Screening Protocol for detection of ischaemic disease of the hip

Description: SCREENING PROTOCOL FOR DETECTION OF ISCHAEMIC DISEASE OF THE GROWING HIP AND PREVENTION OF LEGG-CALVÉ-PERTHES DISEASE. Nuno Craveiro Lopes, M.D., Almada-PORTUGAL LCPD is perhaps a multifactorial disease, but what is sure today is that you need two or more ischaemic episodes, occurring within some months to provoke the illness. Those episodes are symptomatic: There is pain and signs one can detect if one is aware of. We call that stage before the onset of LCPD, Ischaemic Disease of the Growing Hip (IDGH).