Partial hip replacement -Common in the elderly. The socket of the hip joint is not replaced Instead, the ball of the joint is replaced. Hip resurfacing- surgery that takes less bone from the joint.

A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal reported that seniors who underwent a hip hemiarthroplasty and were discharged to home, where they received added care, were 43% less ...

Developmental dysplasia (instability) of the hip in childhood may lead to surgery as an adult. And a broken hip from trauma could require a partial or complete replacement.

Aging Health. 2011;7(6):803-811. The Mayo Clinic's experience with hip replacements in patients 90 years of age or older includes 65 patients from 1970 to 1997. [35] They describe a 46% rate of ...

In a study of 1,453,493 patients having an elective THA between 1991 and 2008, Cram et al. demonstrated that the average patient age has increased from 74.1 to 75.1 years, the prevalence of ...

Dear Doctors: Our grandmother, who is 91, fell and broke her left hip. She wound up needing a partial hip replacement. I've read that hip fractures are dangerous for older adults. Can you explain why?

Two days after my mother was admitted to the community hospital, a local orthopedic surgeon, someone we met only an hour before the surgery, performed a hemiarthroplasty (partial hip replacement ...

"What we now know is that within two years of having either a total or partial hip replacement, there's no difference, and possibly more harm, with total replacements," said lead author Dr. Mohit ...

Updated: Mar 11, 2015 / 05:29 PM EDT HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — An innovative surgical option for total hip or partial knee replacement lets doctors be more accurate and precise.