background: the infection after total hip arthroplasty is one of the major and catastrophic complications and often cause multiple procedures, heavy cost and life threatens and disability for the patient. in this study, we report our experience about infected total hip arthroplasty. methods: in this study, among patients referred to kashani hospital in isfahan, iran from 2001 to 2007, 659 patie...

background:    previous studies suggest total hip arthroplasty may have some benefits compared to hemi-arthroplasty for displaced intracapsular femoral neck fractures in patients more than 60 years of age. the primary research question of our study was whether in-hospital adverse events, post-operative length of stay (los) and mortality in patients 60 year of age or older differed between total...

according to limitations in blood product resources and to prevent unnecessary transfusions and afterwards complications in perioperative period of total hip arthroplasty, authors administered fibrinogen concentrate in a pilot randomized clinical trial to evaluate bleeding and need to blood transfusion in preoperative period. thirty patients (3-75 years old) with asa physical status class i or ...

periodic evaluation and monitoring the health and economic outcome of joint replacement surgery is a common and popular process under the territory of joint registries in many countries. in this article we introduce the methodology used for the foundation of the national iranian joint registry (ijr) with a joint collaboration of the social security organization (sso) and academic research depar...

  Background:    Previous studies suggest total hip arthroplasty may have some benefits compared to hemi-arthroplasty for displaced intracapsular femoral neck fractures in patients more than 60 years of age. The primary research question of our study was whether in-hospital adverse events, post-operative length of stay (LOS) and mortality in patients 60 year of age or older differed between tot...

developmental dysplasia of the hip (ddh) or congenital hip dysplasia (cdh) is the most prevalent developmental childhood hip disorder. it includes a wide spectrum of hip abnormalities ranging from dysplasia to subluxation and complete dislocation of the hip joint. the natural history of neglected ddh in adults is highly variable. the mean age of onset of symptoms is 34.5 years for dysplastic dd...

juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the leading cause of hip replacement in young children. however, arthroplasty in this population is challenging with several concerns about quality of the growing bone, young age for revision surgery, and difficulties in potential several revisions. in this study we introduce a case of a 12-year old who is one of the youngest patients to undergo revision hip art...

Ceramic bearing surfaces are being increasingly used in young patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty. However,failures have been reported including fractures even with the newer third generation ceramics. The recommendedtreatment for fracture of ceramic bearing surfaces is complete synovectomy and revision total hip arthroplasty.However, disappointing results have also bee...

Two stage total hip arthroplasty revision surgery includes foreign material debridment, insertion of antibiotic impregnatedcement spacer, and finally, reimplantation of the prosthesis. This review has aimed to evaluate the efficacy of antibioticimpregnated cement spacers in infection control and eradication in arthroplasties.A total of 85 articles on total hip arthroplasty wer...

purpose: developmental dysplasia of the hip (ddh) increases the risk of secondary degenerative changes and subsequent total hip arthroplasty. the postoperative quality of life in patients with ddh who have been born and grown with this disability and adapted to it during the life, is one of the most challenging issues. this study aimed to compare the quality of life of patients with ddh before ...