Pelvic tilt is minimally changed by total hip arthroplasty

Murphy, William S.; Klingenstein, Greg; Murphy, Stephen B.; Zheng, Guoyan (2013). Pelvic tilt is minimally changed by total hip arthroplasty. Clinical orthopaedics and related research, 471(2), pp. 417-421. Springer 10.1007/s11999-012-2581-3

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BACKGROUND

While surgical navigation offers the opportunity to accurately place an acetabular component, questions remain as to the best goal for acetabular component positioning in individual patients. Overall functional orientation of the pelvis after surgery is one of the most important variables for the surgeon to consider when determining the proper goal for acetabular component orientation.

QUESTIONS/PURPOSES

We measured the variation in pelvic tilt in 30 patients before THA and the effect of THA on pelvic tilt in the same patients more than a year after THA.

METHODS

Each patient had a CT study for CT-based surgical navigation and standing and supine radiographs before and after surgery. Pelvic tilt was calculated for each of the radiographs using a novel and validated two-dimensional/three-dimensional matching technique.

RESULTS

Mean supine pelvic tilt changed less than 2°, from 4.4° ± 6.4° (range, -7.7° to 20.8°) before THA to 6.3° ± 6.6° (range, -5.7° to 19.6°) after THA. Mean standing pelvic tilt changed less than 1°, from 1.5° ± 7.2° (range, -13.1° to 12.8°) before THA to 2.0° ± 8.3° (range, -12.3° to 16.8°) after THA. Preoperative pelvic tilt correlated with postoperative tilt in both the supine (r(2) = 0.75) and standing (r(2) = 0.87) positions.

CONCLUSIONS

In this population, pelvic tilt had a small and predictable change after surgery. However, intersubject variability of pelvic tilt was high, suggesting preoperative pelvic tilt should be considered when determining desired acetabular component positioning on a patient-specific basis.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute for Surgical Technology & Biomechanics ISTB [discontinued]

UniBE Contributor:

Zheng, Guoyan

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

0009-921X

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

Guoyan Zheng

Date Deposited:

12 Jun 2014 16:09

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:31

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/s11999-012-2581-3

PubMed ID:

23001502

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/46486

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/46486

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