Outcome of single-stage total hip arthroplasty in advanced active tubercular arthritis of the hip in Indian patients

Table 6 Incidence of disease reactivation compared with other similar studies

Ref.	Follow-up	Disease reactivation	Study limitation	Direction for future research
Our study	18 months	1	Advance work-up to rule out pulmonary tuberculosis was not done	Co-existing pulmonary TB should be effectively ruled out
Neogi et al[34], 2010	41 months	1	Retrospective case series. Cause of reactivation not mentioned	A prospective study with detailed work-up of the cause of disease reactivation is needed
Wang et al[35], 2010	49 months	0	Retrospective study with small sample size	Prospective study with larger sample size would be more helpful to generalize the study outcome
Bhosale et al[33], 2020	10.5 years	0	Retrospective case series, includes only patient without an active sinus. Exact duration of disease not mentioned	Prospective study including patients with active sinus would better help to assess the impact of sinus on disease recurrence
Chen et al[43], 2021	32.1 months	Aseptic loosening = 0; dislocation = 0; recurrence = 0	Retrospective study, duration of disease highly variable (9 months to 12 years)	Prospective study with lesser variation in duration of disease will be more useful
Kushwaha et al[31], 2024	14 months	0	Short follow-up period	A longer follow-up period will be more helpful in assessing implant longevity

TB: Tuberculosis.