The failure experience of complex total hip arthroplastyin osteopetrosis: case report and literature review

Lujue Dong; Wei He; Shaochuan Huo; Cheng Guo; Chi Zhou; Qunqun Chen; Hongyu Tang; Xinying Xie; Haibin Wang

The failure experience of complex total hip arthroplastyin osteopetrosis: case report and literature review

Int J Clin Exp Med. 2015 Sep 15;8(9):14727-31. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Lujue Dong¹, Wei He², Shaochuan Huo¹, Cheng Guo¹, Chi Zhou², Qunqun Chen¹, Hongyu Tang², Xinying Xie², Haibin Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou 510405, China.
² The First Clinical Medical School, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou 510405, China.

PMID: 26628954
PMCID: PMC4658843

Abstract

There is rare literature elaborating the complex total hip arthroplasty (THA) in patients with osteopetrosis who experienced malunion from femoral neck fracture. We have summarized the failure experience of the complex THA in osteopetrosis. Learned from the resurgery in the case reported by this paper, we recommend to highlight the initial stability of the prosthesis and not to overestimate the potency of fracture healing in the complex THA in osteopetrosis.

Keywords: Albers-schonberg disease; Osteopetrosis; complex THA; femoral neck fracture.