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Bone & Joint Research
Vol. 12, Issue 5 | Pages 331 - 338
16 May 2023
Infection after intracapsular femoral neck fracture – does antibiotic-loaded bone cement reduce infection risk after hemiarthroplasty and total hip arthroplasty?
Szymski D Walter N Krull P Melsheimer O Grimberg A Alt V Steinbrueck A Rupp M
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Aims

The aim of this investigation was to compare risk of infection in both cemented and uncemented hemiarthroplasty (HA) as well as in total hip arthroplasty (THA) following femoral neck fracture.

Methods

Data collection was performed using the German Arthroplasty Registry (EPRD). In HA and THA following femoral neck fracture, fixation method was divided into cemented and uncemented prostheses and paired according to age, sex, BMI, and the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index using Mahalanobis distance matching.