Hydroxyapatite-coated femoral arthroplasties: a long-term study through 29 Corail prostheses explanted during a ten-year survey.
In our department, all the patients over 65 years of age with a displaced intracapsular fracture of the upper femur (type III and IV of the Garden's classification) are treated with a femoral hemiarthroplasty (Figs. 1a & 1b). This practice is relatively universal among the European traumatologic centers. Two prospective and randomized trials, published in 2000, reported a high rate of reoperation when treating these fractures with osteosynthesis (36% and 38% of the cases), thus indicating arthroplasty may be preferred.
Hardy
Dominique C R
DC
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium.
Frassinet
Patrick
P
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip; D001344:Autopsy; D017886:Durapatite; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005260:Female; D005270:Femur Head / Q000293:injuries*; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016348:Osseointegration; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D013997:Time Factors
D017886:Durapatite