A hemiarthroplasty is a partial hip replacement used to treat a hip fracture. Rarely, it may also be used to treat a hip damaged by arthritis. Your hip joint is often described as a “ball-in-socket” ...

The common belief is that hemiarthroplasty is too expensive a treatment for elderly patients with femoral neck fractures. However, according to the results of a randomized trial, when the total costs ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hemiarthroplasty was associated with a lower risk of hip dislocation at 1 year compared with THA. Researchers ...

Bipolar hemiarthroplasty (BHA) is a surgical treatment for femoral neck fractures of the hip. An artificial joint with two bearings replaces the damaged joint. The bearings allow the head to swivel ...

Globally, hip fractures are among the top 10 causes of disability in adults. For displaced femoral neck fractures, there remains uncertainty regarding the effect of a total hip arthroplasty as ...

Metal-on-glenoid contact — particularly cobalt-chromium — has been the usual suspect, blamed for abrasion, erosion, and glenoid-sided pain that turns postoperative optimism into clinic-room ...

New method of scanning shows effects of treatment on lung function ...

Total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) and hemiarthroplasty are two of the many treatment modalities available for osteoarthritis of the shoulder. There is ongoing debate regarding which of the two ...

NEW DELHI: A team of doctors at Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh successfully performed a rare hip replacement surgery to correct the fractured neck of the left femur of a 102-year old patient recently.