Metal-On-Metal Hip Replacements - Failure Rates Are High - News

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Metal-On-Metal Hip Replacements - Failure Rates Are High

Thursday, 15 March 2012 01:00 Written by MNT

The Lancet has published 'unequivocal evidence' from the world's largest database on hip replacements, which confirms that stemmed metal-on-metal (MOM) implants, especially those with a larger head size and those implanted in women, whose failure rates are up to four times higher, have a substantially higher fail rate than hip implants made from other materials...

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