Treatment of bilateral hip luxation in dogs with the Shani-Johnston-Shahar technique: case report

Treatment of traumatic hip dislocation can be conservative one with closed reduction, made within 48 hours of the accident, or surgical one. Surgical therapy includes many techniques, which are divided on intra and extra-articular ones. Among surgical procedures practice in hip luxation in dogs are: prosthetic capsule repair, joint capsule imbrication, transposition of greater trochanter, prosthetic of ligamentum teres with toggle fixation, anchor prearticular suture, transarticular pin, transarticular external skeletal fixator, De-Vita pinning, femoral head osteotomy and triple pelvic osteotomy [2, 4-6, 8]. In most of these techniques complications like pin breakage or migrations, sciatic nerve or rectum injury, necrosis of the femoral head and neck, fistula formation and damage of the joint cartilage have been described. Besides, most of the mentioned above techniques are more or less time-consuming, and required some surgical experiences [6, 8].