Radial Head Arthroplasty A Clinical and Radiological Comparison of Monopolar and Bipolar Radial Head Arthroplasty (RHA)

Sundsvall Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Radial Head Fracture; Elbow Fracture; Arthroplasty Complications

Treatments: Procedure: Type of radial head arthroplasty

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03379935

Radial head arthrplasty

Details and patient eligibility

About

Fractures of the radial head are among the most common fractures in the elbow and represent one-third of all elbow fractures.This retrospective cohort study was performed between 2004 and 2014 at Sundsvall and Umeå University hospital, Sweden. All patients who were operated on between 2004 and 2014 with a radial head arthroplasty for an acute or sequelae due to a caput radii fracture.The aim of this study is to evaluate clinical or radiological differences between patients treated with a unipolar or bipolar radial head arthroplasty.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients treated with a radial head arthroplasty during the study period.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

27 participants in 2 patient groups

Bipolar radial head arthroplasty

Description:

Patients treated with bipolar head arthroplasty due to radial head fracture

Treatment:

Procedure: Type of radial head arthroplasty

Unipolar radial head arthroplasty

Description:

Patients treated with unipolar head arthroplasty due to radial head fracture

Treatment:

Procedure: Type of radial head arthroplasty