.238). CONCLUSION: Cannabis use does not appear to influence (adverse or beneficial) short-term outcomes in patients undergoing a primary TKA. Further studies are warranted to determine the efficacy and safety of cannabis as a constituent of multimodal pain management following TKA before endorsements can be made by orthopedic surgeons. Copyright Read more…
20.7) completed an online survey. Based on past-year reports of cannabis and tobacco/nicotine use, we defined 5 mutually exclusive groups: (a) single-product use; (b) concurrent use only (using both products, but only on separate occasions); (c) sequential use only (using both products on the same occasion, one right after the Read more…
ucsd.edu.AbstractOBJECTIVE: Drug abuse may affect lower extremity vessels due to ischemia following intra-arterial injections, vasospasm, arterial and venous pseudoaneurysms, arteriovenous fistulae, vasculitis and complicated abscesses. Little is known about the outcomes of Lower Extremity Bypass (LEB) for peripheral arteries disease (PAD) in patients with a history of drug abuse disorder. Read more…
2.84; 95% CI 1.18-6.82). The association between cannabis use in pregnancy and overall stillbirth and antepartum stillbirth did not reach statistical significance, but it had comparable point estimates to other outcomes (aHR 1.38; 95% CI 0.95-1.99 and aHR 1.34; 95% CI 0.88-2.06, respectively). CONCLUSION: Cannabis use in pregnancy is associated Read more…
52,689) with Medicare claims to identify diagnoses of cannabis dependence or abuse (CDOA) and associations (adjusted hazard ratio, 95% LCL aHR95% UCL) with graft, patient and other clinical outcomes. RESULTS: CDOA was diagnosed in only 0.5% (n View the Original article Partage le savoir