Radiologists in Spain have successfully performed a procedure for managing complications in hip replacement in four patients, according to a press release issued by the Spanish Society of Medical Radiology (SERAM).
The technique is described as percutaneous injection of periprosthetic cement under fluoroscopic or CT control (femoroplasty, or FMP) and was developed in 2010. The procedure is indicated in patients in whom surgical prosthetic replacement should be considered but is contraindicated. The technique has been used in France and the Netherlands, but this is the first time it has been used in Spain, SERAM said.
"[The procedure] has aroused the curiosity of many Spanish centers due to its relative simplicity and benefits. In addition, it can also be used successfully in other arthroplasties such as shoulder, ankle, knee," said Dr. Xavier Tomas Batlle, lead author of a recent study in Radiologia that described its use.
![Overview of the study design. (A) The fully automated deep learning framework was developed to estimate body composition (BC) (defined as subcutaneous adipose tissue [SAT] in liters; visceral adipose tissue [VAT] in liters; skeletal muscle [SM] in liters; SM fat fraction [SMFF] as a percentage; and intramuscular adipose tissue [IMAT] in deciliters) from MRI. The fully automated framework comprised one model (model 1) to quantify different BC measures (SAT, VAT, SM, SMFF, and IMAT) as three-dimensional (3D) measures from whole-body MRI scans. The second model (model 2) was trained to identify standardized anatomic landmarks along the craniocaudal body axis (z coordinate field), which allowed for subdividing the whole-body measures into different subregions typically examined on clinical routine MRI scans (chest, abdomen, and pelvis). (B) BC was quantified from whole-body MRI in over 66,000 individuals from two large population-based cohort studies, the UK Biobank (UKB) (36,317 individuals) and the German National Cohort (NAKO) (30,291 individuals). Bar graphs show age distribution by sex and cohort. BMI = body mass index. (C) After the performance assessment of the fully automated framework, the change in BC measures, distributions, and profiles across age decades were investigated. Age-, sex-, and height-adjusted body composition reference curves were calculated and made publicly available in a web-based z-score calculator (https://circ-ml.github.io).](https://img.auntminnieeurope.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/05/body-comp.XgAjTfPj1W.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
