Demographics and risk for containment surgery in patients with unilateral Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease: a national population-based cohort study of 309 patients from the Swedish Pediatric Orthopedic Quality Register
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https://doi.org/10.2340/17453674.2024.40907Keywords:
Demographics, Hip, Incidence, LCPD, Paediatric orthopaedics, Pelvis and acetabulum, SPOQAbstract
Background and purpose: It is controversial as to which patients affected by Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease (LCPD) benefit from containment surgery. This population-based study based on data from a national quality registry aims to assess the incidence of LCPD and to explore which factors affect the decision for surgical intervention.
Methods: This observational study involved 309 patients with unilateral LCPD reported between 2015 and 2023 to the Swedish Pediatric Orthopedic Quality Register (SPOQ). Descriptive statistics and logistic regression models were used for analysis.
Results: In 2019, the assessed incidence of LCPD in the Swedish population of 2–12-year-olds was 4.2 per 105. 238 (77%) were boys with a mean age of 6 years. At diagnosis, 55 (30%) were overweight or obese, rising to 17 patients (39%) and 16 patients (40%) at 2-year follow-up for surgically and non-surgically treated groups, respectively. At diagnosis, affected hips had reduced abduction compared with healthy hips, and their abduction remained restricted at the 2-year follow-up. Surgically treated patients had inferior abduction compared with non-surgically treated ones at diagnosis. The adjusted risk for containment surgery increased with age and in the presence of a positive Trendelenburg sign but decreased with greater hip abduction.
Conclusion: We found a lower national yearly incidence (4.2 per 105) than previously reported in Swedish studies. A higher proportion of overweight or obese patients compared with the general Swedish population of 4–9-year-olds was identified. Increasing age, positive Trendelenburg sign, and limited hip abduction at diagnosis correlated with increased surgical intervention likelihood.
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