PURPOSE To study the possible causes of intra-operative metaphyseal fractures in elderly patients undergoing hemiarthroplasty for displaced intracapsular femoral neck fracture. METHODS 36 men and 228 women aged 61 to 89 years with 273 displaced femoral neck fractures underwent hemiarthroplasty using a hydroxyapatite ceramic-coated Furlong bipolar prosthesis. Anteroposterior and lateral radiog...

Background The modularity in total hip arthroplasty (THA) allows orthopaedic surgeons for an exact reconstruction of hip biomechanical parameters especially in revision and tumor arthroplasty. Modular structured femoral stems using taper junctions showed increased implant breakage in the recent past. Presentation of the hypothesis We hypothesize that a novel modular stem-neck-interface leads ...

This paper describes a 3-dimensional (3D) automated preoperative planning method of femoral component (stem) for total hip arthroplasty (THA). The stem planning is formulated as a optimization problem which determines implant parameters such as size, position, and rotation. An objective function is defined using the fitness between the femoral canal and the stem surface. In addition to the obje...

OBJECTIVE To radiographically evaluate the quality of cementation and implantation technique using a polished, triple-tapered femoral stem in total hip arthroplasty (THA). METHOD Retrospective study with radiographic evaluation of 86 hips in 83 patients who underwent to primary THA with the triple-tapered cemented femoral stem C-Stem (DePuy Orthopedics, Warsaw, Indiana). Cases with at least o...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We previously evaluated a new uncemented femoral stem designed for elderly patients with a femoral neck fracture and found stable implant fixation and good clinical results up to 2 years postoperatively, despite substantial periprosthetic bone mineral loss. We now present the medium-term follow-up results from this study. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this observational prosp...

A patient with a history of total knee arthroplasty and 5 subsequent revisions presented with pain. His preoperative construct consisted of a revision implant with porous in-growth stem extensions. He was indicated for revision surgery for a painful implant with progressive arthrofibrosis. The surgery proceeded uneventfully until we were unable to loosen the proximal portion of the ingrown femo...

We performed a three-year radiostereometric analysis (RSA) study of the Elite Plus femoral component on 25 patients undergoing primary total hip replacement. Additional assessments and measurements from standard radiographs were also made. Subsidence of the stem occurred at the cement-stem interface. At 36 months the subsidence of the stem centroid was a mean of 0.30 mm (0.02 to 1.28), and was ...

Introduction: Total hip arthroplasty (THA) after proximal femoral fixation is a challenging procedure due to possible hardware-related complications. Case presentation: A 78-year-old female with hip osteoarthritis had a proximal femoral osteotomy fixed using a blade plate in the same femur 41 years ago. A two-step approach was planned. After a challenging...