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Factors Affecting Aseptic Loosening of 4750 Total Hip Replacements
Total hip replacement is a successful surgery, that fails at a rate of approximately 10% at ten years from surgery.
Causes for failure are mainly aseptic loosening of one or both components partially due to wear of articular surfaces and partially to design.
- How long your hip replacement will last is affected by gender, age, pathology, type of the prosthesis and skill of the surgeon.
- It will be worse if you are a male patient, younger than 40 years, affected by sequelae of congenital diseases, operated by a surgeon who performed less than 400 total hip replacements.
- Furthermore, cemented cups and stems (less expensive) have a higher risk of failure compared with uncemented ones (more expensive).
Source:
Barbara Bordini; Susanna Stea; Manuela De Clerico; Sergio Strazzari; Antonio Sasdelli; Aldo Toni Posted: 10/18/2007; BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders © 2007 Bordini et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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