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 ...

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...

  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...

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 ...

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...

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...