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Press Release December 2019

Very good EPRD results for restorations with the A2® Short Stem

• The Annual Report 2019 of the Endoprostheses Register Germany (EPRD) has been published
• Lowest failure rate in the first two years with cementless restoration with the A2® Short Stem from ARTIQO

The cementless fitting with the A2® short stem from ARTIQO occupies a leading position among cementless hip stem implants in the annual report 2019 of the Endoprostheses Register Germany (EPRD): Overall, the short-term results of the short sockets are superior to standard sockets.   “The excellent performance of the A2® short socket in the EPRD Annual Report 2019 proves once again how important a transparent and good communication between developers, users and the manufacturer is”, says Mario Frank, Head of the Development Department & Regulatory of ARTIQO. “Training, dissemination of application-related information, highly specialised preparations and courses under expert guidance are the key to success”. Facts and figures: ARTIQO’s A2® Short Stem has a failure probability of 1.1 after one year and 1.5 after two years, making the A2 Short Stem one of the leading positions among a total of 48 cementless hip stems. There are no data available for the A2® short socket for a longer period of time. The average failure probability of cementless sockets is 2.8 after one year and 3.2 after two years with a range of 1.1 – 5.0 after one year and 1.5 – 5.8 after two years. In principle, the EPRD annual report shows that the probability of failure for total hip endoprostheses with cementless short stems is lower in the first years than for cementless standard stems. Supported by these good results, the use of short sockets (in patients under 70 years of age – the main clientele for short sockets) has increased significantly: The number of patients with short stem implantation covered by the EPRD last year is almost five times higher than three years ago.   A total of 150,284 initial implantations of total hip endoprostheses in 2018 were reported to the EPRD. The proportion of completely cementless anchorages has again increased to 78.6% (compared to 74.8% in 2014). The number of short stems has further increased to currently 9.7% (6.6% in 2015), i.e. more than 20,000 short stems are implanted in Germany, and the trend is rising: Although the overall share is still small, there are clinics in which short sockets are already used more frequently than standard sockets.   Conclusion: Cementless short stems are an excellent option for the implantation of total hip endoprostheses. This is shown by the current data of the EPRD Annual Report 2019. In the top group of all cementless fittings with a very low probability of failure after one or two years is the fitting with the A2® Short Stem from ARTIQO. No data are available for a longer period of time, but there is no evidence of a declining performance.

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