Table 4. Postoperative Complications.
Patient | Complications That Required Implant Revision | Treatment |
---|---|---|
4 | Aseptic loosening secondary to “poly disease” | Revision distal radius hemiarthroplasty |
7 | Aseptic loosening secondary to “poly disease” | Revision distal radius hemiarthroplasty |
Patient | Other Complications | Treatment |
2 | Left wrist contracture, bone spur development, and extensor tendon adhesion | Capsulectomy, bone spur removal and tenolysis respectively |
3 | Clicking during full flexion, pain accompanied by subchondral cysts, and degenerative changes in the capitate and hamate | Currently under observation |
5 | Ulnar tunnel syndrome | Ulnar nerve neurolysis and ulnar tunnel decompression |
6 | Right wrist contracture and extensor tendon adhesions | Capsulotomy and ECRL ECRB tenolysis |
8 | Wrist stiffness, pisotriquetral arthritis, ulnar tunnel syndrome, and extensor tenosynovitis of small finger | Capsulectomy, pisiformectomy, ulnar tunnel release, and steroid injection respectively |
9 | Flexor tenosynovitis | Flexor tenosynovectomy |
10 | Asymptomatic osteolysis | Nonea |
ECRB, extensor carpi radialis brevis; ECRL, extensor carpi radialis longus; EDC, extensor digitorum communis.
Patient deceased shortly thereafter.