Case Studies

Case Study of Painful Hardware in Single Stage Hip Revision

Case Study of Painful Hardware in Single Stage Hip Revision Patient is a 55 year old female who came in with severe pain. Patient explained that three years ago she had an intertrochanteric fracture of the left hip and an Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) performed by an outside institution. She stated that she had been...

Case Study of Infected Hardware with Two Staged Hip Reconstruction

Case Study of Infected Hardware with Two Staged Hip Reconstruction Patient is a 75 year old female who came to us with severe left hip pain after having an Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) of the left hip. Patient came in with x-rays to review, as shown below, and the x-rays indicate that the hardware had failed. Patient was...

Case Study of Painful Hardware

Case Study of Painful Hardware Patient is a 70 year old male who came in complaining of right hip pain. He had stated that he had been experiencing this pain for a few years and that it has been worsening. He had informed at that he had received a right Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) ten years...

Case Study of Hip Arthritis and Bursitis

Case Study of Hip Arthritis and Bursitis Patient is an 80 year old male who has a history of prostate cancer, hypertension, and spinal stenosis. Patient had first come in early 2013 complaining of right hip pain that he had been experiencing for a few years. He stated that he had previously tried physical...

KSAT Texas – Hips in the News

KSAT Texas – Hips in the News This is the story of how Dr. Karkare helped a woman after her procedure with another surgeon did not work out so well. Joanne needed a new hip. Doctors replaced her old joint with a titanium stem-and ball and socket, but although she was careful to follow what doctors...

Case Study of Periprosthetic Fracture

Case Study of Periprosthetic Fracture Patient is a 65 year old female that came in about 1 year after having a right Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) and presented with a displaced femur fracture. Patient required an Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) procedure to heal the fracture. Due to the patient’s...

ABC in Cedar Rapids Iowa

ABC in Cedar Rapids Iowa Seventy-two year old Joanne Welsch is a nurse and was on her feet all the time, until her hip started to hurt. Joanne needed a new hip. Doctors replaced her old joint with a titanium stem-and ball and socket, and she was careful to follow what doctors call hip...

Case Study of Recurrent Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) Dislocation

Case Study of Recurrent Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) Dislocation Patient is a 55 year old male who came to us complaining of recurrent right hip prosthesis dislocation. Patient stated that this had been occurring since he had a right Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) a few years ago done at an outside institution. Patient had come in...
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