This complaint is from a literature source.The following literature cite has been reviewed: alshammari mo, de petrillo g, epure lm, huk ol, zukor dj, antoniou j.Outcomes of ceramic-on-ceramic bearing total hip arthroplasty: a minimum 10-year follow-up study.J arthroplasty.2023 apr 19:s0883-5403(23)00363-7.Doi: 10.1016/j.Arth.2023.04.018.Epub ahead of print.Pmid: 37084924.Objective and methods: authors evaluated 4th generation ceramic bearings in total hip arthroplasty (tha), reviewing long-term (minimum 10-year follow-up) clinical outcomes and ceramic-on-ceramic bearing specific complications to determine implant survival in 273 hips (234 patients).All patients received a depuy cementless porous-coated pinnacle acetabular cup (273 hips) and either a depuy tri-lock (171 hips), s-rom (64 hips), prodigy (20 hips), corail (15 hips), or summit (3 hips) cementless femoral stem.Patients were evaluated clinically and radiographically postoperatively at 6 weeks, 1 year, and every 2 years thereafter.Results: at the latest follow-up, of the 234 patients (273 hips), 8 patients (8 hips) died from causes unrelated to tha arthroplasty and 6 patients (6 hips) had undergone revision surgery.One woman presented with a venous obstruction of the entire lower extremity.She was further diagnosed with a painless pseudotumor.She refused revision surgery following a spontaneous improvement of the venous obstruction and reduction in the pseudotumor size.There were 9 patients (3 men and 6 women) who reported squeaking.Only one of these patients developed squeaking bilaterally.The noise was constantly reproducible in the hips of 5 patients.There were 4 patients who reported occasional squeaking, one of them being unable to reproduce the noise during the follow-up visit.Squeaking started on average at 21.9 months after tha (range, 7.7 to 48.2 months).One of the 5 patients who had constant audible bearings, a 54-year-old woman, underwent revision for squeaking at 5.4 years postoperatively, which included a metal/highly cross-linked polyethylene head and liner change to resolve squeaking.This patient reported that squeaking during gait began after a fall that happened 2 years post-tha.Her cup inclination and anteversion angles pre-revision were 58 degrees and 19 degrees, respectively.Post-revision, the cup inclination and anteversion angles were at 21.5 degrees and 20.1 degrees, respectively.If the acceptable ranges are defined to be 15 degrees to 35 degrees of anteversion, and 35 degrees to 55 degrees of inclination, only 2 (20%) of the 10 squeaking hips were in the acceptable range.However, there was no statistically significant difference in the postoperative values for hhs and ucla survey scores, nor in the inclination and anteversion of the cup between squeakers and non-squeakers.There were 5 hips revised at a mean 4.6 years (range, 0.1 to 7.1).As already noted, one revision was squeaking related.Squeaking was also reported by 8 other patients, but these did not require revision.Other reasons for revision were early infection in 2 cases, stem loosening in 1 case, and stem fracture in 2 cases (no additional details or treatments provided were given by the authors).The survival analysis for any causes for revision as an endpoint was (b)(4).Patients experiencing squeaking are as follows (all possessed 36mm dia.Heads): sex, head, age, complication, inclination, anteversion, malpositioned cup.F, 36, 50, squeaking/revised, 58.0, 19.0, yes.M, 36, 61, squeaking, 40.3, 10.9, yes.F, 36, 57, squeaking, 39.8, 12.0, yes.F, 36, 63, squeaking, 47.1, 13.4, yes.M, 36, 41, squeaking, 48.2, 12.3, yes.F, 36, 57, squeaking, 43.0, 15.3, no.F, 36, 50, squeaking, 39.8, 12.0, yes.M, 36, 44, squeaking, 33.3, 13.0, yes.F, 36, 47, squeaking bilateral, 36.0, 16.8, no.F, 36, 46, squeaking bilateral, 35.7, 14.9, yes.Other complication: 1 deep vein thrombosis and pseudotumor.2 early infection.1 femoral stem aseptic loosening.2 femoral stem implant fracture.
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