Recent news on Hip Arthroplasty

REMINDER: ORLive Presents: Two Procedures: Small Incision Total ...  -  May 3, 2007
WM Experts (press release),Total hip arthroplasty reforms the hip joint and, in turn, leads to a better quality of life. Due to disease processes or, in some cases, repetitive trauma,

Total Hip Arthroplasty and Hemiarthroplasty in Mobile, Independent ...  -  May 1, 2007
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)To The Editor: On reading the Level-I study by Baker et al. entitled "Total Hip Arthroplasty and Hemiarthroplasty in Mobile, Independent Patients with a

Failure Mechanisms of Ceramic Total Hip Arthroplasty  -  May 1, 2007
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)To The Editor: What appears most evident in the paper "Ceramic Failure After Total Hip Arthroplasty with an Alumina-on-Alumina Bearing" (2006;88:780-7),

Y.-S. Park, Y.-W. Moon, and S.-J. Lim reply:  -  May 1, 2007
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)Ceramic failure after alumina-on-alumina total hip arthroplasty. Poster exhibit at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons;

Operative Repair of Bilateral Spontaneous Gluteus Medius and ...  -  May 1, 2007
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)22 found degenerative tears of the gluteus medius or minimus in 20% of 176 patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty, and Bunker et al.

Proximal Femoral Replacement in Patients with Non-Neoplastic ...  -  May 1, 2007
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)Background: Numerous factors may give rise to the loss of femoral bone stock that can be encountered in revision hip arthroplasty.

A Practical Guide to Assigning Levels of Evidence  -  May 1, 2007
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)...has failed or those with one that has not failed, are compared for the frequency of an intervention such as hip arthroplasty with or without cement.

The Cognitive Effects of Fat Embolus Syndrome Following an ...  -  May 1, 2007
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)Delayed neurological deficit after total hip arthroplasty. Anesth Analg.1998; 87:1209 -10.[CrossRef][Medline]. Bernard GR, Artigas A, Brigham KL, Carlet J,

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