... : partly due to incomplete records, partly due to insufficient knowledge of the forces acting on the hip replacement. Computation models developed by the University of Twente and UMC St. Radboud can ...
... in the quality of bearing and stability in the next generation of devices used in total hip replacements with the information we have gathered from this study," said Galante. "More and more patients ...
... hospital in New York State with a statistically lower rate of surgical site infection (SSI) compared to the state average for hip replacement/revision surgery...
... also aimed to determine whether functional improvement, pain, and satisfaction 5 years after the second hip replacement differed between obese patients and patients of healthy weight. Their results, ...
Men who are overweight or obese are much more likely need a hip replacement for osteoarthritis than men who are of normal weight, finds research published online ahead of print in Annals of Rheumatic ...
... Engineering of Living Tissues.
Total knee and hip replacements typically last about 15 years ... younger patients, this means a second surgery to replace the first artificial joint. With approximately 40 ...
... age 75.2) who had severe osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. Participants' arthritis symptoms and functional status ... surgery, including 30 knee and 21 hip replacements. None of these patients died, 17 ...
... may make subsequent surgeries more feasible than total hip replacement. Some doctors think it's the best option for ... athlete, remembers the exact moment his hip gave out: Valentine's Day 2006. "I bent ...
... in place in the original replacement surgery - had the lowest revision rates. For hip replacements the highest revision rates were experienced by women who had undergone hip resurfacing rather than ...
... (AP) -- One in 75 patients who gets a knee or hip replaced must get it replaced again within three years, new research finds, although the studies underscore a question: ...
... Strategies to Reduce Waiting Times for Joint Replacement in Ontario," published in the November issue of Medical ... wait time was five months for total hip replacement and eight months for total knee ...
... be eager to take advantage of technological innovations, but for older individuals, a conventional hip replacement is generally more appropriate."
The researchers analyzed data for the first 537 hip ...
Hip resurfacing is often seen as a modern alternative to the more conventional total hip replacement, but new data suggest that a patient's age and gender are key to the operation's success.
... much higher complication rate -- more than 50 percent -- in hip replacement patients regarded as superobese," explains ... (http://newsblog.mayoclinic.org/2009/02/20/superobese-struggle-with-hip-and-knee- ...
... researchers have been studying the results for 204 total hip replacements performed at Rush in the mid-1980s ... 4 percent of the 124 implants. Of the original 204 hip replacements, five cases, or 2.5 ...
