Principles of bone and tissue banking in Saudi Arabia: 10-year experience report.

Background: The role of bone and tissue banking is well known to meet the ever-growing need of bone and soft tissue allografts. Strict guidelines have been established to ensure high standard and minimize complications related to bone transplantation.

Methods: The Bone Bank in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC), affiliated with the Saudi Council of Organ Transplantation, was inaugurated in 2010, and it has since been an integral part of the KFSH&RC organ retrieval team.

Noncemented Total Hip Arthroplasty in Sickle-Cell Disease: Long-Term Results.

Background: Avascular necrosis of the femoral head is a well-known sequela of sickle-cell disease (SCD) requiring a surgical intervention that comes with technical challenges.

Methods: Uncemented hip arthroplasty for avascular necrosis of the femoral head due to SCD was carried out for 101 patients (133 hips) between 2000 and 2012. The duration of follow-up ranged from 5 to 17 years (mean, 14.

Simultaneous bilateral total hip arthroplasty in Morquio syndrome.

A 16-year-old girl who had Morquio syndrome presented with severe bilateral hip pain and limited mobility because of bilateral hip osteoarthritis and fixed flexion deformities. She was wheelchair bound for the previous 6 months. Cervical spine flexion-extension views showed mild subluxation (<3 mm), and there was thoracolumbar spine kyphosis.

Revision of type III and type IVB acetabular defects with Burch-Schneider anti-Protrusio cages.

Extensive bone loss in severe acetabular deficiencies can make repair with acetabular shells impossible. We retrospectively analyzed mid-term to long-term results of acetabular revision with Burch-Schneider reinforcement cages in 33 hips in patients with a mean age of 59.03years after a mean follow-up period of 6.