The majority of elderly nursing home patients who undergo surgical or endovascular revascularization for lower-extremity PAD are unlikely to have improvements in function, and a high percentage will ...

An important patient care skill is the ability to rapidly immobilize a suspected lower extremity fracture. Many lower extremity fractures are particularly emergent, both due to the forces involved in ...

Only a few U.S. nursing home residents who undergo lower extremity revascularization procedures are alive and ambulatory a year after surgery, according to UCSF researchers, and most patients still ...

Traumatologists who conducted a multicenter trial into closing high-risk lower extremity fractures with standard dressings vs. negative-pressure wound therapy found the vacuum-assisted closure ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed older age is associated with increased pulmonary embolism risk in patients with lower extremity ...

Dynapaenia was associated with a greater risk of lower extremity (ankle and leg) fractures in women with obesity, irrespective of bone mineral density. Dynapaenia neutralised the protective effects of ...

Clinical guidelines recommend low-molecular-weight heparin for thromboprophylaxis in patients with fractures, but trials of its effectiveness as compared with aspirin are lacking. In this pragmatic, ...

A collaboration between nursing home staff and hospital clinicians reduced readmission and mortality rates and improved quality of life for residents with hip fracture, a new study from Denmark finds.

FATIGUE fracture, synonymously called march fracture, is a condition most commonly seen in recruits who are suddenly subjected to unaccustomed physical training. This entity was initially recorded by ...