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Health, Hip Replacement, hip resurfacing, Hip Revisions, joint replacement, knee replacement, Knee Replacement Recall, Orthopedic surgery, Patient, surgery
Scottish Arthroplasty Project Annual Report 2009
This report can be downloaded here – click here
It is really very interesting BUT what really stuck out was the high percentage of hip revisions…
And for Knee Replacements, the revision rate was about half – around 7%.
The Age of patients for hip replacements is “quite elderly”…
And the reason seems to be principally Inflammatory Arthritis…
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