Association between trochanteric bursitis, osteoarthrosis and total hip arthroplasty,

• Published in: Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia
• Main Authors: Carlos Roberto Schwartsmann, Felipe Loss, Leandro de Freitas Spinelli, Roque Furian, Marcelo Faria Silva, Júlia Mazzuchello Zanatta, Leonardo Carbonera Boschin, Ramiro Zilles Gonçalves, Anthony Kerbes Yépez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda. 2014-06-01
• Subjects: Artroplastia de quadril; Osteoartrite; Bursite; Epidemiolgia
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-36162014000300267&lng=en&tlng=en
• ISSN: 1982-4378

OBJECTIVE: this was an epidemiological study on trochanteric bursitis at the time of performing total hip arthroplasty.METHODS: sixty-two sequential patients who underwent total hip arthroplasty due to osteoarthrosis, without any previous history of trochanteric bursitis, were evaluated. The bursas were collected and evaluated histologically.RESULTS: there were 35 female patients (56.5%) and 27 male patients (43.5%), with a mean age of 65 years (±11). Trochanteric bursitis was conformed histologically in nine patients (14.5%), of whom six were female (66.7%) and three were male (33.3%).CONCLUSIONS: 14.5% of the bursas analyzed presented inflammation at the time that the primary total hip arthroplasty due to osteoarthrosis was performed, and the majority of the cases of bursitis were detected in female patients.