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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 222-223 |
In defence of Girdlestone excision arthroplasty: A comment on 'Unusual way of loosened total hip arthroplasty treatment with an Austin Moore endoprosthesis'
NK Sinha1, A Bhardwaj2, M Poduval3, BS Rao4
1 Department of Orthopedics, Melaka-Manipal Medical Collage, Melaka, Malaysia
2 Senior Lecturer (Orthopaedics), Newcastle University Medicine, Malaysia
3 Department of Orthopedics, JIPMER, Pondicherry, India
4 Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
| Date of Web Publication | 13-May-2014 |
Correspondence Address:
Dr. N K Sinha
Department of Orthopedics, Melaka-Manipal Medical Collage, Melaka
Malaysia
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DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.132388
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Sinha N K, Bhardwaj A, Poduval M, Rao B S. In defence of Girdlestone excision arthroplasty: A comment on 'Unusual way of loosened total hip arthroplasty treatment with an Austin Moore endoprosthesis'. J Postgrad Med 2014;60:222-3 |
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Sinha N K, Bhardwaj A, Poduval M, Rao B S. In defence of Girdlestone excision arthroplasty: A comment on 'Unusual way of loosened total hip arthroplasty treatment with an Austin Moore endoprosthesis'. J Postgrad Med [serial online] 2014 [cited 2023 Sep 25];60:222-3. Available from: https://www.jpgmonline.com/text.asp?2014/60/2/222/132388 |
Sir,
We read with interest the article titled 'Unusual way of loosened total hip arthroplasty treatment with an Austin Moore endoprosthesis'. [1] We commend the extensive surgical effort of the authors made in a crunch situation. It was a case of failed hip prosthesis with bony erosion and peri-prosthetic pathological fracture. The authors have enlisted two options for this case and have preferred the second one with exchange prosthetic replacement. It included the meticulous removal of cement followed by application of cemented Austin Moore prosthesis and dual plating. However, the use of prosthetic head in acetabulum with the bone loss has resulted in protrusio acetabuli [fourth picture]. At present; the patient is mobile on crutch. There is no mention of the presently available range of movement of the hip joint. However, as the fourth picture suggests, there may be little mobility in the hip joint due to sinking of the prosthetic head and peri-articular ossification.
What would have been the final outcome if the authors had chosen the first option and managed the pathological fracture of proximal femur with minimal hardware as needed? It would have essentially behaved as Girdlestone excision arthroplasty (GEA). This surgical option has a good long-term outcome in the failed hip cases. [2],[3],[4],[5] Patient's satisfaction in terms of the pain relief and mobility is high, when GEA is performed as a secondary procedure in a unilateral case like the present case. [2] It is a time-tested procedure to the control infection in cases of infected prosthetic replacement. However, it can be used in case of implant loosening. [3],[5] It obviates the use of cement and prosthesis, which can have prosthesis-related complications and higher incidence of infection. Presence of retained bone cement does not impact wound healing and the late outcome of the surgery in cases of implant loosening. [3] GEA does not stress the eroded acetabulum. Half of the operated case can walk with no aid or one stick, if postoperative skeletal traction is continued for 6 weeks. [2] The satisfaction percentage as noted by the patient has ranged from 59.3 to 95.5. [3],[4],[5]
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