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May 2, 2012
by Harish Hosalkar, M.D.
Scientific Literature Reviews
In spite of good neonatal screening programs and a global push towards early diagnosis of infants with DDH, we continue to see children with DDH and dislocated hips that need surgical intervention....
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April 5, 2012
by Harish Hosalkar, M.D.
Scientific Literature Reviews
Surgical intervention including open reduction of hip in children of walking age is often fraught with secondary surgical procedures as the failure is not infrequent. The resultant persistent dysplas...
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March 1, 2012
by Harish Hosalkar, M.D
Scientific Literature Reviews
Although Hip dysplasia is diagnosed using both clinical and sonographic findings, using ultrasound alone may over-diagnose DDH in the early days/ first week of life.
Bialik et al conducted a study...
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February 2, 2012
by Harish Hosalkar, M.D
Scientific Literature Reviews
There are wide differences of opinion about the value of screening infants for hip dysplasia. Almost everyone agrees that the newborn examination is important, but even that misses about one in 10 di...
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January 2, 2012
by Harish Hosalkar, M.D
Scientific Literature Reviews
Children with innocent hip clicks are often referred to orthopedic surgeons by pediatricians or anxious parents. This is sometimes necessary to evaluate the possibility of hip dysplasia. However, hig...
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November 22, 2011
Scientific Literature Reviews
Comments:
A report was published online in Journal of Pediatrics Sept. 29 prior to the print version. The study is from Germany where all babies have free access to routine pediatric hip examina...
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November 1, 2011
by Harish Hosalkar, M.D
Scientific Literature Reviews
A recent study from Kyushu University, Japan, evaluated deformity of the entire pelvic bone in hip dysplasia patients and its relation to the hip socket (acetabulum). [1]
The authors carefully...
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October 3, 2011
by Harish Hosalkar, M.D.
Scientific Literature Reviews
A recent study from Gosford Hospital, Australia, evaluated the effects of different screening programs for DDH on the frequency of late presentation of hip dislocations. Three independent review au...
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September 1, 2011
by Harish S. Hosalkar, M.D.
Scientific Literature Reviews
A recent study evaluated the use of computed tomography (CT) versus magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine hip position in the spica cast after closed reduction of dislocated hips in infants...
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August 1, 2011
by Harish S. Hosalkar, M.D.
Scientific Literature Reviews
A recent study from Asahikawa Medical University, Japan, evaluated the intermediate to long-term results of ‘Periacetabular Osteotomy’ (cutting the bone around the acetabulum/ socket to t...
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