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October 2018  –  Metal on metal hip resurfacing (MoM-HR) is an alternative to total hip arthroplasty in young and active patients. The purpose was to determine the survivorship of MoM-HR procedures performed in patients aged 45 years and younger assessing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) at minimum 5-year follow-up…

…All 217 patients equal to or younger than 45 years of age at the time of surgical intervention presenting to our center with MoM-HR between May 2002 and May 2011 were prospectively followed…

…he overall survivorship excluding septic failures was 94.6% and 93.8% at 5 and 10 years, respectively…

… The survivorship of HR in the younger than 45 age-group was similar to that of total hip arthroplasty, as well as HR in older patients.

Christopher Dowding, MD, FRCSC, Johanna S. Dobransky, MHK, Paul R. Kim, MD, FRCSC, Paul E. Beaulé, MD, FRCSC’Correspondence information about the author MD, FRCSC Paul E. Beaulé
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, General Campus, Ottawa, ON, Canada