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Specialty:
Board Certification:
Faculty Rank: Associate Professor
Medical or Graduate Education:
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Residency:
New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases - Orthopedic Surgery
Fellowship:
Rush University Medical Center - Adult Reconstructive Surgery
New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases - Orthopedics Research
Clinical Expertise:
Hip joint replacement
Hip resurfacing
Hip surgery, revision
Knee joint replacement
Knee replacement, partial
Knee surgery, revision
Research Interests:
Long-term outcome studies of total joint replacement
Diagnosis and treatment of periprosthetic infection
Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.
Instability in primary total knee arthroplasty. Use of a barbed suture in the closure of hip and knee arthroplasty wounds. Do patients return to work after hip arthroplasty surgery. New definition for periprosthetic joint infection: from the workgroup of the musculoskeletal infection society. Infection control rate of irrigation and débridement for periprosthetic joint infection. Dilute Betadine Lavage Before Closure for the Prevention of Acute Postoperative Deep Periprosthetic Joint Infection. Modified Hybrid Stem Fixation in Revision TKA is Durable at 2 to 10 Years American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons clinical practice guideline on: the diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infections of the hip and knee. Hematologic genetic testing in high-risk patients before knee arthroplasty: a pilot study The Mark Coventry Award: diagnosis of early postoperative TKA infection using synovial fluid analysis Preoperative diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection: role of aspiration. Revision total knee arthroplasty: what the practicing orthopaedic surgeon needs to know. Porous metal augments: big hopes for big holes Perioperative testing for persistent sepsis following resection arthroplasty of the hip for periprosthetic infection Early experience with a novel nonmetallic cable in reconstructive hip surgery Revision total knee arthroplasty for stiffness What is the Role of Serological Testing Between Stages of Two-stage Reconstruction of the Infected Prosthetic Knee? Intraoperative Molds to Create an Articulating Spacer for the Infected Knee Arthroplasty Revision total knee arthroplasty: what the practicing orthopaedic surgeon needs to know External iliac artery injury complicating prosthetic hip resection for infection Perioperative oral pregabalin reduces chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty: a prospective, randomized, controlled trial Interprosthetic fractures of the femur: treatment with a single-locked plate Periprosthetic Joint Infection: Editorial Comment AAOS Clinical Practice Guideline: diagnosis and treatment of periprosthetic joint infections of the hip and knee Diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infections of the hip and knee A prospective randomized trial of mini-incision posterior and two-incision total hip arthroplasty Cruciate-retaining TKA using a third-generation system with a four-pegged tibial component: a minimum 10-year followup note Synovial fluid biomarkers for periprosthetic infection DVT prophylaxis in total joint reconstruction Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: indications, techniques, and results Periprosthetic fractures of the hip and knee: a problem on the rise but better solutions Revision of the acetabulum with a contemporary cementless component Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species induce protein and DNA modifications driving arthrofibrosis following total knee arthroplasty Microbiological, clinical, and surgical features of fungal prosthetic joint infections: a multi-institutional experience Primary total hip arthroplasty with a porous-coated acetabular component. A concise follow-up, at a minimum of twenty years, of previous reports Newer anesthesia and rehabilitation protocols enable outpatient hip replacement in selected patients Initial American experience with hip resurfacing following FDA approval Is patient selection important for hip resurfacing? Use of the extended trochanteric osteotomy in treating prosthetic hip infection Revision of the acetabular component without cement. A concise follow-up, at twenty to twenty-four years, of a previous report Perioperative testing for joint infection in patients undergoing revision total hip arthroplasty Total knee arthroplasty: what works best? Extensor mechanism allograft reconstruction after total knee arthroplasty Extended trochanteric osteotomy for the treatment of vancouver B2/B3 periprosthetic fractures of the femur Letter to the editor: An anatomic study of tibial metaphyseal/diaphyseal mismatch during revision total knee arthroplasty The use of a tripolar articulation in revision total hip arthroplasty: a minimum of 24 months' follow-up When is the right time to resurface? Femoral fracture through a previous pin site after computer-assisted total knee arthroplasty
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View Transcript Most people don’t want to have surgery. I think it’s a normal reaction to try to avoid being in the operating room. But I think what happens is, when people get severe hip and knee arthritis, they get to a certain point that they’re so frustrated — every step that they take they have pain, putting on their shoes and socks they have pain — that they reach a point and they say, “You know what? I don’t want to have surgery, but I just can’t live like this any longer.” And I think that’s the point for most people when they decide to come and see me and talk a little bit more seriously about having a hip or knee replacement.
I think with the volume of hip and knee replacements we do at Rush, which is 3 to 4,000 per year, it gives us the luxury of a lot of experience. And by having a lot of experience with these very specific procedures, allows us to take care of patients with very difficult problems. So sometimes we’ll see patients who’ve had multiple prior surgeries before or maybe have had a complication following a previous surgery. And with our experience I think we’re able to handle those patients and offer them good solutions to what sometimes are very difficult problems.
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