Table 4 Outline of implant removals performed, splitting regarding necessary and elective implant removal. A low obligatory following operation indication of 4.2% could be observed. Next, the rate of secondary subtalar fusions occurred with an overall incidence of 4.7%, which represents an arthrodesis rate comparable to the existing corpus of literature data
Year | Necessary implant removal | Elective implant removal | Secondary Subtalar Arthrodesis | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % per year | N | % per year | N | % per year | |
2007 | 1 | 5.3% | 12 | 63.2% | 1 | 5.3% |
2008 | 3 | 13.6% | 5 | 22.7% | 2 | 9.1% |
2009 | 1 | 3.3% | 9 | 30.0% | 1 | 3.3% |
2010 | 2 | 8.0% | 14 | 56.0% | 1 | 4.0% |
2011 | 1 | 4.0% | 9 | 36.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
2012 | 1 | 4.3% | 7 | 30.4% | 2 | 8.7% |
2013 | 0 | 0.0% | 8 | 36.4% | 0 | 0.0% |
2014 | 0 | 0.0% | 9 | 33.3% | 3 | 11.1% |
2015 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 5.3% | 0 | 0.0% |
Total | 9 | 4.2% | 74 | 34.9% | 10 | 4.7% |