Table 4: Union rates and surgical complications including fracture, dislocation, subsidence, loosening, and infection recurrence.
|
Study (year) |
Union Rate (%) |
Average time to union (weeks) |
Intraoperative Fracture (%) |
Postoperative Fracture (%) |
Dislocation (%) |
Stem Subsidence (%) |
Aseptic Loosening (%) |
Infection Recurrence (%) |
Reinfection free success rate |
|
Fink and Oremek [24] |
98.7 |
-- |
11.8 |
1.3 |
6.6 |
6.6 |
0 |
6.6 |
93.4 |
|
Levine, et al. [15] |
96 |
11.5 |
8.7 |
-- |
8.7 |
4.3 |
4.3 |
13.0 |
87.0 |
|
Lim, et al. [12] |
100 |
10.6 |
13.0 |
8.7 |
4.3 |
4.3 |
0 |
4.3 |
96 |
|
Morshed, et al. [26] |
100 |
15.6 |
23.1 |
-- |
31 |
23.1 |
7.7 |
23.1* |
76.9 |
|
Petrie, et al. [13] |
87 |
-- |
-- |
5.9 |
3.9 |
-- |
-- |
2.9 |
97.1 |
|
Shi, et al. [28] |
95.8 |
12 |
-- |
4.2 |
8.3 |
2.1 |
0 |
4.2 |
95.8 |
|
Weighted Average |
94 |
12.0 |
12.6 |
4.4 |
7.0 |
6.0 |
1.1 |
6.0 |
94.1 |
*All patients with infection recurrence had systemic immune compromise.