New MHRA alert for metal-on-metal hip replacements
Published date : 28 February 2012
Article date : 28 February 2012
Today (28/02/2012) the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) issued fresh advice to clinicians, following earlier fears for the safety of metal-on-metal (MoM) hip replacements. According to the MHRA, patients with a particular type of metal-on-metal hip replacement should be monitored annually for the life of the hip replacement, and not just for the minimum 5 year post-operative period originally stated in April 2010.