[Development of thromboses in hip joint endoprostheses. A study with color-coded duplex ultrasound]

After 102 hip replacements in a surgical technique that avoids bone-marrow intravasation as much as possible, color-coded duplex sonography revealed thigh thrombi in only 4 cases without any signs of thrombosis. This rate is lower than that found in all other comparable studies. The investigations stress the role of bone-marrow intravasation in the induction of deep vein thrombosis in hip replacement. With an optimal surgical technique, thigh thrombi can be greatly reduced in hip replacements, which have a higher rate than all other operations.