Loosening of the cup after low-friction arthroplasty in patients with acetabular protrusion. The importance of the position of the cup.

Between 1972 and 1990, we performed 168 primary low-friction arthroplasties in 125 patients with acetabular protrusion. Twelve hips were lost to follow-up within eight years and eight which became infected were excluded from the final study. Of the 148 hips remaining, 62 with a mild protrusion were classified as group 1, 54 with moderate or severe protrusion as group 2 and, after 1985, 32 with moderate and severe protrusion which required bone grafts as group 3. The mean follow-up was 18.3 years (3 to 24) for group 1, 17.4 years (8 to 22) for group 2 and ten years (8 to 13) for group 3. There were 31 revisions of the cup, 12 in group 1 and 19 in group 2. According to the Kaplan-Meier analysis the overall rates at 20 years were 21 +/-10.79% in group 1 and 37 +/- 11.90% in group 2. There have been 43 radiological loosenings: 22 in group 1, 21 in group 2 and none so far in group 3, at ten years. The overall loosening rates at 20 years were 42 +/-14.76% in group 1 and 49 +/- 19.50% in group 2. The grafts were well incorporated in all group-3 hips, and the bone structure appeared normal after one year. The distance between the centre of the head of the femoral prosthesis and the approximate true centre of the femoral head was less in group 3 than in groups 1 and 2 (p < 0.01). According to the Cox proportional-hazards regression this was the single most important factor in loosening of the cup (odds ratio 1.11; 95% CI 1.05 to 1.18/mm). Better results were obtained in moderate and severe protrusions reconstructed with bone grafting than in hips with mild protrusion which were not grafted.

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