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Die Zahl implantierter Schulterendoprothesen nimmt in den entwickelten Industrieländern weltweit zu. Mit dem Ziel der verbesserten Patientenversorgung, der Qualitätssicherung und der Ergebniskontrolle werden w...
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In Zeiten der zunehmenden Technisierung und Digitalisierung hat die Bedeutung der translationalen Medizin zugenommen. Eine erfolgreiche Translation von der Grundlagenforschung bis zur klinischen Anwendung ist ...
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An increasing number of ankle injuries with osteochondral lesions (OCL) also include lesions of the distal tibia. Therefore, the German Cartilage Society database is used to describe and examine the characteri...
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Lateral release (LR) is an integral part of surgical correction of hallux valgus. A comparison was made between the open and minimally invasive LR techniques using a dorsal approach. The reliability and safety...
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Preexisting and treated concomitant ankle instability does not compromise patient-reported outcomes of solitary osteochondral lesions of the talus treated with matrix-induced bone marrow stimulation in the first postoperative year: data from the German Cartilage Registry (KnorpelRegister DGOU)
The purpose of this study was to compare the subjective ankle function within the first year following matrix-induced bone marrow stimulation (M-BMS) of patients with a solitary osteochondral lesion of the tal...
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Concomitant ankle instability has a negative impact on the quality of life in patients with osteochondral lesions of the talus: data from the German Cartilage Registry (KnorpelRegister DGOU)
The purpose of this study was to compare patients with osteochondral lesions of the talus (OCLT) with and without concomitant chronic ankle instability (CAI).
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Recordings of aortic root movement represent one of the first accomplishments of ultrasound in medicine and mark the beginning of functional cardiac imaging. However, the underlying mechanism is not completely...
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Correction to: Parameters influencing complaints and joint function in patients with osteochondral lesions of the ankle—an investigation based on data from the German Cartilage Registry (KnorpelRegister DGOU)
The original version of this article contained an error.
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Systolic pulmonary artery pressure assessed during routine exercise Doppler echocardiography: insights of a real-world setting in patients with elevated pulmonary pressures
Pulmonary hypertension is a marker of disease severity. Exercise Doppler echocardiography (EDE) has proven to be feasible and reliable to assess pulmonary pressure. Increase in systolic pulmonary artery pressu...
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Open AccessHuman osteochondritis dissecans fragment-derived chondrocyte characteristics ex vivo, after monolayer expansion-induced de-differentiation, and after re-differentiation in alginate bead culture
Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) is a therapy for articular cartilage and osteochondral lesions that relies on notch- or trochlea-derived primary chondrocytes. An alternative cell source for ACI could...
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We analysed hyaline cartilage of human knee and ankle joints for collagen and proteoglycan turnover in order to find differences in the metabolism and biochemical content of the extracellular matrix that could...
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Parameters influencing complaints and joint function in patients with osteochondral lesions of the ankle—an investigation based on data from the German Cartilage Registry (KnorpelRegister DGOU)
Patients with osteochondral lesions of the ankle represent a heterogeneous population with traumatic, posttraumatic and idiopathic forms of this pathology, where the etiology of the idiopathic form is principa...
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Open AccessReconstruction of the coracoacromial ligament during a modified Latarjet procedure: a case series
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Myocardial deformation measurement is superior to left ventricular ejection fraction in identifying early changes in myocardial contractility and prediction of cardiovascular outcome. The lack of standardizat...
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