Abstracts Posters SICOT-SOF meeting Gothenburg 2010 _2_

Poster
Topic: Arthroplasty - Hip
Abstract number: 24542
EVALUATION OF HARRIS HIP SCORE FOLLOWING TOTAL HIP
ARTHROPLASTY: A REPORT OF SHORT TERM RESULTS OF USING SHORT
STEM HIP PROSTHESIS
Dariush GOURAN SAVADKOOHI 1 , Babak SIAVASHI 1 , Seyyed Siamak
REZANEZHAD 1 , Ehsan PENDAR 1 , Mohammad GOURAN SAVADKOOHI 2
1 Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran (IRAN), 2 Shahid
Behshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran (IRAN)
Introduction: Total hip arthroplasty has become a successful procedure in
Orthopaedic surgery. A wide variety of modifications have been made to traditional
approaches to improve outcomes. One of these modifications is to apply short stem
implants instead of standard long implants. In this study we compared short-term
outcomes between patients undergoing THA with either of these kinds of
implants.Methods: Between 2007 and 2008, we had about 52 cases of osteoarthritis
(OA) which were candidates for THA. Standard long-stem implants were applied in
30 cases while short stem implants were used in remaining 22 cases. All implants
were Cementless and posterior approach was applied in all cases by the same
surgeon. Mean age of cases were between 48-76 yrs old. Results: Mean
preoperative Harris hip score was 42.5 (±0.5) in the long stem group and 44.7 (± 0.3)
in short stem group. Mean postoperative score was 91 (±0.4) in short stem group
while it was 86.3 (± 0.2) in long stem group. The comparison between two groups
showed that improvement in Harris score was significantly greater in short stem
group (P value