Short neck-preserving femoral stem for total hip arthroplasty: medium-term results of a 68-case series.

Introduction: Short stems seem to be a good alternative for young patients as they offer promising results, rapid recovery and preservation of metaphyseal bone stock. This is one of the few studies in the literature to report medium-term clinical-radiological results for short hip stems.

Materials And Methods: This prospective study evaluated 68 short femoral stems in 63 patients treated with total hip replacement.

Development of appropriateness criteria for hip arthroscopy in patients with femoroacetabular impingement.

Introduction: The use of hip arthroscopy as a treatment for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) has increased exponentially in recent years without robust evidence or consensus about the patients who benefit from it.

Objective: To develop explicit criteria for the appropriate indication of hip arthroscopy in FAI.

Method: A panel of experts was formed with 11 traumatologists following the RAND/UCLA method to identify the appropriateness criteria for hip arthroscopy in patients with FAI.

[Total reverse shoulder replacement. Evaluation of the clinical results and complications in a series of 52 cases].

Objective: To evaluate the clinical results and analyse the complications of total reverse shoulder replacement performed in our centre over an 8 year period.

Material And Method: A retrospective study was conducted on 50 patients (52 shoulders), with a mean age of 70.15 years (range 51 to 84 years) between December 2004 and December 2012, who received a total reverse shoulder replacement, all performed by the same surgeon.

Comprehensive care program for elderly patients over 65 years with hip fracture.

Objectives: To report the health outcomes of a multidisciplinary care program for patients over 65 years with hip fracture.

Patients And Methods: We have developed a care coordination model for the comprehensive care of hip fracture patients. It establishes what, who, when, how and where orthopedists, internists, family physicians, emergency, intensive care, physiotherapists, anesthetists, nurses and workers social intervene.

Multicentric and prospective study of the Summit cementless stem.

We assess early clinical and radiographic results of a multicentric and prospective study of 485 Summit porous-coated stems implanted in 5 hospitals. Of the patients, 171 had a hydroxyapatite (HA) coating and 314 had non-HA porous-coated stems. The mean follow-up was 4.