Industry based evidence synthesis

In 2017, me and colleagues published both a literature and registry based analysis of use of metal-on-metal hip replacements. This study, titled Lack of evidence—the anti-stepwise introduction of metal-on-metal hip replacements, was a hypothesis-driven study since at that time it seemed that the use of ASR hip replacements was not that evidence based but mainly […]

Declining incidence of MoM revision surgeries

Our recent study investigating annual trends of revision surgeries in patients with MoM hip replacements was recently published in the Journal of Arthroplasty (www). Here is the GrAbstract of the study: This study is of great importance because it is the largest non-registry based study investigating what sort of trends the number of revision surgeries […]

Metal-on-metal hips on the Gartner Hype Cycle

This post describes an adaptation of Gartner Hype Cycle on metal-on-metal hip replacements. It is very unlikely that MoM hip replacements will achieve the “Plateau of Productivity“. Therefore two other later stages are proposed with annotations. Reference 1. Harris WH. Osteolysis and particle disease in hip replacement. A review. Acta Orthop Scand. 1994 Feb;65(1):113-23. 2. […]

Metal-on-metal hip resurfacings and the year 2019

Hellman et al. addressed the proposed advantages of metal-on-metal (MoM) hip resurfacings (HR) over tradition total hip replacements (THR) in their recent systematic review. There has been relative paucity in the literature regarding positive studies in MoM HRs. Some single surgeon and single center studies have been published, but in general, the study by Hellman […]

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