Purpose:  The objective of this study was to assess the benefits of utilizing a silicone ring tourniquet in relation to traditional pneumatic cuff tourniquets and scenarios without any tourniquet intervention. The tested hypothesis was that the clinical results could be increased after use of the silicone ring tourniquet. Methods: The st...

By Jacopo Conteduca, Damiano Longo, Alberto Casto, Giorgio Giannini, Luigi Meccariello, Igor Rausa, Giuseppe Rollo

Aim To investigate whether the use of ion resonance and bromelain-vitamin C or bromelain-vitamin C is the best to prevent ankle complications in post operative bimalleolar surgery.Methods A total of 61 patients treated with bimalleolar surgery were enrolled. The patients were divided into three groups: thefirst group (n=22) treated only with the su...

By Luigi Meccariello, Anna Iolanda Bello, Giovanni Bove, Nicola Gagliardo, D’Anna Raffaele, Luigi Matera

Aim To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) in early and late total knee arthroplasty (TKA)infections.Methods Blood tests to determine CRP levels (cut-off 10 mg/L) were conducted before surgery, at 1st day, 7th day and 15th day after surgery and at 1, 3, 6,12, 24 and 36 months. Patients had routine follow-up vi...

By Jacopo Conteduca, Marco Filipponi, Paolo Pichierri, Alberto Casto, Luigi Meccariello, Giuseppe Rollo

Aim Acute carpal tunnel syndrome (ACTS) is a well-recognized and common condition following a distal radius fracture. The aim of this study was to test deflazacort associated with Nevridol®800 or deflazacort alone in order to prevent moderate or severe ACTS after the distal radius fracture in adults.Methods Sixty-four patients suffering from ex...

By Luigi Meccariello

Aim To evaluate the case series of the patients operated with percutaneous fixation by the navigation system based on 3D fluoroscopic images, to assess the precision of a surgical implant and functional outcome of patients.Methods A retrospective study of pelvic ring fractures in a 2-year period included those treated with the use of the O-Arm 2 in...

By Gianluca Ciolli, Daniele Caviglia, Carla Vitiello, Salvatore Lucchesi, Corrado Pinelli, Domenico De Mauro, Amarildo Smakaj, Giuseppe Rovere, Luigi Meccariello, Lawrence Camarda, Giulio Maccauro, Francesco Liuzza

Aim To propose a new prognostic classification system for pelvic injuries based on a new detailed and all-encompassing evaluation of the injury pelvic outcome score and to check the prognostic value of this classification and evaluate its reliability and reproducibility.Methods From January 2017 to June 2020 from 156 pelvic fractures treated at our...

By Luigi Meccariello, Cristina Razzano, Cristina De Dominicis, Juan Antonio Herrera-Molpeceres, Francesco Liuzza, Rocco Erasmo, Guido Rocca, Michele Bisaccia, Enzo Pagliarulo, Pietro Cirfeda, David Gómez Garrido, Giuseppe Pica, Giuseppe Rollo

Aim Total knee arthroplasty represents a procedure that is successfully performed to relieve functional limitation and pain in advanced stages of osteoarthritis. In the next 20 years the number of these procedures will be increased about four times. Patient specific instrumentation (PSI) has been introduced in the past years. The aim of this study ...

By Michele Romeo, Giuseppe Rovere, Leonardo Stramazzo, Francesco Liuzza, Luigi Meccariello, Giulio Maccauro, Lawrence Camarda

Aim Posture requires fine integrative elaboration, performed by the central nervous system, of neurosensory information originated from the visual, vestibular and spinal circuit. Many perturbing agents can influence this elaboration and then the postural stability. Several studies have evaluated only the effect of a single agent on the postural con...

By Valentina Li Causi, Alessandro Manelli, Valentina Gianpaola Marini, Mario Cherubino, Luigi Meccariello, Michael Mazzacane, Mario Ronga

Aim Facial aesthetics is at present a concept intricately linked to the degree of self-esteem. Unwanted submental fat (SMF) leads to an unattractive submental profile. Sodium deoxicolate (ATX) -101 is the only injectable drug approved to decrease submental fat of moderate to severe intensity.Methods We carried out a bibliographic review in PubMed u...

By Cristina Ibáñez-Vicente, Miguel Carrato-Gomez, Luigi Meccariello, Umberto Ripani, Michele Bisaccia

Aim To illustrate the surgical treatment of relapses of traumatic peroneal tendons subluxation.Methods We came across a young woman, who sustained a sprain in her dominant ankle after a trauma; we noticed subluxation ofthe peroneal tendons during eversion and extension of the foot. She referred to a previous accident some years before with peroneal...

By Alessandro Tomarchio, Luigi Meccariello, Dariush Ghargozloo, Andrea Pasquino, Enrico Leonardi