Edited by an orthopaedic surgeon who is a leading specialist in thetreatment of the musculo-skeletal complications ofhaemophilia.The Haemophilic Joints: New Perspectives reviewsthe different protocols for the orthopaedic management of thehaemophilic articulations.The book draws together, in a single volume, the more recentperspectives of all the orthopaedic methods that can be applied inthe diagnosis and treatment of the haemophilic joints from numerousspecialists worldwide. It will be an invaluable resource for allthose treating the articular problems in people withhaemophilia.

Contributors.Preface.Part 1: General Principles.1 Orthopaedic Surgery for Persons with Haemophilia: GeneralPrinciples.2 Pathogenesis of Haemophilic Synovitis and Arthropathy.3 Haemophilic Haemarthrosis.4 Haematological Substitutive Treatment of HaemophilicHaemarthroses.5 Diagnosis by Imaging of Haemophilic Joints.6 Sonography of Haemophilic Joints.7 Musculoskeletal Outcomes research in Haemophilia.8 Joint Evaluation Instruments in Haemophilia.9 Joint Surgery in Patients with Inhibitors.Part 2: Chronic Haemophilic Synovitis.10 Multilevel Surgery in a Single Operative Session for Personswith Haemophilia: Considerations in Patients with MultipleDeformities.11 Radioactive Isotopes for radionsynovioethesis.12 Synoviorthesis in Haemophilia.13 Oxytetracycline Clorhydrate as a New Material for ChemicalSynoviorthesis in Haemophilia.14 Arthroscopic Synovectomy of the Knee.Part 3: Moderate Haemophilic Arthropathy.15 New Concepts regarding articular cartilage preservation inpersons with haemophilia.16 Knee malalignments in haemophilia: osteotomies.17 Knee joint debridement in haemophilia.18 Flexion contractures of the knee in haemophilia.19 Flexion contractures of the Ankle in haemophilia.Part 4: Severe haemophilic arthropathy.20 Total hip arthroplasty in haemophilia patient.21 Total knee replacement in haemophilia patient.22 Elbow Anthropathy in patients with severe haemophilia.23 Ankle arthrodesis in haemophilia.Part 5: Rehabilitation and physiotherapy.24 Prevention and treatment of joint problems in children withhaemophilia.25 Rehabilitation and physiotherapy of haemophilic joints inadults.26 Rehabilitation following ankle surgery in haemophilia.Part 6: Miscellaneous.27 Motion analysis in children with haemophilia.28 The haemophilic shoulder.29 Osteonecrosis of the femoral head in haemophilia.30 Haemophilic arthropathy of the ankle.31 Neurological lesions following musculoskeletal bleeding inhaemophilia.32 Osteophytes, subchondral cysts and intraosseous cysts of thehaemophilic joints.33 Haemophilic arthropathies: comparison between clinical,radiographic and subjective findings.Index