Background:  We aimed to report outcomes of total hip arthroplasty (THA) in very young patients under the year of 30.   Methods:  Thirty patients (45 hips) with various indications for THA were retrospectively reviewed radiologically and clinically and analyzed regarding survival, reasons of failure, factors associated with outcomes and postoperative complications.   Results:  Within a mean fol...

INTRODUCTION Expressionless face associated with multiple contractures has been encountered in an infant. There is a wide range of misconception regarding the categorization of children with multiple contractures among different pediatric disciplines. The fundamental element in categorizing children with multiple contractures is "the etiological understanding". In the absence of concomitant neu...

background: osteoporosis is a preventable and treatable disorder, reported with higher prevalence patients with ulcerative colitis but their relationship is controversial. osteoporosis in these patients may be attributes to corticosteroid use, malnutrition and reduced intake of calcium and vitamin d, lower levels of sex hormones, chronic inflammation and inflammatory cytokines. the aim of study...

The important role of polygenic acetabular configuration and monogenic joint laxity has again been proved in the aetiology of congenital dislocation of the hip. According to the findings reported these two genetic predispositions seem to be unrelated. The time of diagnosis in accetabular dysplasia type and joint laxity type did not differ, thus the neonatal and late-diagnosed cases do not seem ...

during an eight month prospective study, 8240 newborns were examined for detection of congenital dislocation of the hip from oct. 23, 1991 to june 22, 1992. on first examination we found 1302 neonates (158/1000 live births) to have abnormal hips 1063 (81.6%) were prone to subluxation (subluxatable), 218 (16.81 %) prone to dislocation (dislocatable), 17 (1.3%) were dislocated and 4 (0.3%) were t...

Dear Editor, Advancement in healthcare has significantly improved overall life expectancy and it comes as no surprise that centenarians (individuals aged 100 years and above) are projected to increase by 17 fold to 3.2 million by the year 2050.1 Ranked fourth in longest life expectancy, Singapore has already seen a 3-fold increase in 2010 to 724 centenarians just within a decade.2,3 Since osteo...

BACKGROUND Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is the most common cause of congenital infection. Whereas CMV PCR has replaced viral culture and antigen detection in immunocompromised patients because of higher sensitivity, viral culture of neonatal urine is still referred to as the gold standard in the diagnosis of congenital CMV infection. OBJECTIVE To compare real-time CMV PCR with shell vial c...

Congenital hyperthyroidism is less frequent than congenital hypothyroidism but its impact on growth and development can be as dramatic. The immune form of hyperthyroidism that is transmitted from a mother with Graves' disease to her foetus and then neonate is transient, but cases of persistent congenital hyperthyroidism had also been described, that can now be explained by molecular abnormaliti...