Category Archives: Metal Ions/Pseudotumors
Updated Guidelines To Monitor Metal on Metal Devices by UK’s MHRA 2017
Original MEDICAL DEVICE ALERT by UK MHRA 2017 Available Here The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) UK has called for longer-term monitoring of all patients fitted with metal-on-metal hip implants, as a precautionary measure, in an update to its original guidance issued in 2012. “MHRA, in colsultation with … Continue reading →
Metal in Total Hip Arthroplasty: Wear Particles, Biology, and Diagnosis
Very Interesting article explaining metal on metal wear in total hip replacement which is similar to hip resurfacing mom devices. Read Article Here Continue reading →
Normal Levels of Cobalt and Chromium after Hip Resurfacing
View Complete Study Here Studies were searched for in the Medline database, Embase, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Highest mean or median ion concentrations of Cr and Co after a minimum of 1 year of follow-up were extracted and grouped according to sample- and articulation type, and average … Continue reading →
Guidelines to Follow-Up MOM Devices Not Cost Effective
Original Article Here A new study about adverse reactions to metal debris after Metal on Metal THR and Hip Resurfacing shows the current follow-up guidelines worldwide are not cost effective or evidence-based. The follow-up guidelines for metal-on-metal (MoM) hip arthroplasty and hip resurfacing from five worldwide authorities worldwide, including the U.K. were included. … Continue reading →
Blood cobalt levels, device type may predict metal-on-metal hip failure study 2014
The clinical implications of elevated blood metal ion concentrations in asymptomatic patients with MoM hip resurfacings: a cohort study David J Langton, Raghavendra P Sidaginamale, Thomas J Joyce, Shonali Natu, Peter Blain, Robert Drysdale Jefferson, Stephen Rushton, Antoni V F Nargol Full Study Here 10.1136/ bmjopen-2012-001541 January 31, 2014 Objective: To determine whether elevated blood… Continue reading →
Two-year Study of serum metal ion levels in hipresurfacing 2014
Metal ion release following hip replacement
The effect of component size and metal ions after resurfacing arthroplasty
Soft Tissue Reactions to Metal-on-Metal Arthroplasty
Risk Factors for Inflammatory Pseudotumour Formation Study
Distribution of Chromium and Cobalt Ions Resurfacing Hip Arthroplasty
Updated 8/29/08 Leonard R. Walter MBBS(Syd), FRACS, FAOrthA, Ed Marel MBBS(Syd), FRCS Ed (Orth), FRACS, FAOrthAa, Richard Harbury MBBS(Syd), FRACS, FAOrthAa and Jenny Wearne RN aPeninsula Orthopaedics Research Institute, DEE WHY NSW 2099, Australia Received 28 November 2006; accepted 7 July 2007 Abstract The most appropriate blood fraction for the measurement of metal ions in… Continue reading →