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2012: New Dupuytren’s Textbook Publication
Inspired by the exchange of new ideas at the 2010 International Symposium on Dupuytren’s Disease, the symposium’s faculty worked for a year and a half to publish a comprehensive textbook on Dupuytren’s disease. Dupuytren’s Disease and Related Hyperproliferative Disorders: Principles, Research, and Clinical Perspectives, published this year by Springer, covers
A new Dupuytren’s research project has launched!
After much preparation, a collaborative effort is underway between Professor Paul Werker at Groningen University Medical Center in The Netherlands and Dr. Charles Eaton at The Hand Center in Jupiter, FL. This retrospective study will follow the long term outcomes of patients who have had Dupuytren’s treated with Needle Aponeurotomy,
Medical research: I have nodules but no contractures. What can I do?
I have nodules but no contractures. What can I do? The question “What can I do to keep my Dupuytren’s from getting worse or from coming back after treatment?” is the holy grail for Dupuytren’s. Dupuytren’s is not cured by surgery, and there is not an effective medical treatment to
Dupuytren Roundtable Discussions
Here are links to two recently published roundtable discussions by experts in the field of Dupuytren’s. Although these were discussions by surgeons for surgeons, they are really just conversations and quite readable. They highlight the current challenges both surgeons and their patients face with Dupuytren’s disease and provide insight into
Dupuytren Foundation 2010 Report
It’s been a busy year behind the scenes for the Dupuytren Foundation – see what we’ve been up to at http://conta.cc/hV1lEy
2010 Dupuytren’s Symposium Screensaver. Mysterious, like Dupuytren’s
Produced for the 2010 Miami Dupuytren Symposium with Electric Sheep and Wax Audio, this musical animation provides a background to contemplate new approaches to find a cure for Dupuytren’s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOrWEYWl4fA
Miami Dupuytren Symposium spurs new research: Report from Dupuytren’s Day at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Handchirurgiethe (German Society for Surgery of the Hand – DGH)
Dr Wolfgang Wach reports from the DGH, Oct 7 Dupuytren Program: “I attended the Dupuytren’s day at the Nuremberg conference of German hand surgeons and the Miami Dupuytren Symposium was pretty well covered there. Bernhard Lukas gave a review of the Miami conference and the current issue of the German
Swimming the English Channel to Support Dupuytren’s Research
Surgeons and surgeons in training brave the English Channel to raise money to support hand surgery research: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/8441861.Swimming_medics_show_surgical_spirit/ Cold! I mean …How cool is that? Good work!
Video: I was a Teenage Myofibroblast (and I loved it!)
Before becoming the villain in Dupuytren’s, the myofibroblast was really not a bad cell. What happened? What caused the change? Could it happen to you? Professor Sem Phan, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan explains almost everything in this presentation of “Mechanisms of Myofibroblast Differentiation”: http://www.youtube.com/user/DupuytrenFoundation#p/u/0/dsPwSUDrz1Y Funding for these and
Recent Dupuytren Publications
- Dupuytren contracture after acute traumatic hand injury in an adolescent: A case report
- Patient Experiences With Hand Surgery in the Office Versus Ambulatory Surgery Center
- Collagenase Treatment Versus Needle Fasciotomy for Single-Digit Dupuytren Contractures: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
- Exploring the potential relationship between frozen shoulder and Dupuytren's disease through bioinformatics analysis and machine learning
- Objective and subjective assessment of Dupuytren's contracture
