63-Year Old Hip Resurfacing Device found in 91 Year Old Woman

[Jeremy76761]

Check out this hip resurfacing device implanted in 1949 and still going strong in 2011! ! !

I especially dig the advertisement from the Zimmer catalogue, 1975.

http://web.jbjs.org.uk/content/78-B/3/496.full.pdf

http://bonesmart.org/public_forum/hip-arthroplasty-follow-up-62-years-t12848.html

http://web.jbjs.org.uk/content/93-B/9/1285.abstract

Anyone ever heard of this one?

--Jeremy

[Luanna]

That's amazing!!!! I guess you'd call that metal on bone.....

Luanna

[hernanu]

Great to hear. Hopefully we can better that.

[B.I.L.L.]

Great to hear. Hopefully we can better that.

If mine lasts 63 years I'll be 112. 

[hernanu]

Great to hear. Hopefully we can better that.

If mine lasts 63 years I'll be 112.

And probably still riding, Bill.

[Aerial]

Wow, that is really interesting.  I will be well over 100 as well if mine lasts that long!

[hipnhop]

shows me the US is lagging. yo know what they say. the money is in the medicine. Why advance a cure? Pain med companies have to make millions.

[Dannywayoflife]

Wow!!!  I really do think that my bhr might truely last a life time then! As it's far more modern and the engineering is light years ahead of that!

[B.I.L.L.]

Great to hear. Hopefully we can better that.

If mine lasts 63 years I'll be 112.

And probably still riding, Bill.

Long as I can still get on the thing I'm in 8)

[Jeremy76761]

Being such an old device, it HAS to bode well, I agree!

Hipnhop, too true. How much money is there in pain medication. Pain is certain and the standard medication remedies sure to work to some extent, placebo or not. But putting money into researching solutions that are far too new to work, that's just a bet with higher risks. So I'm told, the more research supporting a medical solution, the more attractive it becomes to investors, bringing in more and more funding until a kind of race occurrs not until the very end.

[obxpelican]

That's so funny, I was just doing the math when I started viewing the posts.   



Chuck

Great to hear. Hopefully we can better that.

If mine lasts 63 years I'll be 112.

[B.I.L.L.]

That's so funny, I was just doing the math when I started viewing the posts.   



Chuck

Great to hear. Hopefully we can better that.

If mine lasts 63 years I'll be 112.

Great minds think alike   ;D

[Dannywayoflife]

This is yet more evidence that vitalium is a safe material in human arthroplasty. Wonder how many "psudotumors" this lady had in 63 years?! As has already been said it has to bode well for the modern bhr etc as this was a very very crude device and it's lasted pretty much a lifetime! I'd bet that she wont need a revision!