Does surgical body position influence the risk for neurovascular injury in total hip arthroplasty? A magnetic resonance imaging study.
Femoral neurovascular injury
Lateral position
Magnetic resonance imaging
Supine position
Total hip arthroplasty
Journal
Orthopaedics & traumatology, surgery & research : OTSR
ISSN: 1877-0568
Titre abrégé: Orthop Traumatol Surg Res
Pays: France
ID NLM: 101494830
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2021
12 2021
Historique:
received:
20
09
2020
revised:
26
10
2020
accepted:
29
10
2020
pubmed:
24
1
2021
medline:
11
3
2022
entrez:
23
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Neurovascular injury is a critical complication in total hip arthroplasty (THA). However, neurovascular geographic variations around the hip joint in different body positions have not been examined. This study investigated the differences in hip neurovascular geography in the supine and lateral positions using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The neurovascular geography of the hip is influenced by differences in surgical body position. This was a single-center prospective study of 15 healthy volunteers enrolled between January 2018 and March 2019. Each subject's bilateral hips were scanned with a 3-T MRI scanner in both the supine and lateral positions. In T1-weighted axial images at the level of the hip center, the anterior and posterior acetabular edges were defined as reference points at which retractors are commonly placed during surgery. We measured the distance between the anterior acetabular edge and the femoral nerve (dFN), femoral artery (dFA), and femoral vein (dFV), as well as that between the posterior acetabular edge and the sciatic nerve (dSN). The primary outcome measures were the distances in both the supine and lateral positions. dFN, dFA, and dFV in the supine and lateral positions (mm, mean±standard deviation) were 25.8±5.6 and 32.4±6.4 (p<0.0001), 25.7±4.5 and 32.2±5.0 (p<0.0001), and 26.5±4.8 and 32.3±5.1 (p<0.0001), respectively. Most of these elements moved anteromedially in the lateral position compared to the supine position. There was no significant difference in dSN between the supine and lateral positions (23.7±4.9 and 24.5±6.5 (p=0.46). THA in the supine position may be accompanied by a higher risk of femoral neurovascular injury than that in the lateral position. The application of our findings could reduce the risk of femoral neurovascular injury during THA. III; prospective diagnostic case control study.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Neurovascular injury is a critical complication in total hip arthroplasty (THA). However, neurovascular geographic variations around the hip joint in different body positions have not been examined. This study investigated the differences in hip neurovascular geography in the supine and lateral positions using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
HYPOTHESIS
The neurovascular geography of the hip is influenced by differences in surgical body position.
PATIENTS AND METHODS
This was a single-center prospective study of 15 healthy volunteers enrolled between January 2018 and March 2019. Each subject's bilateral hips were scanned with a 3-T MRI scanner in both the supine and lateral positions. In T1-weighted axial images at the level of the hip center, the anterior and posterior acetabular edges were defined as reference points at which retractors are commonly placed during surgery. We measured the distance between the anterior acetabular edge and the femoral nerve (dFN), femoral artery (dFA), and femoral vein (dFV), as well as that between the posterior acetabular edge and the sciatic nerve (dSN). The primary outcome measures were the distances in both the supine and lateral positions.
RESULTS
dFN, dFA, and dFV in the supine and lateral positions (mm, mean±standard deviation) were 25.8±5.6 and 32.4±6.4 (p<0.0001), 25.7±4.5 and 32.2±5.0 (p<0.0001), and 26.5±4.8 and 32.3±5.1 (p<0.0001), respectively. Most of these elements moved anteromedially in the lateral position compared to the supine position. There was no significant difference in dSN between the supine and lateral positions (23.7±4.9 and 24.5±6.5 (p=0.46).
DISCUSSION
THA in the supine position may be accompanied by a higher risk of femoral neurovascular injury than that in the lateral position. The application of our findings could reduce the risk of femoral neurovascular injury during THA.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
III; prospective diagnostic case control study.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33484902
pii: S1877-0568(21)00023-2
doi: 10.1016/j.otsr.2021.102817
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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Pagination
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