Letter to the editor concerning “Guidelines for clinical diagnosis and treatment of osteonecrosis of the femoral head in adults (2019 version)” by Zhao et?al., Journal of Orthopaedic Translation, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jot.2019.12.004

摘要

With great interest, we have read “Guidelines for clinical diagnosisand treatment of osteonecrosis of the femoral head in adults (2019version)” by Zhao et al. [1], in which they comprehensively introduce theepidemiology, aetiology, pathology, clinical manifestations, imagingdiagnosis, staging and classification, differential diagnosis, nonsurgicaltreatment, and surgical treatment of osteonecrosis. Following this, wewould like to present updated sharing on how to prevent osteonecrosis inthe pandemic of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and thepotential strategies linked to novel R&D agents.