Background: There is much interest regarding metal-on-metal implants in medical and general media. Much of this has been regarding failure of specific implant systems and metal ion toxicity. We present our early mid-term experience of the ADEPT metal-on-metal system which has both modular and non-modular hip options. Methods: Functional assessment, blood metal ion quantification, and radiograph...

The following issue brief is a shortened version of a full-length article published by the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (" Variability in Costs associated with Total Hip and knee replacement Implants. The US health care system is struggling to moderate growth in spending while maintaining quality-improving innovation in diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. attention is being focused o...

Intertrochanteric fractures can be fixed with various implants surface or intramedullary implants. A study was done on Fixation of trochanteric Hip Nail/Intra Medullary Screw an innovative cephalomedullary nail designed by author to determine its efficacy, union operative use and functional outcome. Trochanteric hip were classified upon number parts, stable unstable in initial 43 cases. All as ...

Hip arthroplasty or hip replacement is a surgical procedure by which damaged cartilage and bone are removed from the joint replaced implants. performed in order to achive painless normal movements. Obesity characterized excessive accumulation of fat inside an organism it affects occurance arthrosis. Obese people make up 30% population developed countries. A vast majority recent research publica...

Hip prosthetic implants represent a consolidated and successful solution to restore functional gait in patients affected by a wide range of disease including osteoarthritis degeneration processes, cancer effects, osteoporosis, traumatic injuries. While at the beginning of the worldwide dissemination of this joint replacement methodology the target patients were mainly part of a quite old popula...

There is a need of independent prospective studies about modern generation of hip resurfacing implants. The aim of this propective observational study was to compare the functional outcomes and revision rates with hip resurfacing arthroplasty and total hip arthroplasty and to present the preliminary results at 2 years. Patients included were recruited prospectively in the Partial Pelvic Replace...

This study evaluated the feasibility of using published data from more than one register to define the performance of different hip implants. In order to obtain estimates of performance for specific types of hip system from different register, we analysed data from the annual reports of five national and one Italian regional register. We extracted the number of implants and rates of implant sur...

Hip arthropathy in haemophilic patients is disabling for hip and other common target joints. Even if bleedings in the hip are not frequent, femoroacetabular alterations may affect the functional ability of patients at a very young age. A haematologic prophylaxis combined with an adequate lifestyle and regular and low-traumatic physical activity are the keys to preventing such arthropathy. In th...

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