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BIRMINGHAM HIP™

Resurfacing System

Clinical Evidence

Surgical Techniques

BHR Surgical Technique
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Globally proven clinical results

The BIRMINGHAM HIP^◊ Resurfacing (BHR^◊) System has demonstrated exceptional clinical results worldwide.

Published articles from around the world demonstrate unrivaled performance of the BHR device in many surgical centers.

Author	Site	N	Survival	Follow Up

McMinn et al ³	Birmingham	1,626	98.4	5 years

Shimmin et al ⁴	Melbourne	230	99.1	5 years

Treacy et al ⁵	Birmingham	144	98.0	5 years

Nishii et al ⁶	Osaka	50	96.0	5 years

Steffen et al ⁷	Oxford	79	95.1	7 years

Oswestry Registry ⁸	8 countries – 45 surgeons	1,354	97.2	7 years

The BHR system is the world leader of hip resurfacing

The 2008 Australian Joint Replacement Registry Annual Report² contains data from September 1999 to December 2007 and is among the most compliant registries globally.

With 7,682 implantations, the BHR device accounts for 72% of all resurfacing devices implanted to date in the registry.
The BHR device has follow up from the inception of the registry in 1999 and consistently shows the lowest recorded revision rate of any resurfacing device for seven years.

Australian National Joint Registry Annual Report 2008 – Yearly cumulative percentage revision of resurfacing hip systems

	Cumulative percent revised

Resurfacing product	1 year	2 years	3 years	5 Years	7 Years

ASR^TM	3.8	5.3	6.0

Adept^TM	0.5	4.8

BHR	1.5	2.1	2.5	3.6	4.6

Conserve Plus^TM	3.2	3.2	6.0	10.1

Cormet^®	2.1	3.3	4.5	6.5

Cormet 2000 (HAP)	6.3	7.4	8.4	10.3

Durom^®	3.5	4.7	5.8

Mitch^TM TRH	1.7

Recap^®	5.7	5.7	5.7