We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Published results showed a higher prevalence of nonunion ...

Anemia can slow or prevent fracture healing, especially in the femur and tibia, according to findings presented by Thomas F. Varecka, MD, at Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2012. When combined with anemia, ...

Using our cohort of patients, we were able to independently evaluate the validity of a previous prognostic index. This index used three variables (open fracture, presence of a fracture gap ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 18, 2007 -- Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASTM), a leading regenerative medicine company, today announced final results from a U.S. Phase I/II clinical trial designed to ...

Dr. Robert Zura, the Robert D'Ambrosia Professor and Head of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, was part of a research team that identified risk factors which may help ...

Not only may opioid use increase the risk of bone fractures, but opioids may also impair healing. The authors of a new study also question their effectiveness in controlling pain. Dr. Robert Zura, ...

2.1 Fractures are a common result of trauma, and are usually described as either closed (skin over the fracture site is intact) or open (involves an open wound). They may vary in complexity from a ...

We identified 594 potentially eligible patients from the hospital database review. Of these, 200 were included in our analysis. Patients were excluded if they had an insufficient amount of follow-up ...