Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty Using an Anterior Approach and a Fracture Table: Short-term Results From a Community Hospital
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Materials and Methods
The short-term results of a consecutive series of the patients of 5 surgeons who underwent primary total hip arthroplasty from an anterior approach using a fracture table for a period of 2 years were studied. Four of the 5 community practice surgeons at one hospital began using this new minimally invasive procedure exclusively for all of their primary hip arthroplasty procedures after October 2004, and the remaining surgeon started to use the technique in October 2005. All of these surgeons had
Results
The average surgical time was extremely long at 164 minutes, and the average surgical estimated blood loss was also high (858 mL), with an average length of stay of 3.2 days. These patients received an average of 2.4 U of blood postoperatively, with most of the patients receiving 1 to 3 predonated autologous units (average, 1.7 U) (Table 3). Seventy-two percent of the patients were discharged home, 96% were not restricted in weight bearing, and no patient was asked to observe dislocation
Discussion
There have been few reports of the results of minimally invasive hip arthroplasty performed by noninnovators 3, 4, 11, 12 and no publications of the results of minimally invasive hip arthroplasty performed by community practice surgeons. This study was intended to determine the early postoperative outcomes of a minimally invasive total hip procedure in a consecutive series of patients at a single community hospital. It is important to determine the results of minimally invasive hip arthroplasty
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2021, Journal of ArthroplastyCitation Excerpt :An additional, potential reason for earlier fractures in the DA cohort is due to the predilection for implanting undersized stems through this approach. This issue has been evaluated in the literature and leads to postoperative subsidence with subsequent “atraumatic” PFFs, almost all of which occur in the early postoperative period [15,24,40–42]. Despite these factors that can cause earlier PFF in the DA approach, we found that the overall incidence of PFF between DA, PA, and LA approaches was similar (Table 1).
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