A clinical study of total hip replacement for highly dislocated hip.

Seven cases of total hip replacement for highly dislocated hip were followed up for an average of 3 years and 4 months. All of them revealed clinical improvement in pain and walking ability. Unfortunately, one of them underwent revisional operation 6 years after THR because of loosening.Although total hip replacement is sometimes chosen as a treatment for highly dislocated hip, it is important that those patients should be the old aged and the socket of total hip replacement should be set at the level of the original acetabulum.