November 16, 2012
Institutional Review Board, Hospital for Special Surgery
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Vivian Bykerk, BSc, MD, FRCPC
Steven Goldring, MD
Ed Purdue, PhD
Mark P. Figgie, MD
Michael Alexiades, MD
Thomas Sculco, MD
Eduardo A. Salvati, MD
Edward F. DiCarlo, MD
Alejandro Gonzalez Della Valle, MD
Gerald Nabozny, PhD
Sudha Visvanathan, PhD
Daw-Tsun Shih, PhD
Target enrollment : 45 patients over 2 years
Inclusion Criteria
All Subjects:
• Age > 18 yrs
Cases:
• Patients with psoriatic arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis undergoing total hip replacements
• Satisfy either ASAS or Caspar criteria (see below), or be diagnosed with SPA and treated with DMARDS/biologics by a rheumatologist.
• Onset of symptoms < 45 yrs
Controls
• Patients with osteoarthritis undergoing second primary total hip replacement
o All must have had a previous contralateral hip replacement
o Half will have evidence of HO on their previous THA ( HIGH risk for excess bone formation)
o Half will have NO evidence of HO on their previous THA ( LOW risk for excess bone formation)
Exclusion
• Diagnosis of any systemic rheumatic disease or crystalline arthropathy
• Unable to understand or read English.
• Unable to follow the study protocol in a reliable manner
Lisa A. Mandl MD MPH
MandlL@hss.edu
212.774.2555