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Table 4 Reason for revision total hip arthroplasty

From: Epidemiology of total hip arthroplasty: demographics, comorbidities and outcomes

 

Discharges (n = 400,974)

Dislocation/Instability

87,605 (21.85%)

Mechanical Loosening

79,156 (19.74%)

Other Mechanical Complications

69,684 (17.38%)

Infection

60,562 (15.10%)

Periprosthetic Osteolysis

27,668 (6.90%)

Periprosthetic Fracture

26,332 (6.57%)

Implant Failure

23,103 (5.76%)

Bearing Surface Wear

22,306 (5.56%)

  1. Listed reason for patients undergoing rTHA collected from the NIS database of patients undergoing THA and rTHA from 2006 to the third quarter of 2015