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  • Title: Treatment of the septic hip with total hip arthroplasty.
    Author: Balderston RA, Hiller WD, Iannotti JP, Pickens GT, Booth RE, Gluckman SJ, Buckley RM, Rothman RH.
    Journal: Clin Orthop Relat Res; 1987 Aug; (221):231-7. PubMed ID: 3608303.
    Abstract:
    Forty-three patients, 23 with definite infection and 20 with probable infections before total hip arthroplasty (THA), were compared to 41 matched uninfected patients. The 43 infected patients were treated by 45 operative procedures: eight Girdlestone resections, 12 revisions of total hips, and 25 conversions from infected nontotal hip surgery to total hip arthroplasties. (Two revision THAs were converted to Girdlestones). The average follow-up period was 38.8 months, with a range of six-118 months. The statistically significant negative prognosticators were gross sepsis at surgery, number of previous operations, and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). The type of infecting organism did not affect the outcome. The prosthesis survival rate for total hip arthroplasties revised for sepsis was 83%. The prosthesis survival rate for other infected hips treated by total hip arthroplasty was 100%. All groups except Girdlestone resections improved postoperatively. While Girdlestone resection offered acceptable pain relief, total hip arthroplasty provided unequivocally superior function (p = 0.0001).
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