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Elektra (SBI / Small Bone Innovations)

Ball-and-socket

What it is made of

Design type
Ball-and-socket

How well it holds up (published data)

WhatResultFollow-upPatientsSource
Implant survival68.6% cumulative survival (80% at 48 months)mean 7.9 yearsn = 10Frey et al., BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2024
Revision / removal19.9% failure rate (pooled); highest of the pooled implantsmean 48 monthsn = 281 (pooled)Holme et al., systematic review, EFORT Open Rev 2021

Each number links to the study it comes from. "not reported in our evidence base" means we checked our sources and none gives that figure. We never fill a gap with a guess.

The studies behind this implant (2)

  1. [Translated article] Experience in major complications with total trapezometacarpal prostheses (2024) · doi
  2. Experience in major complications with total trapezometacarpal prostheses (2024) · doi
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