Georgios Konstantopoulos1*, Athanasios Serlis1, Panagiotis Poulios2 and Konstantinos Perpirakis3
1Royal London Hospital, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, UK
2Barnet Hospital, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, UK
3Metropolitan General Hospital, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Greece
*Corresponding Author: Georgios Konstantopoulos, Royal London Hospital, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, UK.
Received: December 21, 2020; Published: January 16, 2021
Distal humerus fractures remain a challenge for the orthopaedic surgeon. In most of the cases the choice of treatment is surgical,
and depending on the patient characteristics this would include ORIF, Total elbow replacement and elbow hemiarthroplasty.
Although EHA is commonly used to deal with elbow fractures, to our knowledge there is one study that elbow hemiarthroplasty was
used in young patients with post traumatic arthritis.
The aim of this article is to review the functional outcomes and the complications after elbow hemiarthroplasty for acute distal
humerus fractures and treatment of post traumatic arthritis.
Keywords: Elbow Hemiarthroplasty; Outcomes; Complications; Post Traumatic Arthritis; Distal Humerus; Fracture
Citation: Georgios Konstantopoulos., et al. “Outcomes and Complications After Elbow Hemiarthroplasty for Complex Distal Humerus Fractures and Post Traumatic Arthritis. Review of the Literature".Acta Scientific Orthopaedics 4.2 (2021): 21-26.
Copyright: © 2021 Georgios Konstantopoulos., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.