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Patients’ Views on Total Joint Replacement in the UK
Approximately 70,000 hip and knee procedures are performed in English hospitals each year [1], causing lengthy waiting lists for total joint replacements (TJR) within the National Health Service (NHS). Most pa...
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Population Requirements for Primary Hip-Replacement Surgery in England
The debate about health care rationing, in terms of both its justification and mechanism, is conducted largely in the absence of data. The relevant literature mainly consists of assertion, exploration of ethic...
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Trends in Hip Replacement Rates
It has been shown that there is international variation in the rates of total hip replacement (THR), partly depending on differences in prevalence and incidence of osteoarthritis but also in part related to th...
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Oral and Poster Papers Submitted for Presentation at the 5th Congress of the EUGMS “Geriatric Medicine in a Time of Generational Shift September 3–6, 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark
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The 3rd annual congress of the European society of skeletal radiology
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Irish association of rheumatology & rehabilitation
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A DNA polymorphism of an apoprotein gene associates with the hypertriglyceridaemia of primary gout
Genomic hybridization analysis has been used to investigate allelic frequencies of the genes coding for the four major apoproteins of high density lipoprotein (HDL); apoproteins AI, AII, CII and CIII, in a gro...
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Art, history and the antiquity of rheumatic diseases
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International Symposium Art, History and Antiquity of Rheumatic Diseases
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Sixth Eular Workshop on Rheumatology Research
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Pyrophosphate-induced inflammation: An in vivo study of the interrelationship of intracellular cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP
The changes in leucocyte concentrations of cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP were monitored during pyrophosphate-induced pleurisy in rats. A classical ‘Yin Yang’ relationship was demonstrated.
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Anti-Inflammatory models in animals
The pleural cavity of rats and guinea-pigs has been utilized to study the inflammatory response to immediate hypersensitivity, delayed hypersensitivity, calcium pyrophosphate and carrageenan. The mediators wil...