Total Hip Arthroplasty: Past, Present, and Future. What Has Been Achieved?

Total Hip Replacement Arthroplasty – Past, Present and Future

Since the introduction of total hip replacement arthroplasty in the United Stated in the early 1970s, this has become one of the most frequently performed and successful procedures available to the orthopaedic surgeon. It has revolutionized the treatment of patients with disorders of the hip. Excellent function can be achieved in over 95% of patients with minimal risk of complications. As a res...

Mizaj past, present and future

Temperament (Mizaj), as an individual factor, has great importance in traditional medicine and its use in diagnosis and treatment of diseases, as well as the individual lifestyle is very common. Since medicine moves toward Personalized Medicine, the root of individual differences will find its position in different aspects of medicine in early future. In traditional medicine, temperament is ...

Computer-assisted total hip arthroplasty: the present and the future

Tuberculosis: Past, Present and Future

  Background Tuberculosis (TB) is the second-most common cause of death from infectious disease (after those due to HIV/AIDS). Roughly one-third of the world's population has been infected with M. tuberculosis, with new infections occurring in about 1% of the population each year. People with active TB can infect 10-15 other people through close contact over the course of a year. Materials and ...

Cementless total hip replacement: past, present, and future

Cementless total hip replacement (THR) is rapidly being accepted as the surgery for arthritic diseases of the hip joint. The bone-ingrowth rate in porous-type cementless implants was about 90% over 10 years after surgery, showing that biological fixation of cementless THR was well maintained on both the stem and cup sides. As for the stress shielding of the femur operated using a distal fixatio...