ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of patients' age on the delay between diagnosis and surgical treatment of proximal femoral fracturesMETHODS: This is a retrospective study, con-ducted at a tertiary university hospital, including all patients admitted with proximal femoral fractures between March 2013 and March 2014. The participants were categorized into four groups according to age levels. The groups were compared according to demographics, comorbidities, fracture type, trau-ma circumstances, and time between diagnosis and surgical procedureRESULTS: One hundred and sixty one patients were included, 37 adults and 124 elderly. Among adults, the mean delay between diagnosis and surgical procedure was 6.4±5.3 days; among elderly the delay was 9.5±7.6 days. There was a progressive increase in the delay from the young-adults group through the elderly individuals (Kruskal-Wallis: 13.7; p=0.003)CONCLUSION: In spite of being the patients most susceptible to complications due to surgical delay, the elderly individuals pre-sented the longest delays from admission to surgical treatment. Level of Evidence III, Retrospective Study.

ResumoComplicações em partes moles pós-artroplastia do quadril são suscetíveis de ocorrer, seja quando da artroplastia total, seja quando se utiliza a técnica de recapeamento da cabeça femoral, opção que se tornou popular em casos de pacientes jovens. Tanto a literatura ortopédica quanto a radiológica têm chamado a atenção para massas “sintomáticas” que surgem em partes moles adjacentes a próteses, denominadas pseudotumores inflamatórios ou lesões associadas a vasculite linfocítica asséptica. Os pseudotumores estão associados a dor, instabilidade, neuropatia e afrouxamento prematuro dos componentes da prótese, geralmente levando a cirurgias de revisão precoces e difíceis. A ressonância magnética tem papel muito importante na avaliação das alterações em partes moles do quadril doloroso pós-artroplastia, que variam desde coleções fluidas periprotéticas precoces até necrose e dano tecidual mais extenso.

AbstractSoft tissue complications following hip arthroplasty may occur either in cases of total hip arthroplasty or in hip resurfacing, a technique that has become popular in cases involving young patients. Both orthopedic and radiological literatures are now calling attention to these symptomatic periprosthetic soft tissue masses called inflammatory pseudotumors or aseptic lymphocytic vasculites-associated lesions. Pseudotumors are associated with pain, instability, neuropathy, and premature loosening of prosthetic components, frequently requiring early and difficult reoperation. Magnetic resonance imaging plays a relevant role in the evaluation of soft tissue changes in the painful hip after arthroplasty, ranging from early periprosthetic fluid collections to necrosis and more extensive tissue damage.

OBJETIVO: caracterizar perfil epidemiológico de pacientes submetidos à artroplastia do quadril, primária ou de revisão. MÉTODOS: estudo retrospectivo, descritivo, incluindo artroplastias do quadril realizadas no período de janeiro/2009 a junho/2012 em hospital de ensino de Belo Horizonte, MG. Os dados foram analisados por estatística descritiva. RESULTADOS: as operações ortopédicas correspondem a 45% das realizadas no Hospital e 1,4% à artroplastias do quadril. No período, foram realizadas 125 artroplastias do quadril, sendo 85 totais, 27 parciais e 13 revisões. Dentre os pacientes, 40% pertenciam ao sexo masculino e 60%, ao feminino. A idade variou entre 20 e 102 anos, com média e mediana de 73 e 76 anos. O diagnóstico mais frequente (82%) foi fratura de colo de fêmur por trauma de baixa energia causado por queda da própria altura. Em 13 operações de revisão, 12 necessitaram a remoção da prótese. A complicação infecciosa motivou a revisão em 54% das ocasiões, seguida de luxação (15%), fratura periprótese (15%) e soltura asséptica (15%). O agente etiológico de infecção foi identificado em 43% das ocasiões. O tempo médio de prótese até a operação de revisão foi oito meses. CONCLUSÃO: os pacientes submetidos à artroplastia do quadril são idosos, com fratura de colo fêmur, causada por queda da própria altura, que acometeu mais as mulheres. A incidência de soltura de prótese do quadril foi 10%. A principal causa de soltura foi a infecção. A incidência de revisão cirúrgica de artroplastia do quadril foi 10% e a incidência de mortalidade hospitalar nos pacientes submetidos à artroplastia do quadril foi 7,2%.

