According to published results, stem design was the strongest predictor of postoperative periprosthetic femoral fracture after total hip arthroplasty, regardless of the use of cement.
“In this study, we challenge the conventional cement-centric stem classification approach and call for more nuanced categorization to better predict stem performance,” Josh N. Lamb, PhD, FRCS, consultant senior lecturer at the University of Bristol and a consultant lower limb arthroplasty surgeon at Wrightington Hospital in England, and colleagues wrote.
They added, “Stem design was strongly