Table 5 Postoperative complications of published studies using INFIX
Variables | N | Wound issue | LFCN injury | FNI | HO | Fixation failure | Nonunion | INFIX discomfort | Other pain | TE | FU, month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vaidya2012 [28] | 91 | 3% | 30%/1% | 0 | 35% | 3% | 0 | 3% | 0 | 0 | 15 |
Vaidya2012 [22] | 22 | 0 | 9% | 0 | 0 | 5% | 0 | 5% | 0 | 0 | 19 |
Müller2013 [21] | 31 | 6% | 19%/19% | 0 | 29% | 0 | 3% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 |
Hoskins2016 [29] | 21 | 7% | 57%/57% | 0 | 43%/5% | 0 | 0 | 5% | 0 | 10% | 11 |
Shetty2017 [6] | 15 | 7% | 7% | 0 | 0 | 13% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 |
Fang2017 [30] | 29 | 3% | 48% | 3% | 0 | 7% | 0 | 3% | 10% | 0 | 7 |
Dahill2017 [31] | 47 | 2% | 55%/34% | 0 | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 |
Vaidya2017 [14] | 83 | 4% | 8% | 0 | 68%/1% | 1% | 0 | 6% | 0 | 0 | 35 |
Wu2018 [32] | 23 | 0 | 13% | 4% | 35% | 0 | 0 | 4% | 9% | 0 | 15 |
Li2019 [33] | 28 | 0 | 21% | 0 | 29% | 0 | 0 | 7% | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Hua2019 [34] | 23 | 0 | 9% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
Steer2019 [35] | 24 | 8% | 46%/25% | 0 | 21% | 4% | 0 | 17% | 0 | 17% | ≥ 12 |
Vaidya2019 [36] | 39 | 8% | 0 | 0 | 10% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8% | 0 | 22 |
Ebeed2020 [37] | 16 | 0 | 19% | 0 | 13% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6% | 15 |
Du2020 [38] | 17 | 6% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12% | 7 |
Bi2017 [4] | 21 | 0 | 14% | 5% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
Vaidya2017 [27] | 24 | 4% | 4%/4% | 0 | 46% | 8% | 0 | 4% | 0 | 0 | 40 |
Wang2017 [7] | 26 | 0 | 8% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Ma2019 [8] | 62 | 5% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ≥12 |
Yin2019 [39] | 35 | 3% | 29% | 0 | 34% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
Current study | 27 | 6% | 4% | 4% | 0 | 4% | 0 | 7% | 7% | 0 | 20 |
Case reports | 8 femoral nerve palsies in 6 patients and a full recovery in 1 patient [40], 1 bladder incarceration [41], 1 vascular occlusion [42], 3 sciatic nerve palsies [36] | ||||||||||