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The New Dupuytren Foundation Web site is live!
The Dupuytren Foundation has a new web site! It’s taken a lot of work, but the new web site for the Dupuytren Foundation is live. Looks nicer, works better, and more to come. http://DupuytrenFoundation.org
The Dupuytren Symposium is coming!
As tomorrow’s deadline for abstract submission nears, internet connections are heating up at command central for the 2010 International Symposium on Dupuytren’s Disease. The symposium syllabus looks very exciting, with some amazing new reports. Session topics have solidified as: The Myofibroblast; Genetics and Demographics; Disease Concepts; Collagen and Collagenase; Surgical
Dupuytren’s Review
Despite being a visible, obvious problem, Dupuytren’s is difficult to understand, like the Jimmy Buffet line “so simple – like the jitterbug – it plumb evaded me”. It is helpful to review the basics on a regular basis to keep a clear perspective. Here is a great review for hand
Needle Release of Dupuytren’s: 2010 Manual of Technique
Percutaneous fasciotomy for Dupuytren’s contracture is an old procedure, but was reinvented by Dr. Lermusiaux in Paris in the 1980s, who used a small needle rather than a scalpel. This modification allows the procedure to be performed using almost no anesthesia, which gives an unprecedented safety margin: the patient can
Fifty years of Dupuytren’s Patients Reviewed
One of the more puzzling things about Dupuytren’s is the variation in demographic data. Taking away the variation in results from different surgeons doing different operations, one would expect a standard pattern of who is at risk, what conditions are associated. Not so. A review of nearly 3000 Dupuytren patients
Management strategies for Dupuytren’s
The management options for people with Dupuytren’s can appear as confusing as the biology. This review provides a nice overview of Dupuytren’s disease and a practical decision tree approach to manage hands affected by Dupuytren’s. It’s worth a read: http://www.dupuytrenfoundation.org/DupPDFs/2006_Bayat_1586.pdf
Homeopathy for Dupuytren’s
HH Reckeweg (1905-1985) in Germany developed the Disease Evolution Table of homeopathic medicine. In this system, Dupuytren’s contracture is classified as a mesenchymal-connective tissue cellular-degeneration phase disease. This should be the starting point for homeopathic physicians to begin developing a homeopathic cure for Dupuytren’s. See where Dupuytren’s fits on the
Machines to Stretch Dupuytren’s Cords
There is not yet a perfect solution for PIP contractures from Dupuytren’s Disease, or for PIP contractures in general. One approach has been to use temporary skeletal fixation devices to slowly lengthen Dupuytren’s cords and scar tissue. The collagen bundles in Dupuytren’s cords don’t actually stretch: they remodel, disconnecting crosslinks
Tissue markers for Dupuytren’s
Is it possible to predict the course of Dupuytren’s in an individual? Who will need surgery? Who will have rapid progression or an early recurrence after surgery and who won’t? Family and personal history provide general trends, but that’s all. Several studies have correlated the cellularity of nodule tissue and
Recent Dupuytren Publications
- 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
- Can You Go the Distance: Collagenase <em>Clostridium histolyticum</em> Manipulation at 1 Month after Injection
