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The survivorship of the link endo-rotational hinge total knee arthroplasty: 5–12-year follow-up of 100 patients

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Introduction

There is a paucity of survival data reporting the medium to long-term outcome of the LINK® Endo-Model® rotational hinge total knee arthroplasty (ERH-TKA). Such information is essential when counselling patients and predictors of survival would help inform patients of their likely outcome.

Materials and methods

A series of patients, who received an ERH-TKA, with a minimum follow-up of 5 years, were retrospectively identified from an established arthroplasty database. Data were collected from paper and electronic patient records. This included patient demographics, indication for surgery, complication rates and revision status. Our primary outcome of interest was joint implant survival.

Results

One hundred patients underwent an ERH-TKA over an 11-year period. There were 66 females and 34 males, with a mean age of 73.8 years and 67.6 years, respectively. Indications were classified into primary (n = 41), aseptic revision (n = 47) and two-stage infective revision (n = 12). The median follow-up was 8.2 (range 5–12) years. One-year implant survival amongst the cohort was 99%, falling to 95% at 5 years. Overall, there were eight revisions during the follow-up period. Considering only cases of aseptic failure, survival was 97% at 5 years and all failures occurred amongst revision cases. Implant failure was greater following revision arthroplasty but this was not statistically significant (p = 0.97). Cox regression analysis identified male sex to be the only independent predictor of failure (hazard ratio 1.75, 95% CI 1.04–31.82, p = 0.04) after adjusting for confounding variables.

Conclusions

The ERH-TKA has a good medium- to long-term survival rate but male patients are nearly twice as likely to undergo revision, compared to females, and should be made aware of this preoperatively.

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Abbreviations

ERH-TKA:

Endo-Model® rotational hinge total knee arthroplasty

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    Leo R. Brown

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA, Scotland, UK

    Nicholas D. Clement & Steffen J. Breusch

  3. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Deborah J. MacDonald

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Leo R. Brown, Nicholas D. Clement, Deborah J. MacDonald and Steffen J. Breusch declare that they have no conflicts of interest. The University of Edinburgh received a research grant from Aquilant Medical UK, which was utilised to partially fund a knee research salary post at the authors’ institution. This person did not contribute to any noteworthy extent to this study and is not part of the author group.

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Brown, L.R., Clement, N.D., MacDonald, D.J. et al. The survivorship of the link endo-rotational hinge total knee arthroplasty: 5–12-year follow-up of 100 patients. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 139, 107–112 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-018-3064-0

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