Arthroplasty News

• High Tibial Osteotomy May Reduce Need for Total Knee Replacement Many patients with knee osteoarthritis who undergo high tibial osteotomy may not require a total knee replacement for at least a decade, a Canadian study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, February 03, 2021
• Trashed on the Internet? The Newer Way to Deal With It Most physicians have had the unpleasant experience of being the subject of a nasty online review. But the new attitude is to use those reviews as a way to market your practice in a positive way.
  Medscape Medical News, February 02, 2021
• Little Evidence of Benefit With Short-Term Weight Loss Before Knee Replacement Short-term weight loss before a total knee replacement is unlikely to reduce surgical risk or improve outcomes and might contribute to development of sarcopenic obesity, a critical review suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 22, 2021
• Racial Disparities in Common Surgeries Persist in the United States Despite national initiatives aimed at reducing racial disparities in healthcare, these disparities persist in patients undergoing major surgical procedures in the United States, a new study indicates.
  Reuters Health Information, January 15, 2021
• Could an Osteoporosis Drug Reduce Need for Hip Revision Surgery? Denosumab, widely used to treat osteoporosis, may reduce the need for revision surgery due to aseptic loosening of the prosthesis in patients with osteolysis following a hip replacement.
  Medscape Medical News, January 14, 2021
• Hospital Prices Just Got a Lot More Transparent Hospitals face the new year with requirements to post price information they have long sought to obscure: the actual prices negotiated with insurers and the discounts they offer cash-paying customers.
  Kaiser Health News, January 06, 2021
• Hospital Volumes Start to Fall Again, Even as COVID-19 Soars But the decline in admissions and in observation and ED visits is nowhere near as large as last spring; some nonurgent non-COVID patients are being turned away.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2020
• Real Acupuncture Beat Sham for Osteoarthritis Knee Pain Electro-acupuncture resulted in significant improvement in pain and function, compared with sham acupuncture, in a randomized trial of more than 400 adults with knee OA.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020
• ACR 2020 Warfarin Use Linked to Knee and Hip Replacement in OA Patients Patients who take vitamin K antagonist warfarin to prevent thromboembolic events are significantly more likely to require knee or hip replacement surgery than those who take direct oral anticoagulants.
  Medscape Medical News, November 08, 2020
• Medicare Fines Hospitals for Too Many Readmissions Nearly half the nation's hospitals will get lower payments for all Medicare patients because of their history of readmitting patients, federal records show.
  Kaiser Health News, November 02, 2020
• After Total Joint Replacement, Amateur Golfers Play More Often Amateur golfers who have a total joint replacement are able to play more frequently than they did before surgery, though their golf handicap suffers slightly, according to a survey and database study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 23, 2020
• Pandemic Hampers Reopening of Joint Replacement Gold Mine Revenue losses at hospitals and outpatient surgery centers may have exceeded $5 billion from canceled knee and hip replacements alone during a roughly 2-month hiatus on elective procedures in 2020.
  Kaiser Health News, August 10, 2020
• Interleukin-1-Beta Blockade May Slow Progression of Osteoarthritis Interleukin-1-beta is a key player in the osteoarthritis inflammatory process and inhibiting it may help slow the disease process, according to an exploratory analysis of data from the CANTOS trial.
  Reuters Health Information, August 03, 2020
• EULAR 2020 EULAR Gives Pointers on Intra-Articular Injection Best Practices Rheumatologists, orthopedic surgeons, radiologists, nuclear medicine specialists, among others, as well as patients were brought together to ensure that the best advice could be given.
  Medscape Medical News, June 26, 2020
• CMS Modifies Policies, Timelines for Alternative Payment Models Changes are designed to help providers and ACOs cope with the COVID-19 pandemic; Next Generation ACO program extended for a year.
  Medscape Medical News, June 04, 2020
• AAOS 2020 CMS Joint Replacement Rules Debated, Comment Period Extended Revisions to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rules for joint replacement surgery will change the way surgeons bill knee and hip replacements, but COVID-19 is delaying the process.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2020
• Cortisone Shots Less Effective Than PT for Arthritis-Related Knee Pain People with stiff and aching knees due to arthritis get better relief from physical therapy than from cortisone injections, according to a one-year military study comparing the two treatments.
  Reuters Health Information, April 08, 2020
• ACC 2020 PRONOMOS: Rivaroxaban Bests Enoxaparin for VTE Prophylaxis New trial results show rivaroxaban was not only noninferior but superior to enoxaparin in reducing venous thromboembolism after nonmajor orthopedic surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, March 29, 2020
• Surgical Approach Tied to Risk in Hip Replacement For patients who require a total hip arthroplasty, the anterior approach may be riskier than the posterior or lateral approaches.
  Medscape Medical News, March 23, 2020
• Statins Linked to Reduced Likelihood of Joint Replacement High-intensity statins are associated with a lower risk of joint replacement, new findings show.
  Reuters Health Information, March 12, 2020