title: Total hip replacement ad modum Lubinus: five- to seven-year follow-up.
abstract: A study of 141 total hip replacements with the Lubinus prosthesis is presented. The complications in the total patient group and the results in 129 hips with follow-up times from 5 to 7 years are described. Three prostheses (2.1%) have been reoperated because of loosening. There were radiographic signs of definitive loosening in 2.3%. Varus positioning was associated with an increased loosening rate. No infections have been encountered, and none of the hips have undergone excision arthroplasty. Ninety-two percent of the hips were free from significant pain and 78% had a total range of motion exceeding 160 degrees. THR was performed, without subsequent infections, in a conventional operating room using prophylactic penicillin and gentamicin cement. We propose that the surgical technique of exposure and the cement injection technique with a partial vacuum in the medullary canal may be responsible for the low incidence of femoral prosthesis loosening (0.7%).
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008124:Locomotion; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D013997:Time Factors