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Hip Resurfacing General Questions => Polls about Hip Resurfacing => Topic started by: tonyp on March 20, 2014, 10:48:53 PM

Title: What are your Metal Levels?
Post by: tonyp on March 20, 2014, 10:48:53 PM
I'm really curious about what metal levels people have!  What are your levels?  How do your hips feel?  Bilater/unilateral?  Doctor?

Thanks for your help and input!

tony
Title: Re: What are your Metal Levels?
Post by: hernanu on March 21, 2014, 09:44:12 AM
Chromium - 3.4  ;D
Cobalt - 3.1      ;D

Bilateral, feeling pretty fine.
Title: Re: What are your Metal Levels?
Post by: Miguelito on March 21, 2014, 07:19:20 PM
I apologize, figures from memory, but are between .5 and 1.1 for cobalt and chromium. Two years after first hip, pre second hip. Same or lower than gen pop. Dr. Gross indicated that this is happening a lot with the lower angles.
Title: Re: What are your Metal Levels?
Post by: tonyp on March 21, 2014, 08:16:05 PM
Wow - encouraging!  Thanks:)
Title: Re: What are your Metal Levels?
Post by: Wyoming Kim on January 01, 2016, 07:50:14 PM
First tests I had were done the second year w/new implant...
Chromium 3.4
Cobalt 3.2
Second test done in third year...
Chromium 3.2
Cobalt 1.6
Title: Re: What are your Metal Levels?
Post by: karlos.bell on February 29, 2016, 02:00:46 PM
 :) Approx  3.4 both @ 11 months bilateral. No issues. Cheers k
Title: Re: What are your Metal Levels?
Post by: Neild5 on March 10, 2016, 05:31:28 PM
4 year on right, 5 on left cobalt is 1.2, chromium is 1.6. 
Title: Re: What are your Metal Levels?
Post by: karlos.bell on May 09, 2018, 04:15:38 AM
 :)   Cobalt 191 nmol/L. or 0.191 ppm
        Chromium 147 nmol/L or 0.147 ppm.
I think this is correct for ppm.  March 2017 2 years after op.

Perfect I was told. Conserve plus
Title: Re: What are your Metal Levels?
Post by: John C on May 10, 2018, 09:55:29 PM
From memory, the first test on my left hip was done about two years after surgery, and the numbers were between 1.5 and 3. They dropped in the following years, and since about year six they have been consistently reported as less than 1.  My right hip was just done, so the first test will not be for two years.
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