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Hemarthrosis Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

By Dr Arun Pal Singh

Hemarthrosis causes and types

Hemarthrosis is a medical term for bleeding into the joint cavity. It literally means blood in the joint. Acute hemarthrosis can occur with trauma or as a complication of blood disorders such as hemophilia. The most common joints affected are the knees, ankles, and elbows but other joints can be affected as well. With management, a joint […]

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Ollier Disease – Causes, Presentation and Treatment

By Dr Arun Pal Singh

Enchondromatosis or ollier disease upper limb

Ollier’s disease is a rare, nonhereditary skeletal disorder characterized by a multifocal intramedullary proliferation of hypercellular dysplastic cartilage. It is a type of enchondromatosis. Maffucci’s syndrome is another type of enchondromatosis where the skeletal lesions are accompanied by hemangiomas of skin, soft tissu, and viscera. Enchondromatosis represents a distinct developmental disorder of enchondral ossification and […]

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Rheumatoid Arthritis – Diagnosis and Treatment

By Dr Arun Pal Singh

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Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease of unknown cause triggered by an autoimmune reaction leading to synovial membrane hypertrophy and chronic joint inflammation often with extra-articular manifestations. The trigger for the reaction could be external and is thought to occur in genetically susceptible individuals. Wrist and joints are most commonly involved and the […]

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Compartment Syndrome Presentation and Treatment

By Dr Arun Pal Singh

Pathophysiology of compartment Syndrome

Compartment syndrome is a condition in which there is an increased pressure within a limited space which compromises tissue circulation and function. Compartment syndromes can be acute, chronic. Acute compartment syndromes generally occur following a trauma and results in significant elevation of intracompartmental pressures. For example fracture of proximal tibia are frequently associated with compartment […]

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Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita

By Dr Arun Pal Singh

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Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita is a congenital deformity affecting the extremities, characterized by marked muscular wasting the loss of mass, increased fibrous tissue around the joints, and therefore disturbance of mobility and various characteristic deformities. Bone changes are usually secondary to the overlying soft tissue changes, as well as to the changes which have taken place […]

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Hypophosphatasia Presentation and Treatment

By Dr Arun Pal Singh

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Hypophosphatasia is an inherited disorder of defect in alkaline phosphatase coding gene that affects the development of bones and teeth because mineralization is disrupted.   It was described initially by Rathbun in 1948. Hypophosphatasia has got varied presentation. The symptoms can appear anywhere from before birth to adulthood Severe forms of hypophosphatasia affect an estimated […]

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Hypophosphatemic Rickets

By Dr Arun Pal Singh

Lab Study Profiles of Different Types of Rickets

Hypophosphatemic rickets is a hereditary form of rickets characterized by low serum phosphate levels and resistance to treatment with ultraviolet radiation or vitamin D ingestion. This disorder was initially called vitamin D resistant rickets, is now called hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets because the primary problem is phosphate wasting rather than true vitamin D resistance. [Read in […]

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Renal Rickets

By Dr Arun Pal Singh

Approach to renal rickets

Renal rickets is the term used for rickets where the primary cause is not vitamin D deficiency but a renal disease leading to events that cause rickets or osteomalacia. [More about rickets] [More on Osteomalacia] Renal rickets is known by various names. Renal dwarfism, renal pseudorickets, and renal osteitis fibrosa cystica are forms of renal-caused […]

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Rickets Causes and Treatment

By Dr Arun Pal Singh

clinical features of rickets

Rickets is a condition where there is a defect in mineralization of the osteoid matrix caused by inadequate calcium and phosphate. If the defect occurs before the closure of the physis, it is known as rickets. The same defect when occurs after physeal closure is called osteomalacia Rickets or rachitis is a disease of infancy and […]

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Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism Presentation and Treatment

By Dr Arun Pal Singh

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Tertiary hyperparathyroidism is state of hyperparathyroidism characterized by excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone after long-standing secondary hyperparathyroidism, even after the correction of the cause of hyperparathyroidism. The term is also used in patients who have undergone kidney transplants but their parathyroid function does not return to normal. The cause is the same. The parathyroid glands […]

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failed back surgery syndrome

Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

Failed back surgery syndrome refers specifically to persistent or recurrent, chronic debilitating low back pain after one or more surgical procedures on the lumbosacral spine, such as a discectomy, laminectomy, and lumbosacral fusion. A spine surgery in the lumbar region  is mainly done for two causes To decompress a nerve root To stabilize a painful […]

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Phalanx Fractures of Hand [The Broken Fingers]

Phalanx fractures are common hand injuries. Phalanges are small long bones of the hand that make our fingers and thumb. A similar arrangement of bones is also found in toes and those bones are also called phalanges. Each finger is formed by three phalanges. Proximal phalanx Middle phalanx Distal phalanx Thumb has only two phalanges, […]

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Interfragmentary Screw or Lag Screw Fixation

Interfragmentary screw or lag screw is used in fixation of spiral or oblique fractures of the shaft of a bone. Interfragmentary screw or lag screw is used as an adjunct to plating and often as initial fixation holder so as to the safe and secure application of a plate in a neutral mode in the […]

pigmented villonodular synovitis

Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis

Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis is a locally aggressive neoplastic synovial disease affecting joints, bursae, and tendon sheaths characterized by joint effusions, synovial thickening, and bony erosions. Usually, pigmented villonodular synovitis affects a single joint [monoarticular presentation]. Polyarticular cases are rare and more likely in children. Usually, patients between 30 and 40 years old are affected. However, […]

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Prolotherapy – Types, Mechanism and Uses

What is Prolotherapy? Prolotherapy is a procedure where the non-pharmacological and non-active irritant solution is injected into the body for the purpose of strengthening weakened connective tissue and alleviating musculoskeletal pain. Prolotherapy is claimed to repair the weakened sites and produce new fibrous tissues. Other names are Proliferation therapy Regenerative injection therapy Proliferative injection therapy […]

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Ischial Bursitis or Ishiogluteal Bursitis

Ischial bursitis or ischiogluteal bursitis is inflammation of ischiogluteal bursa and is a cause of pain in the buttock. Ischiogluteal bursa is located between the ischial tuberosity and tendon of hamstring muscles at ischial tuberosity. Hamstring muscles during activity produce tension to the hamstring tendon causing friction on the ischiogluteal bursa. During sitting the weight […]

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Undifferentiated Spondyloarthropathy

Undifferentiated Spondyloarthropathy is a term used to describe the condition where presentation does not meet the criteria for a definitive diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis or related disease. Undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy may represent an early phase or incomplete form of ankylosing spondylitis or another spondyloarthropathy. However, more recent data suggest that these patients may represent a distinct […]

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