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Narrowed indications improve outcomes for hip resurfacing arthroplasty.
UNLABELLED Hip resurfacing arthroplasty has had excellent clinical outcomes from multiple centers. However, controversy exists regarding the most appropriate patient selection criteria. Many proponents of hip resurfacing believe that narrowing the patient indications with strict inclusion and exclusion criteria may lead to improved outcomes and decreased complication rates. The purpose of this ...
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Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is the gold standard in the treatment of degenerative hip disease, especially in the older patient. Concerns regarding the higher levels of failure of traditional implants in younger, more active patients have led to a search for alternative arthroplasty techniques. Hip resurfacing (HR) is one of these alternatives. When compared with THA, HR has some theoretical ad...
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When Policy Topic is covered Metal-on-metal total hip resurfacing with a device system approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be considered medically necessary as an alternative to total hip replacement when the patient: Is a candidate for total hip replacement; AND Is likely to outlive a traditional prosthesis; AND Does not have a contraindication for total hip resur...
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BACKGROUND The purpose of our study was to prospectively report the clinical results of 280 consecutive hips (240 patients) who received a ReCap Hip Resurfacing System implant (Biomet Inc., Warsaw, USA) in a single district general hospital. Literature reports a large variation in clinical results between different resurfacing designs and published results using this particular design are scarc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Orthopaedics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0341-2695,1432-5195
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-010-1148-8