Background: Few studies have explored the role of the National Health Expenditure and
macroeconomics on the utilization of total joint replacement. The economic downturn has raised …

We quantified the current and historical incidence of periprosthetic infection associated with
hip and knee arthroplasty in the United States using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, as …

The current risk of infection in contemporary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) as well as the
relative importance of risk factors remains under debate as a result of the rarity of the …

Long-term survival of total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty implants has been
investigated by Scandinavian arthroplasty registries6-8. However, in the United States, national …

HYPOTHESIS: This study examined national trends and projections of procedure volumes
and prevalence rates for shoulder and elbow arthroplasty in the United States (US). This …

Periprosthetic joint infection is one of the most challenging complications of total joint
arthroplasty. We evaluated the incidence of early-onset (less than 2 years) and late-onset (greater …

Purpose Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is currently the international standard of care for treating
degenerative and rheumatologic knee joint disease, as well as certain knee joint fractures…

The outer and inner hair cells of the mammalian cochlea perform different functions. In response
to changes in membrane potential, the cylindrical outer hair cell rapidly alters its length …

… of BMP was granted to OP-1 (rhBMP-7, Stryker Biotech, Hopkinton, MA), under a humanitarian
device exemption (HDE), for use as an alternative to autograft in recalcitrant long bone …

The Trilinos Project is an effort to facilitate the design, development, integration, and ongoing
support of mathematical software libraries within an object-oriented framework for the …