Direct anterior approach hip arthroplasty: How to reduce complications - A 10-years single center experience and literature review

Figure 1 A 55 years old man undergone bilateral one-stage direct anterior approach for total hip arthroplasty. A: Postperative X-ray control; B: Radiological evidence of left femoral stem loosening after 4 years from the surgery; C: Revision of the loosed femoral stem.

Figure 2 A 48 years old man undergone bilateral one-stage direct anterior approach for total hip arthroplasty; intraoperative right femur cerclage due to calcar incomplete fracture.

Figure 3 Posterior hip dislocation in 80 years old woman one year after direct anterior approach for total hip arthroplasty.

Figure 4 A 61 years old woman undergone direct anterior approach for total hip arthroplasty. A, B: Lateral femoral wall fracture showed at intraoperative control and then fixed with cerclage; C: Evidence of undiagnosed trochanteric fracture at postoperative control; D: X-rays control after periprosthetic plate and screws.