High Survivorship and Few Complications With Cementless Total Wrist Arthroplasty at a Mean Followup of 9 Years.
CONCLUSION: Cementless fourth-generation TWA improves pain while generally preserving the preoperative arc of motion. The cumulative probability of remaining free from revision at 14.7 years after the index procedure is 77.7% (95% CI, 62.0%-91.4%). Future studies should compare alternative approaches for patients with endstage wrist arthritis; such evaluations-which might compare TWA implants, or TWAs with arthrodesis-will almost certainly need to be multicenter, as the problem is relatively uncommon.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV, therapeutic study.
PMID: 28721601 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Gil JA, Kamal RN, Cone E, Weiss AC Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research
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