Restoration of femoral offset, rotation centers, limbs length equality of Chinese total hip arthroplasty patients

Abstract

Objective: To explore the restoration of femoral offset, rotation centers, limbs length equality of Chinese total hip arthroplasty patients with careful preoperative surgical planning, the appropriate prosthesis and skillful manipulation combined with a variety of verification tests during the operation.

Methods: There were 92 hips (from 92 patients)  surgery was performed by the same surgeon using the posterlateral approach by careful preoperative surgical planning. Appropriate prosthesis was chosen  determining the reasonable femur osteotomy location, skillful manipulation and paying attention to every detail combined with a variety of verification tests and preoperative measurements during the operation. We evaluated the offset and rotation centers of the healthy (not performed) side and the operated side, the preoperative and postoperative limbs length discrepancy and analyzed the change of femoral offset, rotation centers and limbs length discrepancy of THA patients by self-control.

Results: We found that the preoperative and postoperative femoral offset was basically not changed, the postoperative rotation centers had a tendency to the medial and inferior of the original rotation centers, the limbs length discrepancy and Harris Hip Score (HHS) were improved much more than before.

Conclusions: Careful preoperative surgical planning, the appropriate prosthesis and skillful manipulation combined with a variety of verification tests during the operation is significantly correlated to the remarkable radiological and clinical results of THA patients.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.301.3635

How to cite this:Liu YP, Hao YD. Restoration of femoral offset, rotation centers, limbs length equality of Chinese total hip arthroplasty patients. Pak J Med Sci 2014;30(1):116-121.   doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.301.3635

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