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Hip and Knee Arthroplasty - Surface Hippy Guide to Hip Resurfacing

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HIP REPLACEMENT<br />

GENERAL INTRODUCTION<br />

This report is based on the analysis of 191,673<br />

primary <strong>and</strong> revision hip replacements received<br />

by the Registry with a procedure date up <strong>to</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />

including 31 st December 2007. This is an<br />

additional 31,333 hip procedures compared <strong>to</strong><br />

the Annual Report released in 2007.<br />

Categories of <strong>Hip</strong> Replacement<br />

The Registry categorises hip replacements as<br />

either primary or revision procedures. Primary<br />

hip procedures are further categorised as partial<br />

or <strong>to</strong>tal hip replacements. Partial hips are further<br />

sub-categorised depending on the type of<br />

prostheses used; these are monoblock, unipolar<br />

modular <strong>and</strong> bipolar procedures. This year<br />

partial resurfacing has been included as an<br />

additional category of partial hip replacement.<br />

Partial resurfacing procedures involve the use of<br />

the Hemicap prosthesis, which has recently been<br />

introduced <strong>to</strong> the market in Australia. To the 31 st<br />

December 2007, the Registry has recorded the<br />

use of this prosthesis in eight hip replacements.<br />

Total hip replacements are categorised as either<br />

conventional <strong>to</strong>tal, <strong>to</strong>tal resurfacing or thrust<br />

plate procedures.<br />

Revision procedures are re-operations of hip<br />

arthroplasty. They may be primary partial,<br />

primary <strong>to</strong>tal or previous revisions <strong>and</strong> are<br />

categorised as major or minor. A major revision<br />

involves the removal <strong>and</strong>/or replacement of a<br />

major component, which is defined as a<br />

component that interfaces with bone i.e. either<br />

the femoral stem or acetabular cup or shell. A<br />

minor revision is a revision where a major<br />

component has not been removed or replaced.<br />

Examples of this include exchange of the femoral<br />

head <strong>and</strong>/or acetabular insert. A re-operation<br />

that does not involve removal, replacement or<br />

addition of a prosthesis or cable is not regarded<br />

as a revision procedure <strong>and</strong> therefore is not<br />

included in the analysis.<br />

A complete breakdown of age, gender, primary<br />

diagnosis <strong>and</strong> revision diagnoses for each<br />

category of hip replacement is available in a<br />

supplementary report on the Registry website<br />

www.aoa.org.au/jointregistry_pub.asp.<br />

Gender<br />

<strong>Hip</strong> replacements are performed more frequently<br />

in females (56.7%) than males. There are also<br />

variations in gender depending on the category<br />

of hip replacement. Primary partial hips (73.7%)<br />

<strong>and</strong> primary <strong>to</strong>tal hips (53.1%) are undertaken<br />

more frequently in females. Total resurfacing<br />

<strong>and</strong> thrust plate procedures are undertaken more<br />

frequently in males (72.7% <strong>and</strong> 70.9%<br />

respectively). More females have revision<br />

procedures (54.1%) (Table HG1).<br />

Since 2003 (the first year the Registry had full<br />

national coverage) there has been little change in<br />

the proportion of females having primary<br />

conventional hip replacement. There has<br />

however been a decline in females undergoing<br />

partial hip replacement (decreased from 75.4%<br />

in 2003 <strong>to</strong> 71.4% in 2007) <strong>and</strong> <strong>to</strong>tal resurfacing<br />

procedures (decreased from 28.8% in 2003 <strong>to</strong><br />

23.6% in 2007) (Figure HG1).<br />

Age<br />

The mean age for all hip replacement procedures<br />

is 69.9 years with females having a higher mean<br />

age compared <strong>to</strong> males (71.8 years <strong>and</strong> 67.4<br />

years respectively). Primary partial hips are<br />

generally used in individuals much older than<br />

those receiving primary <strong>to</strong>tal hips (mean age<br />

81.6 years for partials <strong>and</strong> 67.0 years for <strong>to</strong>tals).<br />

Females have a higher mean age for both of<br />

these procedures (82.0 years compared <strong>to</strong> 80.6<br />

years for males for partials, <strong>and</strong> 68.6 years<br />

compared <strong>to</strong> 65.2 years for males having primary<br />

<strong>to</strong>tal hips).<br />

Total resurfacing <strong>and</strong> thrust plate procedures are<br />

generally undertaken in people younger than<br />

those having primary conventional <strong>to</strong>tal hip<br />

replacement (<strong>to</strong>tal resurfacing 53.5 years, thrust<br />

plate 56.6 years <strong>and</strong> conventional 68.1 years).<br />

The mean age for revision procedures is 70.8<br />

years (females is 71.5 years <strong>and</strong> males is 70.1<br />

years).<br />

The different types of primary partial hip<br />

replacement are rarely undertaken on individuals<br />

less than 65 years of age (4.5%) with the<br />

exception of partial resurfacing where all<br />

procedures were undertaken on individuals less<br />

than 55 years of age.<br />

Most primary conventional hip replacements are<br />

undertaken on individuals 65 years or older but<br />

the proportion of younger than 65 years (34.3%)<br />

is much higher than for partial hip replacement.<br />

Most individuals having the other two types of<br />

primary <strong>to</strong>tal hip replacement are younger than<br />

65 years (90.3% for <strong>to</strong>tal resurfacing procedures<br />

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