Experience with total hip replacement at Ochsner Clinic.
Eighty-four patients had 97 total hip replacement procedures. Standard Müller components were used in the first 40 operations; the Aufranc-Turner acetabular component was used with the Müller-femoral component in the final 57 procedures. The trochanter was detached only in exceptional circumstances. Seventy-six patients with 87 replacements were followed up for 12 to 34 months. Complications, occasionally multiple, occurred in more than one third of our patients; thromboembolic disease was the most frequent. No significant wound complications occurred; there was no infection. In 71 replacements the results were excellent; in 15, good; and in 1 fair.
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007595:Joint Prosthesis / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D008145:Louisiana; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000401:mortality; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000209:etiology