The treatment of cartilage defects in the hip joint is challenging due to the complexity of the joint’s anatomy. If left untreated, osteoarthritis develops rapidly, leading to the need for joint replacement surgery (arthroplasty). A number of procedures, referred to as “joint-preserving surgeries,” have been described with the aim of eliminating or at least delaying the need for a prosthesis. Among these procedures, open surgeries are frequently preferred, and typically involve dislocating the hip joint (safe joint dislocation) to perform a cartilage transplant on the defect site.
Hip arthroscopy, on the other hand, is a modern procedure that allows for the performance of cartilage transplantation via a minimally invasive approach and stands out for its advantages, such as a shorter postoperative recovery period and a lower complication rate. In 2016, at the EFORT (European Federation of National Associations of Orthopedics and Traumatology) Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, where we had the opportunity to present an oral presentation, and subsequently published as a scientific article in collaboration with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onur Kocadal, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Budak Akman, and Prof. Dr. Uğur Şaylı—we frequently apply this surgical technique in selected cases. In this video, you will see an animation and the details of the surgical procedure we performed on a 47-year-old patient in collaboration with Dr. Ömer Yonga and Dr. Barış Kadıoğlu.