title: Follow-up of intertrochanteric osteotomy of the hip during a 25-year period.
abstract: In 1984, in reporting follow-up on 67 hips in 61 patients who underwent intertrochanteric osteotomies for osteoarthritis of the hip, we found that between 12 and 15 years after osteotomy, 34% (23) of the 67 hips remained functional and the remainder had been converted to an arthroplasty. We now report on the fate of those osteotomies over a 25-year period. Ten patients with 10 osteotomies did not require an arthroplasty, having died without requiring conversion to total hip arthroplasty at an average of 18.3 years after osteotomy (range: 11 to 24.1 years). Two others were living at an average of 25.2 years after osteotomy without requiring conversion. Thus, for 18% of the hips, no further hip surgery was performed. For the remaining 55 hips in 49 patients, the osteotomy had served for an average of 9.8 years (range: 1.3 to 26.1 years) before requiring arthroplasty. The cumulative probability of osteotomy survival was 57.8% (standard error: 6.0%) at 10 years, 20.0% (standard error: 4.9%) at 20 years, and 5.7% (standard error: 2.9%) at 25 years by Kaplan-Meier survivorship analysis.
authors.affiliation: Orthopaedic Associates of Portland, Me, USA.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: McGrory
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Estok
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D011336:Probability; D011379:Prognosis; D011859:Radiography; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D013997:Time Factors