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"Although you could previously only move joints that were in the hand [as opposed to the fingers], the plastic in the legs of Barbie dolls allows patients to position fingers in different flexion," she told the Duke University Chronicle . Glenn Hostetter, the medical center prosthetics clinical supervisor, noted that the technique is an inexpensive way to provide articulation in a finger and that it will help prosthetic fingers become functional as well as cosmetic appendages.
Twenty-seven patients with unilateral infected prostheses that required prosthetic removal, plus an additional 16 patients (15 with unilateral disease) who were undergoing reimplantation surgery because of uncontrolled infection, had higher BMIs than those of the other hospitalized patients with hip OA ( P ≤ 0.008).
Over the past decade bacteria in the form of biofilms have been recognized as important causes of a variety of human infections, including infections of prosthetic devices, endocarditis, dental caries, pneumonia in cystic fibrosis, prostatitis and others [ 22 25 26 27 28 ] . Biofilms are more resistant to immune clearance mechanisms and to antibiotics compared to planktonic bacteria [ 29 30 ] . In order to develop strategies to treat and prevent infections caused by bacteria in biofilms, including otitis media with effusion, it will be important to elucidate the characteristics of bacterial pathogens as biofilms.
Previous reports have found colocalization of these molecules in areas of tissue remodeling, loosening of prosthetic joints [ 45, 46, 47], and in the cartilage-pannus junction [ 14].
That prosthetic removals were warranted for a greater proportion of males than females in our study, even though males constituted a smaller proportion of the study sample as a whole ( P < 0.01), may imply the existence of different pathogenic processes for males and females.
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