The Complication Profiles Following Surgical Dislocation of the Hip

Abstract

The complication profiles of 45 hips of 44 cases that applied surgical dislocation by various indications in our institute between 2006-2013 were retrospectively reviewed. Our series consisted of 27 males and 17 females. Mean age of the cases was 31,9 (range, 11-58) years with mean follow-up time of 56,9 months (range, 13-106). The number of cases with detected complication was 27. Within our series 14 hips developed only 1 complication, 1 hip had 2, 10 hips had 3 and 2 hips had 4 individual complication profiles. Regarding Dindo-Clavien classifications of complication profiles, 17 hips were evaluated as Grade I (38%), 3 hips were Grade IIa (7%), 2 hips were Grade IIb (4%) and 5 hips were Grade III (11%). The presence of few number of or the absence of major complications in a surgical method does not make it absolutely safe. Surgical dislocations can be applied only when trochanteric complications are considered and the patients should be well informed by their orthopeadic surgeons