Preoperative Delayed Gadolinium-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cartilage (dGEMRIC) for Patients Undergoing Hip Arthroscopy: Indices Are Predictive of Magnitude of Improvement in Two-Year Patient-Reported Outcomes

Conclusions:
Patients with a dGEMRIC index of ≥323 msec (less than one SD below the cohort mean) demonstrated significantly greater improvement in patient-reported outcome scores and the VAS for pain after hip arthroscopy.

Level of Evidence:
Prognostic Level IV. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.

Source: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - August 19, 2015 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Chandrasekaran, S., Vemula, S. P., Lindner, D., Lodhia, P., Suarez-Ahedo, C., Domb, B. G. Tags: Hip, Sports Medicine Scientific Articles Source Type: research