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look now about hips
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they were talking about metal on metal hip joints and how they having to remove a certain type (they used mainly in the young 30ish) as metal on metal causing problems very interesting valval0
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Thank you Val. Missed it unfortunately. I wonder if anyone else can add more information?
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I saw the programme, and it's worrying for anyone who has had one of these metal on metal type of hip replacements in the past. A lot of them have failed because the metal has worn away, causing problems. Apparently, it is only one particular type which is now having to be replaced.0
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Joans right it was one sort it can cause higher levels of metals in the blood that's one way they can detect there is a problem, like all things medical and mechanical there can be design faults that only come out years later, they did say it was only a small % of those fitted but if your worried then I would go to your GP and have a word.0
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