Background The increased adoption of the internet, social media, wearable devices, e-
health services, and other technology-driven services in medicine and healthcare has led to …

Total hip arthroplasty is a cost-effective surgical procedure undertaken to relieve pain and
restore function to the arthritic hip joint. More than 1 million arthroplasties are done every …

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a cost effective and extremely successful operation. As
longevity increases, the demand for primary TKA will continue to rise. The success and …

Knee-replacement surgery is frequently done and highly successful. It relieves pain and
improves knee function in people with advanced arthritis of the joint. The most common …

Abstract Introduction In 2009, the nationwide Dutch Surgical Colorectal Audit (DSCA) was
initiated by the Association of Surgeons of the Netherlands (ASN) to monitor, evaluate and …

Background We sought is to determine the mechanism of failure among primary total knee
arthroplasties (TKAs) performed at a single high-volume institution by asking the following …

Rationale: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a heterogeneous group of acute and chronic
inflammatory and fibrotic lung diseases. Existing ILD registries have had variable findings …

The term congenital neutropenia encompasses a family of neutropenic disorders, both
permanent and intermittent, severe (< 0.5 G/l) or mild (between 0.5-1.5 G/l), which may also …

Objectives To investigate changing patterns of practice of keratoplasty in Australia, graft
survival, visual outcomes, the influence of experience, and the surgeon learning curve for …

Cardiomyopathy is a serious disorder of the heart muscle and, although rare, is a common
cause of heart failure in children, and it is also the most common cause of heart …