Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Problems

The birmingham hip resurfacing bhr system is a metal on metal hip implant manufactured by smith nephew that was used in patients who needed partial hip resurfacing or complete hip replacement.

Birmingham hip resurfacing problems. Always stiff terrible flexibility diagnosed with arthritis in both hips 2010. Hip resurfacing is a type of surgery to replace a damaged hip joint. The aim of this study was to evaluate the survival complications and functional outcome of the birmingham hip resurfacing bhr and compare it to the cementless omnifit hip prosthesis. Scary hip resurfacing problems surface regarding what the makers knew.

The bhr implant consists of a spherical metal cap on the femur leg which connects to a metal cup installed within the hip socket. At the time it was known as the birmingham hip. Struan coleman 2014 arthritis became bone on bone 2015 hip resurfacing bhr by dr. When there is damage.

It was approved by the u s. Smith nephew previously released information about the expansion of warnings in the bhr instructions for use for certain population sub groups in february 2015 and june 2015. My personal results published at a minimum follow up of ten years demonstrated the survival for male patients was 98 per cent. The hip replacement side effects train just keeps rolling.

Normally the socket is lined with cartilage which helps the bones move smoothly. Fda on may 9 2006. Never completely recovered from my right hip surgery of december of. In fact you just can t seem to make this stuff up when it comes to hip resurfacing.

In the hip joint the rounded head of the thighbone the femoral head moves smoothly inside the round socket of the hip bone. Metal on metal hip arthroplasty is developed to address specific complications experienced with the use of cementless hip arthroplasty however there is a lack of comparative studies. The design of this type of cobalt chrome molybdenum cocrmo alloy metal on metal implant is that it requires less bone removal and may not need to replace the complete worn out femur bone. Hip resurfacing is an alternative to traditional total hip replacement for some arthritis patients.

Consumers and health professionals are advised that smith nephew in consultation with the tga has issued a hazard alert for its birmingham hip resurfacing bhr system. Hip problems all my life. The birmingham hip resurfacing system was the first fda approved hip resurfacing system available for use in the united states. The birmingham hip resurfacing bhr is now over 21 years old and both derek and i have implanted this device since 1997.

2012 bilateral arthroscopy at hss by dr. The birmingham hip resurfacing system contains two main parts. The problem with the birmingham hip system is the grinding of metal against metal which leads to the accumulation of tiny particles of metal around the joint. The concept was that a much smaller device would be inserted into the.