The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2010;92:1715-1719.
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Alumina-on-Alumina Total Hip Arthroplasty

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

Young-Kyun Lee, MD1, Yong-Chan Ha, MD1, Jeong Joon Yoo, MD1, Kyung-Hoi Koo, MD1, Kang Sup Yoon, MD1 and Hee Joong Kim, MD1

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yeongeon-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, South Korea. E-mail address for H.J. Kim: oskim{at}snu.ac.kr

Investigation performed at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

* Original Publication Yoo JJ, Kim YM, Yoon KS, Koo KH, Song WS, Kim HJ. Alumina-on-alumina total hip arthroplasty. A five-year minimum follow-up study. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005;87:530-5.

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 of less than $10,000 from Seoul National University Hospital Research Fund (grant number 06-03-063). Neither they nor a member of their immediate families received payments or other benefits or a commitment or agreement to provide such benefits from a commercial entity.

Abstract We previously reported the five-to-six-year results of the use of third-generation alumina-on-alumina bearings in a consecutive series of 100 primary cementless total hip arthroplasties. This report presents the longer-term outcomes of these same bearings, at a minimum of ten years postoperatively. Eighty-six of eighty-eight hips available for the study retained the original bearings at the time of the latest follow-up. Thirteen hips were associated with noise, and six hips demonstrated fretting of the femoral neck on radiographs. Two hips required a change of the bearings because of a ceramic head fracture. The ten-year survival rate of the alumina-on-alumina total hip prostheses, with revision of any implant for any reason as the end point, was 99.0%. On the basis of those results, we concluded that the rate of survival of primary cementless total hip prostheses with third-generation alumina-on-alumina bearings is excellent at ten years. However, the risk of ceramic fracture, noise, and impingement between the metal neck and the ceramic liner should be a concern to surgeons, and patients should be informed of these risks before surgery.

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


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