Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2020, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (3): 428-437.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2417

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Outcomes and metal ion levels of Birmingham hip resurfacing versus total hip arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Fan Zhirong1, Huang Yongquan2, Peng Jiajie1, Hong Weiwu1, Zhong Degui1, Su Haitao2, Liu Zitao2, Jiang Tao2   

  1. 1Second Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510405, Guangdong Province, China; 2Department of Orthopedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510006, Guangdong Province, China
  • Received:2019-03-21 Revised:2019-04-09 Accepted:2019-04-23 Online:2020-01-28 Published:2019-12-26
  • Contact: Jiang Tao, Master, Associate chief physician, Department of Orthopedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510006, Guangdong Province, China
  • About author:Fan Zhirong, Master candidate, Second Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510405, Guangdong Province, China
  • Supported by:
    the Scientific Research Project of Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine Bureau in 2018, No. 20182043; the Basic and Applied Research in Guangdong Province (Provincial Natural Science Foundation), No. 2018A030313694

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Total hip arthroplasty is the gold standard for the end stage of elderly hip disease, but Birmingham hip resurfacing has become an effective alternative to total hip arthroplasty for young people with high levels of exercise. Whether Birmingham hip resurfacing has an advantage over total hip arthroplasty is still inconclusive.

OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the efficacy and metal ion level of Birmingham hip resurfacing and total hip arthroplasty.

METHODS: The electronic databases of PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane library, and Web of Science, which last updated on November 30, 2018, were searched for clinical control study of Birmingham hip resurfacing and total hip arthroplasty. Literature data were extracted and literature quality was evaluated. Meta-analyses were performed with RevMan 5.3 software.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: (1) Twelve studies were identified with a total of 2 317 patients (n=1 279 in Birmingham hip resurfacing group and n=1 038 in total hip arthroplasty group). (2) Meta-analysis results demonstrated that in the primary outcome measures, the Birmingham hip resurfacing group did not differ from the total hip arthroplasty group during short-term follow-up (RR=0.13, 95% CI [0.02, 1.01], P=0.05), but Birmingham hip resurfacing had a lower revision rate during long-term follow-up (RR=0.27, 95% CI [0.15, 0.50], < 0.000 1). (3) In the functional scores of secondary outcome measures, the Birmingham hip resurfacing group was superior to total hip arthroplasty in short-term follow-up Harris hip scores and modified Harris hip scores (< 0.05). However, there was no significant difference between the two groups in the long-term follow-up Harris hip score and University of California, Los Angeles score and the Western Ontario and McMaster University score at any time (P > 0.05). (4) Finally, in the metal ion level, whether it was short-term follow-up or long-term follow-up, there was no significant difference between Birmingham hip resurfacing and total hip arthroplasty (P < 0.05). While at the Cr ion level, there was no significant difference between Birmingham hip resurfacing and total hip arthroplasty in short-term follow-up (P=0.55), but long-term follow-up showed that Birmingham hip resurfacing released more Cr ions than total hip arthroplasty after surgery, and the difference between the groups was statistically significant (P=0.03). (5) In conclusion, compared with total hip arthroplasty, Birmingham hip resurfacing has a smaller revision rate and overall complication, a better hip function score, but its Cr ion level is higher. This conclusion still needs further a great amount of large-sample, multi-center, high-quality randomized controlled trials to verify its correctness. 

Key words: Birmingham hip resurfacing, hip resurfacing, total hip arthroplasty, Harris hip score, metal ion, follow-up

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