD,1 Terry Yochum, DC, DACBR,2 Frank Florio, DC,3 Charlotte Richmond, PhD4 and Brian S McCain, DC5
1. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
2. Director, Rocky Mountain Chiropractic Radiological Center;
3. Director of Clinical Research, Axiom Worldwide, LLC;
4. Director of Clinical Research, NEMA Research Inc, Miami Beach;
5. Chief Administrator, Back in Action Spine and Health Centers
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Lumbar Disc Herniation Surgery and Gender-related Differences
Björn Strömqvist, MD,1 M Ahmad2 F Strömqvist, MD,2 C Hildingsson, MD2 and B Jönsson1
1. Department of Orthopaedics, Lund University Hospital;
2. Department of Orthopaedics, Norrland’s University Hospital Umeå
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Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Spine Surgery
Jeffrey C Wang, MD and Joseph Kim, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
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Shoulder
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Current Challenges in Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty
David N Collins, MD
Arkansas Specialty Orthopaedics, Little Rock
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Osteoporosis
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Osteoporotic Distal Radius Fractures
Andrew Jawa, MD,1 Chaitanya S Mudgal, MD2 and Jesse B Jupiter, MD3
1. Hand and Upper Extremity Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital;
2. Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, and Hand and Upper Extremity Service, Massachusetts General Hospital;
3. Hansjorg Wyss/AO Professor, and Chief, Hand and Upper Extremity Service, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Rheumatoid Arthritis
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The Efficacy of Rituximab Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Yannick Allanore, MD
Assistant Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology A, Cochin Hospital, Paris
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Mucopolysaccharidosis Type 1
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Rheumatological Manifestations Are Key in the Early Diagnosis of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I
Bernhard Manger, MD
Attending Physician, Outpatient Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology,
Department of Medicine III, Erlangen Medical School
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Connective Tissue Disease
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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Scleroderma and Other Connective Tissue Diseases
Janet Pope, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Professor of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine, University of Western Ontario
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
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Current Strategies for the Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Rafah Salloum, MD and Timothy B Niewold, MD
Section of Rheumatology, University of Chicago
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Osteoarthritis
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Proteinase-activated Receptor-2—A New and Attractive Therapeutic Target for Osteoarthritis
Christelle Boileau, PhD, Nathalie Amiable, MSc, Jean-Pierre Pelletier, MD and Johanne Martel-Pelletier, PhD
Osteoarthritis Research Unit, Notre-Dame Hospital, University of Montréal Hospital Center
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Cartilage
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Epigenetics and Cartilage Regulation
Teruhito Yoshitaka, MD, PhD1 and Hiroshi Asahara, MD, PhD1,2
1. Department of Systems Biomedicine, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo;
2. Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla
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Molecular Genetics of Angiogenesis in Chondrosarcoma
Richard M Terek, MD, Xiaojuan Sun, MD, PhD and Scott Allen, MD
1. Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University;
2. Research Associate, Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Rhode Island Hospital;
3. East Texas Orthopaedics, Mount Pleasant
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The International Cartilage Repair Society—A Decade or a Lifetime in Articular Cartilage Repair
Simon Görtz, MD,1 Matts Brittberg, MD,2 Bert Mandelbaum, MD3 and William D Bugbee, MD1
1. University of California, San Diego;
2. Gothenburg University;
3. President, International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS)
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Skeletal Functionality
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Genetic Basis of Skeletal Functionality and Fragility
Karl J Jepsen, PhD
Associate Professor, Leni and Peter W May Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Imaging and Navigation
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Characterization of Skeletal Muscle Elasticity Using Magnetic Resonance Elastography
Qingshan Chen, MS,1 Armando Manduca, PhD2 and Kai-Nan An, PhD2
1. Biomechanics Laboratory, Division of Orthopaedic Research, Mayo Clinic;
2. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic
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Diary
Technical Articles
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