Compared with concordant approaches, discordant surgical approaches between primary and revision total hip arthroplasty have no impact on dislocation, re-revision, reoperation or complication rates, according to published results.
Joshua R. Harmer, MD, and colleagues at Mayo Clinic, Rochester retrospectively analyzed data on 705 patients (mean age of 65 years) who underwent both primary and revision THA at the same academic center between 2000 and 2018 with at least 2 years of follow-up.
In primary cases, 49% of THAs (n = 345) were performed with a posterior approach, 47% (n = 331) were