Effect of the high femoral osteotomy upon the vascularity and blood supply of the hip joint

Journal Article · Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984 · Surg. Gynecol. Obstet.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6832976

Day, B; Shim, S S; Leung, G

This investigation was done to study the effects of high femoral osteotomy upon the vascularity and blood supply of the hip and to further our knowledge of its physiologic basis. We have used established methods of study, including bone scans, microangiography, isotope clearance and perosseous venography, and based upon the results of these studies, we have reached certain conclusions. First, high femoral osteotomy increases the blood flow and vascularity in the hip joint, the femoral head and neck and the great trochanter. Second, bone scanning techniques using /sup 99m/Tc labeled diphosphonate have shown increased uptake in the femoral head and neck after high femoral osteotomy. The localization was done using a Digital Gamma III computer, and the activity on the osteotomy side at two weeks was 3.5 times as great as on the control side. By 16 weeks postoperatively, there was still two times as much activity on the osteotomy side. Third, microangiography showed increased vascularity both at the osteotomy site and in the femoral head and neck and the greater trochanter on that side. Such an increase in vascularity first became evident two weeks after osteotomy and persisted during the four month period studied. Fourth, the results of the /sup 99m/Tc diphosphonate clearance study showed a 25 per cent increase in femoral head blood flow on the operative side. Fifth, perosseous venography of the femoral head and neck showed a marked increase in venous drainage through the osteotomy site in the immediate postosteotomy stage.

• Research Organization: Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of British Columbia Health Sciences Center Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
• OSTI ID: 6832976
• Journal Information: Surg. Gynecol. Obstet.; (United States), Vol. 158:5
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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