As early as 1678 Pare stated that lame people beget lame children, and in 1882 KrUnlein compiled the family trees of many generations of children with congenital dislocation of the hip. In series of patients with congenital hip dislocation a hereditary factor was noted in 20 2 per cent by Isigkeit (1928), in 227 per cent by Scaglietti (1932) and in 6l per cent by Francillon (1937). Mercer (1950...

Some 2500 children with congenital dislocation of the hip were treated at the Orthopaedic Hospital of the Invalid Foundation over the period 1954 to 1974 and have been regularly followed up to the end of growth. One of us (Laurent 1953) had already observed that the vulnerability of the femoral head had often led to changes resembling Perthes’ disease. In 1957 preliminary traction and adductor ...

We observed the upward displacement of femoral heads in skeletal remains two females unearthed from medieval cemetery monastery Santa Maria Valle, Cividale del Friuli (North-Eastern Italy). Examination bone vestiges suggests diagnosis hip dislocation as consequence developmental dysplasia hip. In addition, youngest subject first sacral vertebra appears lumbarized and shows unilateral defect rig...

OBJECTIVE Congenital hypothyroidism is characterized by inadequate thyroid hormone production in newborn infants. Many infants with CH have co-occurring congenital malformations. This is an investigation on the frequency and types of congenital anomalies in infants with congenital hypothyroidism born from May 2006-2010 in Hamadan, west province of Iran. METHODS The Iranian neonatal screening ...

be congratulated on his admirable account of the operation of Lorenz in his book 'Congenital Dislocation of the Hip.' The operation is an extremely technical one, and the ordinary practising surgeon cannot hope to be successful except in a few cases, unless he has mastered all the details of the operation and seen it performed by an expert. There can be no doubt that the disease is not sufficie...

Hip joints (280) from 140 human fetuses, obtained from abortions and deaths in the perinatal period, were studied. The fetuses ranged from 8.7 to 40 cm in crown-rump length and are believed to be between 12 and 42 weeks in age. The joints were dissected, morphology inspected, and measurements taken of the depth and diameter of the acetabulum, the diameter of the femoral head, length and width o...

Background: Hip involvement in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a common extraspinal arthritic manifestation, which is associated to a worse functional outcome. Little data are available on the effectiveness of conservative treatment strategies. The TNF inhibitors have been proven effective on AS activity parameters. Their structural effect on hip disease however, little is studied. Case pres...

the most common congenital diseases in children is congenital heart disease. factors such as environment, genetic, old maternal age during pregnancy, maternal disease and using medicine in pregnancy, prematuritiy, and specific seasons are significant in the prevalence of disease.materials and methods: a cross sectional study was conducted to investigate the status of children with congenital he...

PURPOSE There is an association between winter birth and developmental dysplasia of the hip, formerly termed congenital dislocation of the hip. The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship between the month and season of birth and hip osteoarthritis in Japanese patients who had undergone total hip arthroplasty or transpositional osteotomy of the acetabulum. METHODS One thousand e...