[Multi-morbidity and perioperative risk of total hip endoprosthesis].

Paper describes the worldwide first-time implantation of an artificial joint by Themistocles Gluck (1853-1942) in May, 22 th 1890 in Berlin. After that in a retrospective study are represented multimorbidity and perioperative complications of 2,000 patients with total hip joint replacement performed between 1979 and 1987. The fatality was 1.6%, the rate of fatal lung-embolism 1.85%. Value of actual thromboembolism-prophylaxis and intensive-care-unit is discussed.