Kim, Young‐Jo

Background: Long-term outcomes of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) surgery, particularly survivorship, are critical to guide treatment decision-making and patient counseling, yet only a limited number of studies have reported mid- to long-term survivorship. The purpose of this study was to report survivorship rates at a mean 10-year follow-up in a large, multicenter FAI surgery cohort and to identify clinical predictors of survivorship. Methods: A prospective, multicenter cohort study assessed patients treated for FAI with hip arthroscopy or surgical dislocation from 2008 to 2012. At a minimum of 8 years, 362 hips (80.1%) had follow-up that permitted assessment of total hip arthroplasty (THA)-free survivorship. A Cox proportional-hazards model was developed to identify risk factors for THA. Results: tThe cohort included 362 hips with a mean patient age of 32.1 years; 53% were in females, and 95.6% were in Caucasian patients. The THA-free survivorship of the cohort was 90.6% at a mean of 10.4 ± 1.6 years postoperatively. Risk factors for THA were older age at surgery (p = 0.01), male sex (p = 0.02), body mass index of ≥30 kg/m 2 (p = 0.009), and femoral head chondromalacia (p < 0.001). Conclusions: This study demonstrates that FAI surgery yielded durable 10-year THA-free survivorship of 90.6%. Older age at surgery, obesity, male sex, and femoral head chondromalacia were key predictors of conversion to THA. Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level II . See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.

Abstract Introduction: Labral injury at the time of open and arthroscopic hip preservation surgery for symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is managed with debridement versus refixation by the treating surgeon based on tear pattern, tissue quality, and hip morphology. While refixation has been favored based on mid-term outcomes in some series, differences in the long-term patient reported outcomes (PROMS) have not been defined in well-designed and matched prospective series. Methods: This study consisted of a prospective, multi-center cohort that underwent primary surgical treatment for symptomatic FAI. Patients were included if they underwent corrective osteoplasty and a labral refixation or a labral debridement procedure. Using a ratio of 1:1, hips with labral refixation and labral debridement were matched by age, sex, and surgical approach. Postoperative assessments were conducted at a minimum 8 years after surgery using PROMS and assessment of reoperations. Results: A total of 237 hips (n=188 labral refixation, n=49 labral debridement) met the inclusion criteria for the current study. 48 hips from the labral refixation and 48 hips from debridement groups with mean follow-up of 10.3±1.7 years and 10.6±2.1 years respectively were included. No significant differences were observed in the femoral head, acetabular cartilage grade, or labral grade between the groups. The mHHS improved 19.8±19.6 and 23.4±16.8 from baseline to the final follow-up in the labral refixation and debridement groups, respectively (p=0.43). There were no significant differences in PROMS between the labral refixation and debridement groups. Overall, 66% and 76% of the labral refixation and debridement groups achieved the MCID for the mHHS respectively (p=0.30). There were more revision surgeries with labral refixation than with debridement (10.4% vs. 2.1%, p=0.09), but more conversions to total hip replacement in the labral debridement group (8.3% vs. 4.2%, p=0.38), but neither of these differences were statistically significant. Discussion: Both labral refixation and debridement are effective with durable improvement in PROMS at a mean of 10 years in a prospective cohort of patients treated surgically for symptomatic FAI. No significant differences in baseline or final PROMS were observed, and similar rates of revision and conversion to hip replacement were observed in the debridement and refixation groups.

Background: Full-thickness acetabular cartilage lesions are common findings during primary surgical treatment of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). Purpose: To evaluate clinical outcomes after acetabular microfracture performed during FAI surgery in a prospective, multicenter cohort. Study Design: Cohort Study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: Patients with FAI who had failed nonoperative management were prospectively enrolled in a multicenter cohort. Preoperative and postoperative (mean follow-up, 4.3 years) patient-reported outcome measures were obtained with a follow-up rate of 81.6% (621/761 hips), including 54 patients who underwent acetabular microfracture. Patient characteristics, radiographic parameters, intraoperative disease severity, and operative procedures were analyzed. Propensity matching using linear regression was used to match 54 hips with microfracture to 162 control hips (1:3) to control for confounding variables. Subanalyses of hips ≤35 and >35 years of age with propensity matching were also performed. Results: Patients who underwent acetabular microfracture were more likely to be male (81.8% vs 40.9%; P < .001), be older in age (35.0 vs 29.9 years; P = .001), have a higher body mass index (27.2 vs 25.0; P = .001), and have a greater alpha angle (69.6° vs 62.3°; P < .001) compared with the nonmicrofracture cohort (n = 533). After propensity matching to control for covariates, patients treated with microfracture displayed no differences in the modified Harris Hip Score or Hip Disability and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score ( P = .22-.95) but were more likely to undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA) (13% [7/54] compared with 4% [6/162] in the control group; P = .002), and age >35 years was associated with conversion to THA after microfracture. Microfracture performed at or before 35 years of age portended good outcomes with no significant risk of conversion to THA at the most recent follow-up. Conclusion: Microfracture of acetabular cartilage defects appears to be safe and associated with reliably improved short- to mid-term results in younger patients; modified expectations should be realized when full-thickness chondral lesions are identified in patients >35 years of age.

ABSTRACTFemoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is a common femoral and/or acetabular abnormality that can cause progressive damage to the hip and osteoarthritis. FAI can be the result of femoral head/neck overgrowth, acetabular overgrowth or both femoral and acetabular abnormalities, resulting in a loss of native hip biomechanics and pain upon hip flexion and rotation. Radiographic evidence can include loss of sphericity of the femoral neck (cam impingement) and/or acetabular retroversion with focal or global overcoverage (pincer impingement). Operative intervention is indicated in symptomatic patients after failed conservative management with radiographic evidence of impingement and minimal arthritic changes of the hip, with the goal of restoring normal hip biomechanics and reducing pain. This is done by correcting the femoral head–neck relationship to the acetabulum through femoral and/or acetabular osteoplasty and treatment of concomitant hip pathology. In pincer impingement cases with small lunate surfaces, reverse periacetabular osteotomy is indicated as acetabular osteoplasty can decrease an already small articular surface. While surgical dislocation is regarded as the traditional gold standard, hip arthroscopy has become widely utilized in recent years. Studies comparing both open surgery and arthroscopy have shown comparable long-term pain reduction and improvements in clinical measures of hip function, as well as similar conversion rates to total hip arthroplasty. However, arthroscopy has trended toward earlier improvement, quicker recovery and faster return to sports. The purpose of this study was to review the recent literature on open and arthroscopic management of FAI.

Background: Surgical treatment of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) continues to evolve and is most commonly approached with either hip arthroscopy (HA) or surgical dislocation (SD) of the hip. The purpose of this study was to compare the outcomes of similar patients undergoing surgical treatment of FAI with either HA or SD. Methods: A prospective multicenter cohort study of patients undergoing primary surgical treatment of FAI was performed. Follow-up at a minimum of 1 year (mean, 4.3 years) was available for 621 hips (81.7%), including 399 procedures with HA and 222 procedures with SD. Propensity scores were calculated and reflect the likelihood of surgical treatment with HA versus SD for a given set of covariates. Propensity scores allowed 1:1 matching to identify similar patients at baseline. After propensity matching, 128 matched pairs of patients who underwent HA and 128 matched pairs of those who underwent SD were included in the study. The primary outcome was the postoperative modified Harris hip score (mHHS); secondary outcomes included the Hip disability and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (HOOS), the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) activity score, and the Short Form-12 (SF-12) physical and mental subscores, as well as the rate of persistent symptoms, revision surgery, and total hip arthroplasty (THA). Results: After propensity matching, the 2 groups exhibited similar distributions of all of the covariates that were included in the model. Both groups demonstrated significant improvements in all patient-reported outcomes (PROs). The final mHHS was not significantly different between the 2 matched groups (81.3 for the HA group versus 80.2 for the SD group, p = 0.67). Likewise, the HOOS pain subscale was similar at the time of final follow-up (77.6 versus 80.5, respectively, p = 0.32). No difference between the HA group and the SD group was identified in the rate of THA (0% and 3.1%, respectively, p = 0.41) and revision surgery (7.8% and 10.9%, respectively, p = 0.35); overall rates of persistent symptoms were 21.9% for the HA group and 24.4% for the SD group (p = 0.55). Conclusions: In a propensity-matched analysis of patients who were treated with either approach, patients undergoing HA or SD demonstrated similar outcomes at a mean of 4 years postoperatively. Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level II . See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.

Objectives: The Bernese periacetabular osteotomy (PAO) is becoming a widely utilized procedure. Patients are younger, highly active, and may desire to return to sport activity. Counseling and managing expectations in these patients is challenging as there is limited information regarding activity level after PAO. The purpose of this study was to analyze physical activity levels after PAO in a large, prospective multicenter cohort. Methods: Assessment of prospectively collected data from a multicenter group included 456 hips treated by PAO for hip dysplasia. After exclusions, 359 hips (80 male, 279 female) remained with a mean age of 25.9 years and mean BMI of 25. Demographics, radiographic measures, and clinical outcomes were evaluated preoperatively, at 1 year follow-up, and at minimum 2 years postoperatively (mean 44.9 months). Activity level was assessed with the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) activity score, patients were stratified into low, moderate, and high activity groups based on preoperative function. Descriptive statistics and linear regressions were performed for the primary outcome of change in UCLA. Results: UCLA scores were improved on average 0.6 points at final follow up (p = 0.001). When stratified, the low activity and moderate activity groups had significant improvement in UCLA scores (p<.0001 and p=0007) while the high activity group saw a decrease in UCLA scores (p<.0001). mHHS, HOOS Pain, and HOOS Sports and Recreation scores were significantly improved across all activity levels. Univariable linear regression analysis identified prior ipsilateral surgery, arthroscopy at time of PAO, and preoperative ACEA to be predictors of the change in UCLA score (p<0.05). With the multivariable model, the effect of prior ispilateral surgery was maintained (p = 0.002). Conclusion: The data suggests that improvements in activity level and function can be expected following PAO surgery, with greater gains experienced by patients with lower preoperative level of activity. [Figure: see text][Figure: see text]

Obesity is a risk factor for complications following many orthopaedic procedures. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether obesity was an independent risk factor increasing the rate of complications following periacetabular osteotomy (PAO) and to determine whether radiographic correction after PAO was affected by obesity.We retrospectively collected demographic, clinical and radiographic data on 280 patients (231 women; 82.5% and 49 men; 17.5%) who were followed for a mean of 48 months (12 to 60) after PAO. A total of 65 patients (23.2%) were obese (body mass index (BMI) > 30 kg/m2). Univariate and multivariate analysis demonstrated that BMI was an independent risk factor associated with the severity of the complications. The average probability of a patient developing a major complication was 22% (95% confidence interval (CI) 11.78 to 38.21) for an obese patient compared with 3% (95% CI 1.39 to 6.58) for a non-obese patient The odds of a patient developing a major complication were 11 times higher (95% CI 4.71 to 17.60, p < 0.0001) for an obese compared with a non-obese patient.Following PAO surgery, there was no difference in radiographic correction between obese and non-obese patients. PAO procedures in obese patients correct the deformity effectively but are associated with an increased rate of complications.Cite this article: Bone Joint J 2015;97-B:29–34.