Avenir Müller Hip Stem Post Market Surveillance Study

The Harris Hip Score is a questionnaire filled by the surgeon with the patient who received a hip implant. The domains covered are pain, function, absence of deformity, and range of motion. The pain domain measures pain severity and its effect on activities and need for pain medication.

The function domain consists of daily activities (stair use, using public transportation, sitting, and managing shoes and socks) and gait (limp, support needed, and walking distance). Deformity takes into account hip flexion, adduction, internal rotation, and extremity length discrepancy. Range of motion measures hip flexion, abduction, external and internal rotation, and adduction.

There are 10 items. The score has a maximum of 100 points (best possible outcome) covering pain (1 item, 0-44 points), function (7 items, 0-47 points), absence of deformity (1 item, 4 points), and range of motion (2 items, 5 points).

Number of patients with adverse events related to the implant will be reported. Adverse events include: dislocations of the hip, revisions and removals of the implant components.

Here, the entire cohort of patients (and hips) enrolled in the study were considered and are reported as the complications occured from the early stages of the study, and up to 10 year post surgery, and could occur to any patients.

Implant survival based on removal or intended removal of the device and determined using the Kaplan-Meier method.

Here, the entire cohort of patients (and hips) enrolled in the study were considered and are reported as the revisions could happen from the early stages of the study, and up to 10 year post surgery, and could occur to any patients. Even if a patient did not come back for a visit, the information if the implant was still in place was provided and taken into account for the survival analysis (gives higher numbers than for the clinical evaluation).