Assessing for Cardiotoxicity from Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants with Advanced Multimodality Imaging Techniques
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 12392
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.2106/JBJS.16.00743
- Title of journal
- Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, American Volume
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- First page
- 1827
- Volume
- 99
- Issue
- 21
- ISSN
- 0021-9355
- Open access status
- Technical exception
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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12
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This study used cardiac MRI to look for cobalt-induced toxicity in patients with high cobalt blood levels from their hip implants. Taken together with our joint registry study on the same subject this helped the head of the NHS, Sir Bruce Keogh, to reassure 56,000 patients in the UK who have metal hips that they were not at an increased risk of heart failure due to their implant. This study helped the UK government deal with "one of the biggest threats to the NHS: potential panic from these patients", said Bruce Keogh.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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