Mitigating surgical risk in patients undergoing hip arthroplasty for fractures of the proximal femur
NULL Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery – British Volume, Vol 91-B, Issue 7, A. J. Timperley, MBChB, FRCS(Ed), DPhil(Oxon), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon1; and S. L. Whitehouse, BSc(Hons), PhD, Biostatistician/Research Fellow2 Recently the National Patient Safety Agency in the United Kingdom published a report entitled «Mitigating surgical risk in patients undergoing hip arthroplasty for fractures […]
Management of Hemorrhage in Life-threatening Pelvic Fracture
David J. Hak, MD, MBA, Wade R. Smith, MD and Takashi Suzuki, MD J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 17, No 7, July 2009, Emergent life-saving treatment is required for high-energy pelvic fracture with associated hemorrhage and hemodynamic instability. Advances in prehospital, interventional, surgical, and critical care have led to increased survival rates. Pelvic binders […]
Anterior Iliopsoas Impingement and Tendinitis After Total Hip Arthroplasty
Paul F. Lachiewicz, MD and Justin R. Kauk, MD J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 17, No 6, June 2009, Anterior iliopsoas impingement and tendinitis is a poorly understood and likely underrecognized cause of groin pain and functional disability after total hip arthroplasty. The patient history and physical examination findings are usually only suggestive, and […]
Intramedullary Hip Screw Versus Standard Compression Hip Screw: Early Postoperative Rehabilitation Comparisons
Bruce H. Ziran, MD; Dan S. Heckman, MD; Carlos M. Olarte, MD; Kent Chou, MD; Jennifer Baranick, OTR/L ORTHOPEDICS 2009; 32:83 Studies comparing the intramedullary hip screw and the compression hip screw for fixation of intertrochanteric hip fractures have shown little difference in final functional outcome. However, the characteristics of the rehabilitation process for these […]
The effect of a single infusion of zoledronic Acid on early implant migration in total hip arthroplasty. A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial
Friedl G, Radl R, Stihsen C, Rehak P, Aigner R, Windhager R; Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume 91 (2), 274-81 (Feb 2009) BACKGROUND: Aseptic loosening is the most frequent cause of implant failure in total hip arthroplasty. While a direct link between aseptic loosening and periprosthetic bone loss remains elusive, there is […]
Midterm to long-term followup of staged reimplantation for infected hip arthroplasty
Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2009 Jan;467(1):219-24. Epub 2008 Sep 24 Sanchez-Sotelo J, Berry DJ, Hanssen AD, Cabanela ME. Most reports on two-stage reimplantation have focused on the short-term cure rate of infection, but little is known about long-term reinfection-free survival or mechanical durability. We retrospectively reviewed 168 patients (169 hips) with infected arthroplasty, all of […]
Hip Disease in the Young, Active Patient: Evaluation and Nonarthroplasty Surgical Options
J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 16, No 12, December 2008 Rafael J. Sierra, MD, Robert T. Trousdale, MD, Reinhold Ganz, MD and Michael Leunig, MD As a distinct entity, femoroacetabular impingement has been suggested to be a preosteoarthritic mechanism. The condition occurs when the proximal femur repeatedly comes into contact with the native acetabular […]
Do not implant!–long-term follow-up of a patient who received a trial hip stem
J Arthroplasty. 2008 Dec;23(8):1239.e19-23. Hirschmann MT, Helfrich C, Friederich NF. We describe the case of a patient who had undergone a total hip arthroplasty for primary osteoarthritis 17 years previously. Clinical and radiologic signs of aseptic loosening compelled a revision arthroplasty. Surprisingly, the removed femoral stem turned out to be a trial stem. Retrospective examination […]
Surgical Management of Hip Fractures: An Evidence-based Review of the Literature. II: Intertrochanteric Fractures
J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 16, No 11, November 2008 Kevin Kaplan, MD, Ryan Miyamoto, MD, Brett R. Levine, MD, Kenneth A. Egol, MD and Joseph D. Zuckerman, MD Treatment of intertrochanteric hip fracture is based on patient medical condition, preexisting degenerative arthritis, bone quality, and the biomechanics of the fracture configuration. A critical […]
Venous thromboembolism clinically detected after hip fracture surgery with prophylaxis in a clinical practice setting
Am J Orthop. 2008 Sep;37(9):470-5. Comp P, Happe LE, Sarnes M, Farrelly E. Clinical trials have shown differences in efficacy among anticoagulants used for venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis after hip fracture surgery, but the applicability of their results is limited by constraints of the clinical trial setting. We conducted this retrospective cohort study to assess […]
