Request for Funding
Medical Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2011
All descriptions must contain enough detail to permit an assessment of the problem that is to be addressed and the methodologies that are to be employed. Please be careful to outline the role that the student will play in the project that is described. Please ensure that all relevant approval numbers (IRB, IACUC) are provided.
Mentor: Michael H. Huo, MD
Department: Orthopedic Surgery
Room number:WA-4
Mail Code: 8883
Phone number: 214 645-3335 or 214 645-3367
E-mail: Michael.huo@utsouthwestern.edu
Project title: Outcome of total hip replacement revision surgery
Human subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable): #062007-087 (expiration Apr 22, 2011, renewal application in process)
Animal subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):
Project Type (patient-based research, animal-based research, or basic research; this characterization is only to permit a general classification for grouping similar types of projects)
Patient-based
Brief Description of Project:
This is an ongoing prospective clinical study. We have included all the patients undergoing revision total hip replacement surgeries since January 2004. All the operations were done by a single surgeon: Dr. Michael Huo. Majority of the cases have been done (>90%) at UT Southwestern St Paul University Hospital, with the remaining done at Parkland Hospital.
We have generated an abstract and manuscript on
“Revision THR in the geriatric patients: is it the same as for younger patients?”
This large data base includes nearly 500 patients. Various projects for data analysis are ongoing:
Moreover, we will start a new data base for revision TKRs as the volume for such operation has continued to escalate.
Previous Research Activities or Publications with Medical Students:
Huo MH, Ho B (class of 2010): Chemoprophylaxis for VTE in total joint arthroplasty: in the affirmative. Seminars in Arthroplasty. (in print)
Garza R (MS-2) and Huo MH: Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in orthopedic patients using dabigatran: an oral direct thrombin inhibitor. Expert Review. (in print)
Phelps J, Zhang X (MS-3), Huo MH: Current status of hip resurfacing arthroplasty. Current Orthopedic Practice 20:2-7, 2009
Espinoza-Ervin C, Zhang X (MS-3), Huo MH: Can we afford revision total hip replacement? Current Orthopedic Practice 20: 29-33, 2009
Ho B (class of 2010), Huo, MH: Malignant neoplasia in total hip replacement. J Orthopedics 2008;5(3)e9
http://www.jortho.org/2008/5/3/e9
Huo MH, Chan D, Ho D(MS-4 at North Texas Univeristy School of Medicine, DO program): Economic impact of revision total hip replacement. Current Opinions in Orthopedics. 18:13-16, 2007
Choi B (class of 2009), Huo MH: Venous thromboembolism following total knee replacement: A review. J Surg Orthop Advances. 16:31-35, 2007
Ho D (MS-4 at North Texas University School of Medicine), Huo MH: Does implant standardization programs reduce cost of total knee arthroplasty? J Am College of Surgeons 205:97-100, 2007