Girdlestone procedure for avascular necrosis of the hip in an intravenous drug user

The Girdlestone procedure is an excision arthroplasty of the hip. Rarely used nowadays, it was required in a young patient following discovery of avascular necrosis of the femoral head as a result of septic emboli from infective endocarditis in an intravenous drug user. This procedure was deemed nec...

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Autores principales: Maguire, Nicola, Robertson, Bernard, Henman, Philip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25107940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rju039
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description The Girdlestone procedure is an excision arthroplasty of the hip. Rarely used nowadays, it was required in a young patient following discovery of avascular necrosis of the femoral head as a result of septic emboli from infective endocarditis in an intravenous drug user. This procedure was deemed necessary based on poor cardiac function and anaesthetic risk. During this case report we will discuss investigations performed, the procedure and post-procedure course.
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spelling pubmed-41260362014-08-08 Girdlestone procedure for avascular necrosis of the hip in an intravenous drug user Maguire, Nicola Robertson, Bernard Henman, Philip J Surg Case Rep Case Reports The Girdlestone procedure is an excision arthroplasty of the hip. Rarely used nowadays, it was required in a young patient following discovery of avascular necrosis of the femoral head as a result of septic emboli from infective endocarditis in an intravenous drug user. This procedure was deemed necessary based on poor cardiac function and anaesthetic risk. During this case report we will discuss investigations performed, the procedure and post-procedure course. Oxford University Press 2014-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4126036/ /pubmed/25107940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rju039 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2014. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126036/
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