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Prophylaxis Of Dvt With Enoxaparin In Patients Undergoing Total Knee Replacement, Abid Ullah Khan Niazi, Masood Umer, Mohammad Umar
Prophylaxis Of Dvt With Enoxaparin In Patients Undergoing Total Knee Replacement, Abid Ullah Khan Niazi, Masood Umer, Mohammad Umar
Section of Orthopaedic Surgery
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the low molecular weight heparin as prophylaxis against thromboembolism following total knee replacement surgery.
Methods: Post-operative bilateral lower extremity colour duplex scan was performed on 55 patients subjected to total knew arthroplasty. The scan was performed 7 days after surgery for detection of DVT. All patients were given Enoxaparin 40mg subcutaneous daily for 2 weeks as prophylaxis against DVT.
Results: Two patients were diagnosed as DVT by color duplex scanning and both were distal but only one was asymptomatic. Another patient developed pulmonary embolism and died subsequently. The major and minor wound …
Restoration Of Glenohumeral Motion In Erb's Palsy By Tendon Transfers, Syed Kamran Ahmed, Pervaiz Mehmood Hashmi
Restoration Of Glenohumeral Motion In Erb's Palsy By Tendon Transfers, Syed Kamran Ahmed, Pervaiz Mehmood Hashmi
Section of Orthopaedic Surgery
Background: Children with erb's palsy have significant functional disability, mainly related to the shoulder. The objective of this study was to analyze the functional outcome of tendon transfers performed for restoration of shoulder motion in patients with Erb's palsy.
Methods: This descriptive case series was conducted at Aga Khan University Hospital from May 1999 to December 2003. Ten patients who had functional deficit of shoulder elevation were operated by a single surgeon. The surgical procedure; modified Sever L'Episcopo procedure was uniform in all cases. The data was collected through patient interviewing and medical records maintained through Health Information Management System …