HealthDay featuring Alexander P. Hughes, MD

Orthopedics This Week reports on an HSS study presented at the annual AAOS conference that looked at the incidence of osteopenia in spine fusion patients. Senior investigator Alexander P. Hughes, MD, spine surgeon at HSS, explains, "I …

A new study by HSS investigators, presented at the AAOS Annual Meeting, found that a significant number of lumbar spine surgery patients had previously undiagnosed osteoporosis. The study enrolled patients undergoing lumbar …

For years, bone mineral density (BMD) -- a measure of how much actual bone mineral a bone contains -- has been used to determine which patients are candidates for spinal surgery and which are not. It was assumed that a low BMD, found in patients …