The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2006;88:2210-2215.
doi:10.2106/JBJS.E.00810
© 2006 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow [Supplementary Material]
Right arrow Letters to the Editor: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when Letters to the Editor are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow E-mail this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My File Cabinet
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Rights and Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Grübl, A.
Right arrow Articles by Gottsauner-Wolf, F.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Grübl, A.
Right arrow Articles by Gottsauner-Wolf, F.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Facebook   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty with the Rectangular Titanium Zweymüller Stem

A Concise Follow-up, at a Minimum of Fifteen Years, of a Previous Report*

Alexander Grübl, MD1, Catharina Chiari, MD1, Alexander Giurea, MD1, Martin Gruber, MD1, Alexandra Kaider, MSc2, Martina Marker, MD1, Harald Zehetgruber, MD1 and Florian Gottsauner-Wolf, MD3

1 Department of Orthopaedics, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. E-mail address for A. Grübl: alexander.gruebl{at}meduniwien.ac.at
2 Alexandra Kaider, MSc Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
3 Florian Gottsauner-Wolf, MD Department of Orthopaedics, General Hospital Krems, Mitterweg 10, A-3500 Krems, Austria

Investigation performed at Department of Orthopaedics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Grübl A, Chiari C, Gruber M, Kaider A, Gottsauner-Wolf F. Cementless total hip arthroplasty with a tapered, rectangular titanium stem and a threaded cup: a minimum ten-year follow-up. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2002;84:425-31.

The authors did not receive grants or outside funding in support of their research for or preparation of this manuscript. One or more of the authors received payments or other benefits or a commitment or agreement to provide such benefits from a commercial entity (Zimmer, Inc., Winterthur, Switzerland). No commercial entity paid or directed, or agreed to pay or direct, any benefits to any research fund, foundation, educational institution, or other charitable or nonprofit organization with which the authors are affiliated or associated.

* Original Publication

Between October 1986 and November 1987, 208 total hip arthroplasties were performed with use of the cementless Zweymüller stem and a threaded cup in 200 consecutive patients. Of 102 patients (108 hips) who were available for follow-up at a minimum of 180 months postoperatively, eighty-three (eighty-nine hips) had the primary joint replacement still intact. No stem had been revised because of aseptic loosening, but we found various degrees of osteolysis around sixteen (18%) of the implants. The probability of survival of the stem at fifteen years was 0.98 (95% confidence interval, 0.96 to 1.00). The probability of survival of the cup was 0.85 (95% confidence interval, 0.79 to 0.91).

Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level IV. See Instructions to Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Facebook Facebook   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?