By Casey Tingle
LOS ANGELES — Following hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement, patients older than 45 years of age had worse outcomes compared with younger patients, according to a presenter here.
“A matched cohort of patients undergoing hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement demonstrated that patients over [the age of] 45 performed worse than younger patients, with females over 45 demonstrating the poorest outcomes,” Shane Nho, MD, said during his presentation at the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting.
Nho and colleagues divided 150 patients undergoing hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) into groups by gender and age, including women younger than 30 years, women between the ages of 30 years and 45 years, women older than 45 years, men younger than 30 years, men between the ages of 30 years and 45 years, and men older than 45 years. Patient-reported outcomes were collected preoperatively and at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years, and primary outcome measures included the Hip Outcome Score – Activities of Daily Living component (HOS-ADL) and Sport-Specific Subscales (HOS-SS), modified Harris Hip Score and the VAS. The researchers also recorded revision rate and complications.
