Common Shoulder Procedure Found Worthless
Saline lavage, meant to loosen up calcified shoulder tendons, provided no benefit in a double-blind, sham-controlled trial, researchers said. Four months after treatment, Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) values were about the same whether patients with so-called calcific tendinopathy received the actual saline lavage plus injections with a corticosteroid (triamcinolone) and lidocaine, sham lavage plus the […]
Lithotripsy Advantage in Calcified Peripheral Vessels Holds Up at 1 Year
ATLANTA — Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) beat percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) for keeping calcified peripheral artery lesions open at 1 year, the Disrupt PAD III trial showed. Primary patency at 1 year was 80.5% for the IVL arm compared with 68.0% for the PTA arm (P=0.017), reported William Gray, MD, co-director of the Lankenau Heart Institute […]