Arthroscopic All-Inside Repair Using the Meniscus Arrow: Long-term Clinical Follow-up of 113 Patients

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Siebold ◽  
Carsten Dehler ◽  
Ludwig Boes ◽  
Andree Ellermann
Keyword(s):  
Meniscus Arrow

Deteriorating Outcomes after Meniscal Repair Using the Meniscus Arrow in Knees Undergoing Concurrent Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1138-1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory P. Lee ◽  
David R. Diduch
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Ligament Reconstruction ◽  
Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Meniscal Repair ◽  
Suture Repair ◽  
Meniscus Arrow ◽  
Anterior Cruciate ◽  
Inside Out

Background An increased awareness of the degenerative changes that occur in the knee after meniscectomy has led to efforts to salvage the injured meniscus. Numerous devices have been developed in an effort to provide the dual benefits of a durable meniscal repair and minimal invasiveness. Hypothesis The Meniscus Arrow is comparable to conventional inside-out suture repair in accomplishing long-term healing of meniscal tears. Study Design Case series; Level of evidence, 4. Methods This study is an extended follow-up of an original series of 32 patients withoutcomes analysis. All patients underwent meniscal repair with exclusive use of the arrow. All repairs were performed in the context of a concomitant anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Follow-up assessment included physical examination, arthrometry, the International Knee Documentation Committee instrument, and the Knee Disorders Subjective History visual analog scale. Intermediate follow-up at a mean of 2.3 years yielded a success rate of 90.6%. The mean follow-up in the present study has been extended to 6.6 years. Results The extended follow-up analysis revealed a substantial attrition in the success rate of this series of patients undergoing meniscal repair with the arrow. A 90.6% success rate at a mean follow-up of 2.3 years deteriorated to 71.4% at 6.6 years. Conclusion This study provides the longest follow-up in the literature of any of the all-inside meniscal repair implants. The Meniscus Arrow demonstrated long-term meniscal healing rates inferior to those found in the literature for inside-out suture repair techniques.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

Brief summary of Kleť photographic search programme for minor planets

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 189-192
Author(s):  
J. Tichá ◽  
M. Tichý ◽  
Z. Moravec
Keyword(s):  
Ccd Camera ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Main Belt

AbstractA long-term photographic search programme for minor planets was begun at the Kleť Observatory at the end of seventies using a 0.63-m Maksutov telescope, but with insufficient respect for long-arc follow-up astrometry. More than two thousand provisional designations were given to new Kleť discoveries. Since 1993 targeted follow-up astrometry of Kleť candidates has been performed with a 0.57-m reflector equipped with a CCD camera, and reliable orbits for many previous Kleť discoveries have been determined. The photographic programme results in more than 350 numbered minor planets credited to Kleť, one of the world's most prolific discovery sites. Nearly 50 per cent of them were numbered as a consequence of CCD follow-up observations since 1994.This brief summary describes the results of this Kleť photographic minor planet survey between 1977 and 1996. The majority of the Kleť photographic discoveries are main belt asteroids, but two Amor type asteroids and one Trojan have been found.

A comparison of two approaches to biofeedback treatment in children with recalcitrant constipation/encopresis. Long term follow up

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A397-A397
Author(s):  
M SAMERAMMAR ◽  
J CROFFIE ◽  
M PFEFFERKORN ◽  
S GUPTA ◽  
M CORKINS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Biofeedback Treatment

Endoscopic sphiecterotomy without cholecystectomy for prevention of recurrence of acute billary pancreatitis: Long-term follow-up of 73 patients

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A204-A204
Author(s):  
B GONZALEZCONDE ◽  
J VAZQUEZIGLESIAS ◽  
L LOPEZROSES ◽  
P ALONSOAGUIRRE ◽  
A LANCHO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Prevention Of Recurrence

Epidemilogical long term follow up in functional dyspepsia: Characteristics of non-responders

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A754-A755 ◽  
Author(s):  
H ALLESCHER ◽  
P ENCK ◽  
G ADLER ◽  
R DIETL ◽  
J HARTUNG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Dyspepsia ◽  
Long Term Follow Up

8: Predictors of HRQOL Duirng Long-Term Follow-Up of Men Treated for Prostate Cancer

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
George J. Huang ◽  
Natalia Sadetsky ◽  
Peter R. Carroll ◽  
David F. Penson
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Long Term Follow Up
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