SAN DIEGO — Patients with diabetes mellitus who undergo total hip arthroplasty demonstrate an increased risk for health care use, including increased length of stay, and acute renal failure, according ...

During your initial knee or hip replacement surgery, the prosthetic (artificial) components were either cemented (attached with bone cement) or hammered into the bone so they could eventually attach ...

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 ...

If you are in your 90s, is hip replacement surgery too dangerous for you? That depends, new research shows: While elderly patients have more complications and higher death rates after such a procedure ...

The timeline for recovery from knee revision surgeries is not as regimented as it is for primary knee replacements, and can vary quite a bit from person to person. It may take up to 12 months to fully ...

Once the decision has been made that surgery is indicated, it is especially important to evaluate the surgical risks associated with operating on the very elderly. [18] Assessing this risk and ...