By Casey Tingle Compared with patients who were at a normal or pre-obese weight, patients who were obese experienced a significantly increased complication rate when they underwent total hip arthroplasty using a direct anterior approach, according to study results. Researchers retrospectively reviewed early perioperative data for 210 patients with osteoarthritis (OA) or avascular necrosis who underwent unilateral total hip arthroplasty (THA) … Continue reading Obese patients experienced increased complication rate with direct anterior THA