With the evolution of hip arthroscopy, it has been used as joint preserving surgery for osteoarthritis among various other indications. The purpose of this study was to assess the factors that affect the subgroup of patients with osteoarthritis that have had total hip replacements following hip arthroscopy. Data was retrieved retrospectively from 556 osteoarthritic patients' files that have had hip arthroscopy between the years 2002 to 2009 (mean follow up time 3.2 – range 1 to 6.4 years). Eighty-three (15%) of them have had eventually total hip replacement. The data analysis included different variables (i.e. age, arthritic stage, repeated procedures) that may have influenced the time elapsed between the hip arthroscopy and consecutive replacement procedures.Introduction
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