2008 Australian National Registry Summary is Posted

[Pat Walter]

The new 2008 Australian National Joint Registry report is now available.  I have it listed in full and also made a summary page with the main information about hip resurfacing.

http://www.surfacehippy.info/aoanationalreg08.php

http://www.surfacehippy.info/nationalregistries.php

It has a lot of very interesting information about hip resurfacing including:

The BHR remains the most used prosthesis accounting for 54.5% of all total resurfacing procedures in 2007 in the study.

Males and females with a femoral component head size greater than 50mm have a similar seven year cumulative percent revision

At seven years the cumulative percent revision is 4.6% for total resurfacing hip replacement compared to 3.4% for conventional total hip replacement

The full study is posted here  http://www.surfacehippy.info/pdf/NJRRAnnRep08.pdf

I thought everyone would be interested.

Pat