Total Hip Arthroplasty for Coxarthrosis in Children and Adolescents when Conservative Surgery is Impossible

During the period from 1970 to 2015 total hip arthroplasty was performed in 60 patients (71 surgeries) aged 14 - 18 years at the CITO department for child bone pathology and adolescent orthopaedics. In 11 patients bilateral surgical interventions were performed. The majority of patients had systemic hereditary diseases of the skeleton. Principal indications for total hip arthroplasty were elaborated and optimum implant design with regard for the nosology and patient’s age were determined. Mean follow up period made up 9.5 (1 - 23) years. Preoperative evaluation results by Harris Score varied from 28 to 50 points, postoperative - from 79 to 91 points. Good results were achieved in 91.6% of observations.