Has the Use of Fixation Techniques in THA Changed in This Decade? The Uncemented Paradox Revisited.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite existing studies favoring cemented fixation for patients older than 75 years, a trend toward increased use of uncemented fixation has been described in a 2013 study that used arthroplasty registry data from 2006 to 2010. Updated summarized data are needed beyond 2010 to investigate contemporary trends in the usage of uncemented fixation, especially in patients older than 75 years, and to draw attention to a potential continuing conflict between trends in fixation choice and reported revision risk. Thus, healthcare policy and practice can change and surgeons can make better implant fixation choices.

Questions/purposes

(1) Has the percentage of primary THAs performed with uncemented fixation changed since 2010? (2) Has the percentage of primary THAs performe

SUBMITTER: Bunyoz KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7282602 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature