Blount disease

03/01/2008 - "Hemiepiphysiodesis is effective in preventing the progression of deformity in patients with Blount disease. "
10/01/2005 - "Hemiepiphyseal stapling of the lateral aspect of the proximal tibial physis and, as needed, the lateral aspect of the distal femoral physis is safe and effective in children with late-onset tibia vara if the physes are sufficiently open and the varus deformity is mild to moderate. "
03/01/2014 - "The goal of our study was to assess whether children with Blount disease had lower body mass index (BMI) after surgical correction of their lower limb deformity. "
07/01/2007 - "From this study, we conclude that asymmetrical loading (such as that observed in Blount disease) may lead to compression (which retards growth) but also develops tension on the convex side (which may be a mechanism to increase deformity via Depelch phenomenon). "
10/01/2005 - "To find the effectiveness of the early surgery (2-3 years of age)as a very important prognostic factor affecting the outcomes in Thai children with infantile tibia vara and all the prognostic factors including the usefulness of arthrographic study in correcting the deformity. "

10/01/2000 - "This study describes and evaluates the efficacy of a simple clinical examination technique, the 'cover up' test, to identify young children with bow legs who are at high risk for having infantile tibia vara. "
12/01/2013 - "In some patients, there are concurrent tibia vara and genu varum (bow leg). "
01/01/2013 - "Blount's disease, or tibia vara, is the most common cause of pathologic genu varum in children and adolescents. "
06/01/2010 - "Late-onset tibia vara or Blount's disease is the most common cause of pathologic genu varum in children and adolescents. "
10/01/2008 - "Progressive genu varum with disturbance of medial tibial physeal growth (classic Blount disease) is a well-studied phenomenon, and in rare cases, genu varum can occur because of medial distal femoral physeal growth disturbance (so-called femoral Blount disease). "

07/01/2013 - "A strong, but not universal, association exists between Blount disease and childhood obesity, increasing the prevalence and making effective treatment of this condition a challenge. "
01/01/2015 - "This is consistent with the observed relationships between obesity and other conditions affecting the physis including Blount disease and slipped capital femoral epiphysis. "
01/01/2015 - "Blount disease is a developmental disorder associated with childhood obesity. "
06/01/2014 - "The incidence of infantile Blount disease is rising in parallel to the increasing obesity in children. "
06/01/2014 - "Obesity and increasing rate of infantile Blount disease."

07/01/2012 - "Demographic characteristics (age, sex, body mass index [BMI]), radiographic features (mechanical axis angle, tibia vara angle, tibial slope angle, Kellgren-Lawrence grade [KLG]), and environmental factors (occupation, trauma history, sports activity level, table use or not, bed use or not-variables that are representative of the oriental lifestyle of lotus position and squatting) were surveyed. "
10/01/2006 - "The patients included seventy-nine children and thirty-two adults in whom the discrepancy was secondary to trauma (55%), congenital shortening (18%), Blount disease (14%), or another cause (13%). "
09/01/1989 - "(2) Adolescent tibia vara is caused by partial closure of the growth plate after trauma or infection between the ages of six and 13 years. "
02/01/1989 - "Thus, adolescent tibia vara, by definition not related to trauma or infection, may in fact reflect the same pathologic process at work as in infantile tibia vara."
02/01/1989 - "By its epidemiology and histology, adolescent tibia vara appears to be related to repetitive trauma in the form of abnormal force directed on the medial tibial growth plate due to obesity, the adolescent growth spurt, or residual, incompletely corrected physiologic varus. "

09/01/2006 - "As the increasing prevalence of overweight and obese children is approaching epidemic proportions in North America, this study was designed to investigate whether Body Mass Index (BMI) and age- and gender-specific percentile Body Mass Index (BMI %) are associated with the likelihood of being listed for surgery for Blount disease after initial presentation to a tertiary referral centre. "
01/01/2011 - "This article describes some of the orthopaedic conditions commonly encountered in overweight/obese children and adolescents, classically infantile and adolescent tibia vara and slipped capital femoral epiphysis. "
09/01/2010 - "Overweight and obese patients with Blount disease were among those most likely to experience eight-Plate screw failure. "
01/01/2004 - "Specifically, the incidence of spinal complications, slipped capital femoral epiphysis, Blount disease, and acute fractures has been related to being overweight or obese. "