Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 2 Revision surgery characteristics
From: Managing early complications in total hip arthroplasty: the safety of immediate revision
Variables | Total (n = 42) |
|---|---|
Duration (min) | |
Index surgery [median (range)] | 45 (30–80) |
Revision surgery [median (range)] | 20 (11–55) |
Interval surgery [median (range)] | 27 (8–100) |
Total surgery [median (range)] | 92.5 (60–195) |
New antibiotic injection n (%) | 5 (12) |
Stem revision n (%) | 13 (30.9) |
Smaller (≤ 2 size difference) | 1 |
Smaller (≤ 1 size) | 3 |
Same size | 3 |
Bigger (≥ 1 size) | 3 |
Lateralized | 3 |
Acetabular cup revision n (%) | 1 (2.4) |
Same size | 1 |
Head change n (%) | 41 (97.6) |
Smaller (≤ 2 size difference) | 2 |
Smaller (≤ 1 size) | 24 |
Same size | 6 |
Longer (≥ 1 size) | 5 |
Longer (≥ 2 size difference) | 4 |