@article{ref1,
title="Causes of death after hip arthroplasty in primary arthrosis",
journal="Journal of arthroplasty",
year="1997",
author="Visuri, T. and Pulkkinen, P. and Paavolainen, P. and Koskenvuo, Karoliina and Turula, K. B.",
volume="12",
number="4",
pages="397-402",
abstract="The causes of death in 1,018 patients operated on for primary osteoarthrosis with cemented total hip arthroplasty (THA) were compared with those of age- and sex-matched orthopaedic control patients and those of the general population in Finland. The mean follow-up period was 12 years for the THA patients and 11 years for the control patients. During the first 4 years after surgery, the mortality of the THA patients from circulatory diseases was significantly increased compared with that of the orthopaedic control patients; the number of deaths in patients with THA was 34 compared with 17 for orthopaedic control patients, the relative risk being 2.00 (95% confidence interval, 1.13-3.54). During the 10-year period after the surgery, the relative risk of death of the THA patients compared with the orthopaedic control patients was 1.50 for death from circulatory diseases (95% confidence intervals, 1.11-2.00), 0.42 for accidental death (95% confidence interval, 0.55-1.08), 0.74 for death from cancer, and 0.77 for death from other causes. The observed numbers of deaths from circulatory diseases or by accidents for patients with THA during a postoperative time frame of 5 to 23 years did not differ from the numbers expected for an age- and sex-matched subgroup of the Finnish population. The number of deaths from cancer was less than expected (P = .046).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0883-5403",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}