Thursday 17 February 2011

Treatment of aseptic necrosis

Treatment of aseptic necrosis is highly inefficient. Conservative treatment using multiple methods of physiotherapy is essentially symptomatic and, best case leads only to temporary and non-persistent decrease in pain in the wrist joint. The most significant is immobilization of the wrist joint, but its effectiveness, even in those cases where it lasts up to 2 months, very quickly turns out to be invalid, when the patient returns to work. Long-term treatment, long transfers to facilitate the work to which we are so happy to have recourse, is simply an attempt to delay the time of recognition of patient disabilities and needy in terms of disability.

There are many ways of surgical treatment of aseptic necrosis of the lunate bone, but also an active surgical intervention does not lead to desired results. Removing diseased lunate bone like a foreign body, Subhon-dralnoe excision it in appropriate cases, partial resection, cortical thickness incisions of the affected bone or piercing it in many places in order to stimulate regeneration, the formation of lunate-beam fusion, excochleation lunate bone with Sealing cavities - far not a complete list of operations used for aseptic necrosis. Wide dissemination of these operations is hampered not only by their complexity, but the fact that an overwhelming majority of cases end in an extremely heavy ankylosing osteoarthritis of the wrist joint and thus, even if the patient gets rid of the pain, wrist function is lost.

Based on the importance of "negative option" for the formation of aseptic necrosis, Persson suggested that in severe cases with sharply expressed "negative option" to produce radial shortening or lengthening of the ulna in order to change the existing relations of articular sites. Persson said that out of 19 operated by this method in 14 patients with good results.

Pessimistic assessment of outcomes in patients with aseptic necrosis of the lunate bone is based on a sufficient number of indisputable facts. Of 209 examinees were only 7 (3.3%) were able, after long-term care to remain in its ongoing work. The remaining 202 have lost their skills and were considered disabled in need of continued employment for work that does not require any intense and significant amount of hand movements (radiocarpal joint, fingers).

Real prevention of disease Kienbock very difficult. Brush, as is known, is the "gateway of vibration, but the number of workers with vibrating tools has been steadily increasing in line with the needs of the economy. Only improved antivibration devices will reduce the many effects of vibration, including necrosis of the lunate bone disease. In no less prevention must include full and mechanization and automation of many tense for hand work. It is very possible that a significant role can be played by a professional selection, taking into account the structural features of the articular sites radius and ulna bones, preventing a number of works, primarily associated with vibration, those with "negative option" for the wrist joint. Peculiarities of aseptic necrosis of the lunate bone, the trend of the disease to progress and make it virtually irreversible physician conducting the examination of disability, to take into account these circumstances and did not expect that treatment and temporary employment to facilitate the work will help the patient return to his profession. Summation microtraumas will have its destructive effect on the lunate bone and after a few years after onset, and by the time the repair will come a sharp change in bone formation deforming osteoarthrosis of the wrist joint with a significant restriction of the brush. Establishing the diagnosis of aseptic necrosis of lunate bone means recognizing patient disability. Need for such a strong conclusion due primarily to and features of the disease, and the fact that the vast majority of the patients is the profession of heavy physical labor. Employment of such patients is often challenging, since it is necessary to take into account that they are counter-work requiring support, shock or pressure on the wrist extensors and flexion. Many patients also have to constantly wear a splint or bandage fixing the beam-carpal joint.

Perthes disease


Perthes disease, osteochondropathy femoral head - a disease associated with circulatory disturbance and destruction of the femoral head. The disease is prolonged and 20-25% of the children produced severe deformity of the femoral head and subsequently developed a deforming coxarthrosis. Treatment methods of conventional medicine is to improve the blood supply, ensuring the rest of the affected area of bone.

If you violate the blood supply of bone of the femoral head, resulting in partial necrosis (necrosis) of bone tissue. This process is accompanied by pain and lameness, but X-rays at this point can not be any changes.

In what areas of necrotic bone exposed to resorption. This changes the shape of the femoral head - of the globe, it turns into a mushroom, flattened. Next, the femoral head sclerosis, the process of necrosis was already over and the bone is no longer sick. Despite this, the pain still remains, as now begins to break down joint cartilage - is developing arthrosis. What has changed form the femoral head, the more pronounced arthrosis develops, the more pain and limp.

The process is more often unilateral, at least - two-sided. The initial stages are asymptomatic. The first symptoms - a slight soreness in the hip joint and lameness, sometimes the disease begins with pain in the knee joint.

Later manifest fatigue while walking, joint pain, lameness, atrophy of the gluteal muscles, restriction of rotational motions and abduction of the hip, shortening of the limbs.

X-ray examination. Depending on the disease stage femoral head may be smaller, flattened shape and osteoporotic, fragmented or sclerosal structure.

At later stages the head takes mushroom shape. The cervix is shortened, reduced neck-diaphyseal angle. Articular cavity expanded. Radioisotope scanning with 99mTc identifies areas of impaired circulation. MRI reveals necrosis or early stages.

The earliest symptoms of Perthes' disease are pain and lameness. However, it should be borne in mind that a certain group of patients with pain may be absent. Lameness at the beginning of the disease may result from pain and joint contractures, and later - a consequence of the weakness of the gluteal muscles, subluxation of the hip. Muscle atrophy also relates to an early and constant symptom of the disease. The main clinical symptoms of Perthes' disease expressed more pronounced than in older age it occurs. A special place in the manifestation of Perthes' disease belongs to vegetative-vascular disorders, which are more pronounced when one-sided defeat. Clinically, they appear pale feet, its cooling and increased sweating, decreased heart rate in the area of fingers, wrinkled skin of the foot plantar surface ("skin washerwoman"). Very rarely Perthes disease begins acutely, there are an expression of pain in the hip joint, the temperature rise, "inflammatory" changes the blood.