Dr Greenwald is Course Director, Current Concepts in Joint Replacement. Dr Greenwald has no relevant fi nancial relationships to disclose. Correspondence should be addressed to: A. Seth Greenwald, DPhil(Oxon), Current Concepts Institute, 2310 Superior Ave E, Cleveland, OH 44114 ([email protected]). doi: 10.3928/01477447-20100722-01 One step forward, 2 steps back is a concerning assessment of future...

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...

Currently, the median waiting time for total hip and knee replacement in Ontario is greater than 6 months. Waiting longer than 6 months is not recommended and may result in lower post-operative benefits. We developed a simulation model to estimate the proportion of patients who would receive surgery within the recommended waiting time for surgery over a 10-year period considering a wide range o...

INTRODUCTION Racial and ethnic disparities in rates of total joint replacement have been described, but little work has been done in well-established migrant groups. The aim of this study was to compare the rates of primary joint replacement for osteoarthritis for Italian and Greek migrants to Australia and Australian-born individuals. METHODS Eligible participants (n = 39,023) aged 27 to 75 ...

Joint replacement is currently on the rise with a high community burden. A registry was designed to evaluate the costs,possible complications, and rate of revisions as well as finding the most effective techniques, risk factors associatedwith poor results, indications for revision surgeries, and also demographic evaluation of patients undergoing jointreplacement surgery in Iran. Level of eviden...