Advances in Hip Replacement Surgery

Dear Colleagues,

Total hip arthroplasty is one of the most successful surgical operations. It is not uncommon for patients to experience a natural or forgotten joint post-operatively. Many of the recent advances in hip arthroplasty are targeted at reducing the small number of patients that experience complications or are unsatisfied with surgery. Technology that improves the precision of implantation—robotics, navigation and patient-specific instrumentation (PSI)—has allowed for personalized alignment strategies as well as reducing surgical outliers. The recognition of the importance of the spino-pelvic alignment and how this affects the surgeon’s positioning of the components has led to dynamic pre-operative planning. Newer prosthetic designs, such as dual-mobility or large-head ceramic-on-ceramic articulations, are now being reported with mid- to long-term results. The benefits of these advances in reducing complications such as dislocation and prosthetic wear, as well as improving patient-reported outcomes and patient satisfaction, will be explored in this Special Issue.

Dr. William G. Blakeney
Prof. Dr. Markus Kuster
Guest Editors

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