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The surgical management options for bilateral hip osteoarthritis comprise staged or single‐anaesthetic bilateral total hip replacements (THRs). The key issue of contention in performing the latter remains safety. We compared… Click to show full abstract
The surgical management options for bilateral hip osteoarthritis comprise staged or single‐anaesthetic bilateral total hip replacements (THRs). The key issue of contention in performing the latter remains safety. We compared unilateral, staged bilateral and single‐anaesthetic bilateral THR with the hypothesis that there would be no difference between these three practices using mortality risk, functional outcome and revision rate as the primary outcome measures.
Keywords:
single anaesthetic;
anaesthetic bilateral;
bilateral primary;
primary total;
total hip
Journal Title: ANZ Journal of Surgery
Year Published: 2018
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Journal Title: ANZ Journal of Surgery
Year Published: 2018
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