{"title":"Bilateral hip and knee arthroplasty in ochronotic arthritis.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>No effective medical treatment is available for the treatment of ochronotic arthritis which is a manifestation of long standing alkaptonuria. A patient of long standing alkaptonuria progressing to debilitating ochronotic arthritis of both hip and knee jointswith severe deformities has been described. He was successfully treated with bilateral total hip and knee arthroplasty with an excellent four-year follow-up. The occurrence of severe osteoporosis in this condition and the importance of advocating surgery before development of severe deformities of the joints to improve the outcome of surgery has been highlighted in this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":17244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Medical Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Indian Medical Association","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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No effective medical treatment is available for the treatment of ochronotic arthritis which is a manifestation of long standing alkaptonuria. A patient of long standing alkaptonuria progressing to debilitating ochronotic arthritis of both hip and knee jointswith severe deformities has been described. He was successfully treated with bilateral total hip and knee arthroplasty with an excellent four-year follow-up. The occurrence of severe osteoporosis in this condition and the importance of advocating surgery before development of severe deformities of the joints to improve the outcome of surgery has been highlighted in this article.
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The Journal of the Indian Medical association, popularly known as JIMA, an indexed (in index medicus) monthly journal, has the largest circulation (over 1.75 lakh Copies per month) of all the indexed and other medical journals of India and abroad. This journal is also available in microfilm through Bell & Howels, USA. The founder leaders of this prestigious journal include Late Sir Nilratan Sircar, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, Dr Kumud Sankar Ray and other scholars and doyens of the medical profession. It started in the pre-independence era (1930) with only 122 doctors.
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