Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip: A Journey of 25 Years - A Case Report

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Mir Sadat-Ali

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Mir Sadat-Ali
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, and King Fahd Hospital of the University, AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia

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Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) occurs 1 in 1,000 babies and progressive subluxation occurs in up to 50% of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Our patient was prematurely with suspected CP and dislocated hip. Initial conservative treatment and open reduction was expected to contain the dislocated head of femur in the acetabulum but did not. At the age of 4 years the hip started to subluxate and the second surgery only corrected half of the problem. At this time surgery to increase the depth of the acetabulum should have been done. As she grew up problem of the hip did not leave her and after 15 surgeries landed with arthritis for total hip replacement.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 29, Jun 2020
Accepted: Wed 29, Jul 2020
Published: Mon 10, Aug 2020

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© 2023 Mir Sadat-Ali. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.08.10