Expert Roundtable

Wednesday:  February 16, 2011
12:00 pm to 12:30 pm

Metal-on-Metal Hips:  What’s the Controversy and Do we Really Have a Problem?

New research includes:

• Implant survival of metal-on-metal hip resurfacing: a systematic review
  
  
• Use of ultrasound in the diagnosis of Adverse Reaction to Metallic Debris in MoM hip replacements
  
  
• Inflammatory Cytokines are Elevated in Patients with Adverse Reactions to Metal-on-Metal THA's
  
  
• Outcome of Metal on Metal articulation in primary Conventional THA: Analysis of 17,775 procedures

Featured expert at roundtable:  Joshua Jacobs, MD, orthopaedic surgeon in Chicago, Ill.