Latest Joint replacement Stories
TUCSON, Ariz., June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patients' own adult stem cells show great potential in regenerative medicine, including orthopedic applications. Stem cells isolated from bone marrow can enable bone and cartilage to heal. Once removed, the patients' cells are processed and allowed to multiply in tissue culture. Then they are injected back into the knee joint of the same patient. The meniscus of the knee can be repaired, despite its poor blood supply. Preliminary...
NEW YORK, May 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- "The number of patients in their 50s coming into my office asking for joint replacement is higher than ever," says Dr. Steven B. Haas, a knee surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. At Special Surgery, where more knee replacements and hip surgeries are performed than at any other hospital in the nation, doctors are looking at what happens when their patients go back to the sports they love. To meet the growing need, Hospital for...
A new test shows promise for detecting the early stages of a major cause of failure in joint replacement implants, so that patients can be treated and perhaps avoid additional surgery. More than 1.5 million total joint replacement operations are performed worldwide each year. While the success rate is 90 per cent, almost 10 per cent of implants fail and require additional surgery, report appears in the ACS journal Molecular Pharmaceutics.Dong Wang and colleagues at University of Nebraska...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Orthopaedic surgeon Kevin R. Stone, M.D., has performed San Francisco's first outpatient, robot-assisted knee replacement surgery. The procedure to replace the patient's patellofemoral joint took place at the San Francisco Surgery Center, an outpatient surgery center near Union Square. While robotic-joint surgery has been growing nationally, the development of techniques to enable joint replacement to be performed as an outpatient...
AUSTIN, Texas, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascension Orthopedics, Inc., a world leader in PyroCarbon orthopedic devices, announces additional implantations of the TITAN Modular Total Shoulder. The surgeries were performed by Anand Murthi, M.D. at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, MD. "I have been utilizing the TITAN Humeral Resurfacing implant for a number of years in my practice. Now that Ascension has a total shoulder option, there is one system I can utilize for many different...
The Rottenstein Law Group, which represents clients with claims stemming from the failures of defective joint replacement devices, is now evaluating cases of those who received a NexGen knee unit manufactured by Zimmer Holding, Inc. New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB) April 04, 2011 In 2003, Zimmer, a leading designer, developer, manufacturer, and marketer of orthopedic devices and other medical devices, introduced the NexGen CR-Flex Fixed Bearing Knee, a knee-replacement system designed to...
A recent St. Helena Hospital Coon Joint Replacement Institute (CJRI) seminar, held in Palm Springs, Ca, drew an audience of over 570 individuals interested in knee and hip replacement offered by CJRI, which is based in the Napa Valley, with offices in San Francisco's Marina District. Saint Helena, CA (PRWEB) March 21, 2011 A recent St. Helena Hospital Coon Joint Replacement Institute (CJRI) seminar, held on March 14, 2011, in Palm Springs, Ca, drew an audience of over 570 individuals...
Two law firms work together to review claims of Zimmer NexGen knee problems after reporting by major news and medical publications exposes claims of high premature failure rate by orthopedic surgeons St. Louis, MO (Vocus/PRWEB) March 16, 2011 The law firms of Onder, Shelton, O'Leary & Peterson and Langdon & Emison have partnered together to investigate claims of faulty and failing Zimmer NexGen Knee Replacement Systems. These two law firms have been recognized for their...
SEATTLE, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Pacific Time-US), surgeons from the Swedish Orthopedic Institute will offer people the opportunity to see a knee surgery in a way that has rarely been done before by a health-care system. Sean Toomey, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon, will repair the knee of a 70-year-old male patient, while it is streamed live online. The webcast will be moderated by orthopedic surgeon James Crutcher, M.D. The patient, identified by Dr....
BELGRADE, Mont., Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bacterin International Holdings, Inc. ("Bacterin") (OTC Bulletin Board: BIHI), a developer of revolutionary bone graft material, today announced that its recently launched OsteoSponge®SC, a highly effective subchondral bone void filler, is being successfully used by a high volume orthopedic institution, Arkansas Surgical Hospital ("ASH"). Arkansas Surgical Hospital in N Little Rock, AR, opened in 2005, is a private physician-owned...
