A “significant” number of hip replacements surgically implanted into British patients were the wrong size, a scientific study has found.
Research carried out by orthopaedic surgeons and engineers discovered that over a third of the devices analysed fell out of the size limits set by the company making them, with devices implanted after 2006 most affected.
The paper, published in the British Medical Journal Open, describes how many of the Pinnacle metal-on-metal components made by Depuy were “found to be manufactured out of their specifications”.
