Femoral head ostectomy

He's had hip dysplasia.

He's had FHO, and so we're constantly trying to keep him comfortable.

Right, and keep that

hip going so he can stay up, go to the food bowl, go to the water bowl, get up and play, enjoy life.

Once the joint is already remodeled and arthritic, rotating the socket is unlikely to solve the problem because we've already got other sources of pain and degeneration within the joint.

Femoral head and neck excision is also called FHNE or FHO is a salvage procedure.

So in this surgery, the femoral head and neck are completely removed.

And this is obviously going to remove that painful contact between the femoral head and the acetabulum.

And speaking of cat pelvises, I know I have seen a few capital Fiseal fractures in some of these like overweight young male cats, atraumatic, kind of crazy.

With these, do you recommend like FHO for them? Kind of what's your game plan with those guys?

Gold standard is always going to be THR.

Just, yeah, it's one of those things that like, you know, did they do super well with an FHO? Personally, I think yes.

And it's a heck of a lot better than a broken capital physis.

But I think that the diagnosis of those is interesting because I tend to see a lot of practitioners that when they do have this capital physio fracture, which is basically that top of the femur has fractured.