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Displaced intracapsular neck of femur fractures in mobile independent patients: total hip replacement or hemiarthroplasty?

Injury 1999 June
The aim of this study was to compare the outcome of total hip replacement (THR) with hemiarthroplasty in mobile and socially independent patients with displaced intracapsular fractured neck of femur. Thirty-two patients who had been treated by THR were reviewed after a mean of 3.7 years and compared with 42 patients who had been treated by hemiarthroplasty who were reviewed at 3.9 years. At follow-up none of the THRs had required revision whereas 38% of the hemiarthroplasties had required conversion to THR. Six percent of THRs had dislocated. The modified Harris Hip score rated 86% of THRs as 'good' or 'excellent,' whereas only 12% of the remaining hemiarthroplasties achieved a similar rating. Seventy-seven percent of the patients who had received a THR estimated that they could walk more than a mile compared to 27% of the remaining hemiarthroplasties. THR gave a vastly superior functional outcome compared to hemiarthroplasty in this group of patients.

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