(HealthDay News) – Among elderly patients receiving total hip replacements for osteoarthritis, the risk of revision hip replacement is highest in the 18 months after surgery and among those aged 65–75 ...

Over the past two years, an expert in revision hip and knee replacement surgery has seen an increase in the number of people needing a second surgery. When a knee or hip implant wears out or another ...

Hip Resurfacing Shows Higher Failure Rate Than Replacement Younger, taller, and heavier patients who undergo primary total hip replacement (THR) are at a greater risk of needing a revision surgery.

Data released from the Canadian Institutes for Health Information show five-year revision rates for total hip replacement procedures to be low, though metal-on-metal implants bring slightly higher ...

A comprehensive study using nationwide data on hip and knee replacements in England has found that one in 75 patients require a revision of their joint replacement after three years. Although this ...

Arthritis Care Research News Alerts. 2008;59(4):738-745. Along with age and injuries, obesity is a leading risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA), a painful and disabling joint disease. While excessive ...

A long-term follow-up study from Australia confirms that hip implants with components made of cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) substantially lower the risk of revision surgery after total hip ...

A team of scientists from the Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Center of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) (head -- Prof. A.I.

With increasing life expectancy, frailty and hip fractures will correspondingly increase in numbers, now at more than 300,000 fractures per year and projected to rise to more than 500,000 by 2040. Hip ...

March 22, 2018 - As more patients undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA) before age 65, the rate of repeat hip surgery due to complications has risen sharply in this younger age group, reports a study ...

Hip arthroplasty revision is highest in the first 18 months after the index arthroplasty. Revision risk is also higher in younger patients who are more likely to survive to require revision. Jeffrey N ...