Sahar AH Al-Sharqi
Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, IraqPublications
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Research
Evaluation Pathogenesis Outcomes of Knee and Hip in Patients with Osteoarthritis Based on: Histopathological, Hematological, and Indicators of Inflammation
Author(s): Dina AA Abdullah, Sahar AH Al-Sharqi*, Hazima mossa ALabassi, Mahmood SWahab and Mohammad Saeed Almishhadany
Introduction: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a biomechanical process in which the joints respond pathologically to mechanical stress, leading to articular cartilage damage and changes in other tissue. The present study focuses on some hematological and inflammatory indicators in both patients and control and histopathological change in the knee and hip of OA patients. Methods: Tissue samples were obtained from 50 OA patients (25 knee and 25 hip) during knee and hip replacement for histopathological study and 25 as control group for hematological and immune factors analysis. The tissue and blood samples were collected during the period October 2019 to April 2020. Results: the Histological study of knee and hip OA tissues (Femoral bone tissue and bone marrow tissue) expressed many histopathological changes such as fibrin deposition, congestion of blood vessels, and infiltration of inflammatory .. Read More»