Multiple previous surgeries, infection, and preoperative radiation: a cause for arterial rupture in closed reduction?

Nogler, M; Krismer, M; Waldenberger, P; Rachbauer, F; Bach, C · J Arthroplasty · 2001

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We report a patient who underwent revision hip arthroplasty with preoperative radiation after a septic loosening of the primary hip prosthesis. Subsequently the patient presented with a dislocation of the hip. During the closed reduction with general anesthesia, a rupture of the arteria profunda femoris occurred. The patient was treated by angiographic obliteration of the arteria profunda femoris followed by an open reduction and augmentation of the acetabular component.

Medical subject headings

Anatomy