Joint registry report finds Metal-on-Metal hip replacements more prone to revision

Joint registry report finds metal-on-metal hip replacements more prone to revision (OrthoSuperSite)
Metal-on-metal hip replacement device failure is still a cause for concern, particularly in women, according to the recently released 2011 National Joint Registry of England and Wales Annual Report.
According to the report, revision rates among hip devices are “by far the highest” in the two main categories of metal-on-metal (MoM) devices —resurfacing devices and those known simply as “metal-on-metal”. Devices in the revision subset carried revision rates of 11.81%, with those in the MoM subset...