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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 85:266-272 (2003)
© 2003 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Scientific Article

Rotational Acetabular Osteotomy in Patients Forty-six Years of Age or Older: Comparison with Younger Patients

Y. Yasunaga, MD, PhD, K. Takahashi, MD, M. Ochi, MD, PhD, Y. Ikuta, MD, PhD, T. Hisatome, MD, PhD, J. Nakashiro, MD and S. Yamamoto, MD

Investigation performed at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Y. Yasunaga, MD, PhD
K. Takahashi, MD
M. Ochi, MD, PhD
Y. Ikuta, MD, PhD
T. Hisatome, MD, PhD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan. E-mail address for Y. Yasunaga: yasuyuji{at}hiroshima-u.ac.jp

J. Nakashiro, MD
S. Yamamoto, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital, Bunkyochou 1, Matsuyama 790-8524, Japan

The authors did not receive grants or outside funding in support of their research or preparation of this manuscript. They did not receive payments or other benefits or a commitment or agreement to provide such benefits from a commercial entity. No commercial entity paid or directed, or agreed to pay or direct, any benefits to any research fund, foundation, educational institution, or other charitable or nonprofit organization with which the authors are affiliated or associated.

Background: Satisfactory intermediate and long-term results of periacetabular rotational osteotomy for early osteoarthritis secondary to dysplasia of the hip have been reported for patients in the third and fourth decades of life. The purpose of the present study was to examine the usefulness of rotational acetabular osteotomy in patients older than forty-six years of age.

Methods: A retrospective review of two groups of patients who had been treated with a rotational acetabular osteotomy was conducted. The older group consisted of twenty-four patients (twenty-six hips) with early-stage osteoarthritis who had a mean age at the time of surgery of 50.9 years (range, forty-six to fifty-eight years) and a mean duration of follow-up of 8.2 years (range, five to thirteen years), and the younger group consisted of sixty patients (sixty-three hips) who had a mean age at the time of surgery of 34.4 years (range, thirteen to forty-five years) and a mean duration of follow-up of 8.3 years (range, five to fourteen years). Clinical follow-up was based on the system of Merle d'Aubigne and Postel. The center-edge angle, acetabular roof angle, and head lateralization index were measured on radiographs made preoperatively, postoperatively, and at the time of follow-up. Preoperative and postoperative joint congruencies were classified into four grades.

Results: Preoperatively, the mean Merle d'Aubigne clinical score was 13.9 points in the older group and 14.1 points in the younger group. In both groups, this score improved significantly to a mean postoperative follow-up score of 16.6 points (p < 0.0001), with no significant difference between the two groups. The mean center-edge angle improved from 3.2° preoperatively to 34° postoperatively (p < 0.0001) in the older group and from -2.1° preoperatively to 34° postoperatively (p < 0.0001) in the younger group. The mean acetabular roof angle improved from 29° to 5.9° (p < 0.0001) in the older group and from 31° to 2.9° (p < 0.0001) in the younger group. The mean head lateralization index improved from 0.67 to 0.64 (p < 0.01) in the older group and from 0.66 to 0.61 (p < 0.0001) in the younger group.

Progression of osteoarthritis was observed radiographically at the time of follow-up in five hips in the older group and in four hips in the younger group. Kaplan-Meier survivorship analysis, with radiographic progression of osteoarthritis as the end point, predicted a ten-year survival rate of 70.0% in the older group and 93.7% in the younger group; this difference was not significant, with the numbers available (p = 0.062, log-rank test).

Conclusions: Our results indicate that rotational acetabular osteotomy for elderly patients can prevent progression of osteoarthritis (as indicated by a survival rate of 70% at ten years) and that in selected cases it is worthwhile at least as a temporizing operation.

Level of Evidence: Therapeutic study, Level IV (case series [no, or historical, control group]). See Instructions to Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.


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