Sahemey R, Moores TS, Meacher H, Youssef B, Khan S, Evans CR. Anthropometric method for estimating component sizes in total hip arthroplasty. World J Orthop 2021; 12(11): 859-866 [PMID: 34888146 DOI: 10.5312/wjo.v12.i11.859]
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Rajpreet Sahemey, BSc, MBBS, Surgeon, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, UHCW, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry CV2 2DX, United Kingdom. rajpreet.s@gmail.com
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Orthopedics
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Retrospective Study
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World J Orthop. Nov 18, 2021; 12(11): 859-866 Published online Nov 18, 2021. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v12.i11.859
Anthropometric method for estimating component sizes in total hip arthroplasty
Rajpreet Sahemey, Thomas S Moores, Hannah Meacher, Bishoy Youssef, Shehzaad Khan, Christopher R Evans
Rajpreet Sahemey, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry CV2 2DX, United Kingdom
Thomas S Moores, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Walsall Manor Hospital, Walsall WS2 9PS, United Kingdom
Hannah Meacher, Bishoy Youssef, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 6QG, United Kingdom
Shehzaad Khan, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore HA7 4LP, United Kingdom
Christopher R Evans, Department of Orthopaedics, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry SY10 7AG, United Kingdom
Author contributions: Sahemey R, Moores TS, Youssef B, Khan S and Evans CR designed and coordinated the study; Sahemey R, Moores TS, Meacher H and Khan S performed the experiments, acquired and analysed the data; Sahemey R and Moores TS wrote the manuscript; all authors approved the final version of this article.
Institutional review board statement: Institutional Review Board approval was not required in accordance with National Research Ethics Service (United Kingdom) guidance on the use of anonymised data collected retrospectively as part of routine clinical care.
Informed consent statement: Informed consent was waived. This retrospective study involves no more than minimal risk to the participants.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Rajpreet Sahemey, BSc, MBBS, Surgeon, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, UHCW, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry CV2 2DX, United Kingdom. rajpreet.s@gmail.com
Received: May 26, 2021 Peer-review started: May 26, 2021 First decision: July 27, 2021 Revised: August 14, 2021 Accepted: September 15, 2021 Article in press: September 15, 2021 Published online: November 18, 2021
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background
Preoperative templating is an essential in total hip arthroplasty (THA) as the correct size and orientation of components play a key role in the success of the prosthesis. Templating is becoming digitised yet many orthopaedic departments lack access to software due to cost and resources.
Research motivation
Available evidence surrounding the correlation between a patient’s shoe size and knee arthroplasty component sizes suggests reliable positive correlations. Our motivation for this study was to assess if there was a reliable anthropometric method to predict THA component sizes from shoe size in the absence of digital methods.
Research objectives
We aim to determine the accuracy of using an easily obtainable measurement (shoe size) to predict component sizes in THA when compared with the digitally templated sizes of the same hip.
Research methods
We performed a retrospective review of 102 patients (40 male, 62 female) who had undergone elective uncemented or hybrid THA at our single centre. Standardised digital pelvic radiographs were retrospectively templated to desired cup and stem sizes using TraumaCad®. We then compared the templated size to the actual size of the implant that the patient received and assessed if there was any correlation with the patient’s shoe size.
Research results
Statistically significant positive correlations were observed between patient shoe size: templated cup and implanted cup size; templated stem and implanted stem size. Positive correlations were also demonstrated between templated and implanted acetabular cup sizes, and templated and implanted stem sizes.
Research conclusions
Our study has shown there to be strong positive correlations between shoe size and templated component sizes in primary uncemented THA. Shoe size is an easily obtainable measurement and can allow surgeons to confidently predict component sizes in the absence of digital templating.
Research perspectives
Future research should evaluate the clinical significance of these findings with cemented hip systems.
