Cobaltemia and Cobaltism are common in Alaskans with failed Metal-metal Hips
Cobaltemia and Cobaltism are common in Alaskans with failed Metal-metal Hips by Dr Stephen Tower Introduction Systemic cobalt poisoning from …
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Nearly 5,600 DePuy Pinnacle Hip Lawsuits Now Pending Litigation
Source: DePuy Pinnacle Lawsuit News: Nearly 5,600 DePuy Pinnacle Hip Lawsuits Now Pending in Federal Multidistrict Litigation, Bernstein Liebhard LLP Reports …
Smith & Nephew Hip Implant Patient Diagnosed with Metallosis
Smith & Nephew Hip Implant Patient Diagnosed with Metallosis. Smith & Nephew Hip Implant Patient Diagnosed with Metallosis March 3, …
Johnson & Johnson Recalls Thousands of Hip Implants – ABC News
Johnson & Johnson Recalls Thousands of Hip Implants – ABC News. BERLIN February 14, 2013 (AP) A German newspaper reports …
DePuy Pinnacle Hip Lawsuits: Bernstein Liebhard LLP Notes New Order in Federal DePuy Pinnacle Litigation
DePuy Pinnacle Hip Lawsuits: Bernstein Liebhard LLP Notes New Order in Federal DePuy Pinnacle Litigation. DePuy Pinnacle Hip Lawsuits: Bernstein …
Stephanie’s Metal on Metal Systemic Problems
I am female aged 62yrs and live in the UK. I had a revision hip replacement due to high level …
Jenny’s DePuy MoM horror story – some surgeon’s need to be a little smarter…
Hello Everyone, I too have suffered with a MoM DePuy hip installed May of 2006. The surgeon told me this …
UK – Deb’s story of Hell with MoM and DuPuy ASR
Four hips in three and a half years was not exactly what I bargained for Having spent lived a very …
US Drug Watchdog Now Calls All Metal Hip Implant Failures the Biggest Disaster Ever
US Drug Watchdog Now Calls All Metal Hip Implant Failures the Biggest Disaster Ever for up to 500,000 U.S. Citizens …
Visit to the Surgeon Monday 18th July 2011
11 am rolled around quickly… This was the first time I had met the private orthopaedic surgeon and I was …
Durable Implantable Devices Materialize with Ceramics
Durable Implantable Devices Materialize with Ceramics By: Shana Leonard Originally Published MPMN March 2006 Shana Leonard Ceramic coatings on …
Arthroscopic Hip Procedure
Arthroscopic Hip Procedure: A Way to Prevent Total Hip Replacement Author: Gregory Fraser Total Hip Replacement (THR) or simply Hip …
Juergen’s DePuy Hip Replacement Nightmare – Down, But Fighting Back
Company and Surgeon Run Away When Worker is Gunned Down by a Bad Hip and a Dodgy DePuy Hip Implant …
Will the Wright Profemur® Hip Replacement be Recalled?
Wright Profemur® Z Hip Implant Failure Rate As of February 2011, there has not been a Wright Profemur® Hip Replacement …
Update on Hips
Hip pain is making movement more and more of a chore. Right hip, the Birmingham Spectron one, is painful from …
Cobalt and Chromium Toxicity – MoM Hip Replacements
Can cobalt levels estimate in-vivo wear of metal-on-metal bearings used in hip arthroplasty? M Khan1,2*, J H Kuiper1,2, and J …
Lessons Learned from MoM Hip Implant Failures
Bad bearings By Stephen S. Tower, MD Source: click here Lessons learned from failures of this generation of MoM hip …
Metal on Metal Hip Replacement Debate
Bearing surfaces: Is MOM worth the risk? By Mary Ann Porucznik Download as a PDF Implications differ, depending on use …
Perspectives on Modern Orthopaedics
Metal-on-metal Bearing Surfaces Joshua J. Jacobs, MD, Robert M. Urban, Nadim J. Hallab, PhD, Anastasia K. Skipor, MS, Alfons Fischer, …
Q&A on MoM Hip Implants
Questions and Answers About Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants Source: click here The hip is one of the body’s largest weight-bearing joints. …
FDA Takes Action on MoM Hip Implants
FDA orders post-market studies on MOM hip implants By Jeanie Kennedy and Katherine Sale On May 9, 2011, the U.S. …
Hip Resurfacing (HR) in Young versus Total Hip Replacement THR)
Metal on metal hip resurfacing versus uncemented custom total hip replacement – early results Nemandra A Sandiford1*, Sarah K Muirhead-Allwood1,2, …
Cobalt & Chrome Levels in BHR Recipients Elevated
This scientific article is worth a close read – I have more work to do on it and the papers …
Birmingham Hip Replacement – Manufacturing Process Problem?
This video from what I understand to be one of the most respected British BHR Hip Replacement Centres is extremely …
Lots of Video Content Added
Lots of Video content added today: 41 videos under the Video Tab – all about Hip Replacement Surgery 10 videos …
More Pages Added
Productive day with lot’s more useful information added, and various new pages. The Video tab has some really interesting videos …
Finished off More Pages
Queen’s Birthday Monday – more time with anger management – finished off the section on Current Issues with My Hip …
Hip Hell
I have added a new page to the Blog called “Hip Hell” which is going to be devoted to Hip …