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Proximal Femoral Replacement in Patients with Non-Neoplastic Conditions

¹ Rothman Institute of Orthopaedics, Thomas Jefferson Hospital, 925 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. E-mail address for J. Parvizi: Parvj{at}aol.com
² Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street S.W., Rochester, MN 55905

Investigation performed at the Rothman Institute of Orthopaedics at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Disclosure: In support of their research for or preparation of this work, one or more of the authors received, in any one year, outside funding or grants in excess of $10,000 from Stryker Orthopaedics. In addition, one or more of the authors or a member of his or her immediate family received, in any one year, payments or other benefits in excess of $10,000 or a commitment or agreement to provide such benefits from a commercial entity (Stryker Orthopaedics). Also, a commercial entity (Stryker Orthopaedics) paid or directed in any one year, or agreed to pay or direct, benefits in excess of $10,000 to a research fund, foundation, division, center, clinical practice, or other charitable or nonprofit organization with which one or more of the authors, or a member of his or her immediate family, is affiliated or associated.

Methods: A review of computerized databases from two institutions identified forty-eight patients with a mean age of 73.8 years who had undergone the placement of a modular megaprosthesis with or without bone-grafting. The indication for proximal femoral replacement was a periprosthetic fracture in twenty patients, reimplantation because of a deep infection in thirteen, a failed arthroplasty in thirteen, nonunion of an intertrochanteric fracture in one, and radiation-induced osteonecrosis with a subtrochanteric fracture in one. Three patients died before the minimum two-year follow-up interval had elapsed, and two additional patients were lost to follow-up. The mean duration of follow-up for the remaining study group of forty-three patients was 36.5 months.

Results: At the time of follow-up, there was a significant improvement in function as measured with the Harris hip score (p < 0.05). The proximal femoral replacement achieved an excellent or good functional outcome in twenty-two of the forty-three hips. The functional outcome was found to be fair in ten hips and poor in the remaining eleven. Ten patients required a reoperation or revision because of at least one complication. With revision used as the end point, the survivorship of the implant was 87% at one year and 73% at five years.

Conclusions: Patients with severely compromised bone stock in whom the use of a conventional prosthesis is precluded because of an inability to achieve adequate fixation may be candidates for proximal femoral replacement. Our short-term results suggest that this is a viable salvage procedure for these patients.

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

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