Intermediate-Term Survivorship of Total Hip Arthroplasty With a Proximally Coated Tapered-Wedge Femoral Stem: A Retrospective, Multi-Center Registry Review

Background: Short tapered-wedge stems have been used frequently over the past decade, but long-term follow-up data are not readily available in the literature. Methods: A retrospective outcomes review was conducted to assess survivorship and clinical outcomes for the TRI-LOCK® Bone Preservation Stem (TRI-LOCK BPS; DePuy Synthes, Warsaw, IN, USA), a proximally coated, tapered-wedge femoral stem. Results: In a cohort of 2,040 hips, Kaplan-Meier survivorship estimates (95% CI {confidence interval}; N with further follow-up, where N is the number of hips remaining at each post-operative interval), with survivorship defined as no revision of any component for any reason were 96.6% (92.8%,98.4%; 45) at eight years under the clinical assumption and 98.6% (97.9%,99.1%; 90) at 14 years under the registry assumption. With survivorship defined as stem revision for any reason, estimates were 97.7% (93.7%,99.2%; 45) at eight years under the clinical assumption and 99.2% (98.6%,99.5%; 90) under the registry assumption. Mean Harris Hip Scores and WOMAC scores were 90.08 and 21.98, respectively, at 10 years postoperatively. Conclusion: Our evaluation demonstrates excellent construct and stem survivorship and clinical outcomes at intermediate-term postoperative follow-up.

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