OBJECTIVE: to characterize the epidemiological profile of patients undergoing hip replacement, primary or revisional. METHODS: we conducted a retrospective, descriptive study, including hip arthroplasties performed from January 2009 to June 2012 in a Belo Horizonte teaching hospital, Minas Gerais State - MG, Brazil. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. RESULTS: orthopedic procedures represented 45% of the operations at the hospital in the period, 1.4% hip arthroplasties. There were 125 hip replacements, 85 total, 27 partial and 13 reviews. Among the patients, 40% were male and 60% were female. Age ranged between 20 and 102 years, mean and median of 73 and 76 years, respectively. The most frequent diagnosis (82%) was femoral neck fracture by low-energy trauma caused by falling form standing position. In 13 revision operations, 12 required removal of the prosthesis. The infectious complication led to revision in 54% of the time, followed by dislocation (15%), peri-prosthetic fracture (15%) and aseptic loosening (15%). The infection etiologic agent was identified in 43% of occasions. The average length of the prosthesis to a revision operation was eight months. CONCLUSION: patients undergoing hip arthroplasty are elderly, with femoral neck fracture caused by falling form standing position, affecting more women. The incidence of hip prosthesis loosening was 10%. The main cause of the infection was loosening. The incidence of revisional hip arthroplasty was 10% and the incidence of hospital mortality in patients undergoing hip arthroplasty was 7.2%.

Foram realizadas 27 artroplastias totais do quadril nos anos de 1988 e 1993, com próteses do quadril PCA (Anatômica com revestimento poroso) em 26 pacientes. O tempo médio de seguimento foi de nove anos. Foram excluídos desta avaliação sete quadris: um devido a infecção profunda precoce, dois referentes a pacientes falecidos de causa não relacionada a operação e quatro em que os pacientes não foram localizados para a presente avaliação. A idade média no tempo da operação foi de 53 anos. O diagnóstico pré-operatório foi de osteoartrite primária em nove pacientes, osteoartrite secundária em sete pacientes e artrite inflamatória em quatro pacientes. Os pacientes foram avaliados do ponto de vista clínico, radiográfico e subjetivo. As radiografias foram estudadas em relação a ocorrência de osteólise, migração ou afrouxamento da taça, desgaste do polietileno, desprendimento de contas, afundamento ou afrouxamento da haste femoral, reabsorção proximal do fêmur, reação periosteal, hipertrofia cortical e pedestal. Os resultados clínicos foram bons em 17 quadris (85%). Três quadris apresentaram maus resultados (15%) devido a migração e soltura da taça em dois casos e desgaste do polietileno em um caso. Houve concordância entre os resultados clínicos e subjetivos. Entretanto algumas alterações radiográficas observadas não se relacionaram com maus resultados.

Between 1988 and 1993 we performed 27 hip arthroplasties with the PCA prosthesis (Porous Coated Anatomic) in 26 patients. The average duration of the follow-up was nine years. We excluded seven hips from this review: one due early deep infection, two died of unrelated cause, and four were lost to follow-up evaluation. The average age at surgery was 53 years. The preoperative diagnosis was primary osteoarthritis in nine patients, secondary osteoarthritis in seven patients, osteonecrosis in six patients and inflammatory arthritis in four patients. The patients were analysed clinically, radiographically and subjectively. The X-Rays were studied for the occurrence of osteolysis, migration or loosening of the cup, wear of the polyethylene, beads shedding, subsidence or loosening of the stem, stress shielding, periosteal reaction and distal cortical hypertrophy. Seventeen hips (85%) were rated clinically good results. Three hips were rated poor (15%) due migration of the cup in two cases and wear of the polyethylene in one case. There were concordance between the clinical and the subjective results. However several radiographic findings were not related to poor results.