A recent New York times article reported that studies involving patients with metal-on-metal artificial hips are suffering from health problems, including tissue destruction, as the hips shed tiny pieces of metallic debris.
The article describes one particular case where the surgeons removing of one of these dangerous artificial metal hips saw, "a biological dead zone...[with] matted strands of tissue stained gray and black, [and] a large strip of muscle near the hip no longer contracted."
More frightening than the destruction caused by the dangerous metallic debris from the artificial hips is that some patients have no obvious symptoms, like pain, to warn them that there tissue and muscle is being destroyed.
The article describes one particular case where the surgeons removing of one of these dangerous artificial metal hips saw, "a biological dead zone...[with] matted strands of tissue stained gray and black, [and] a large strip of muscle near the hip no longer contracted."
More frightening than the destruction caused by the dangerous metallic debris from the artificial hips is that some patients have no obvious symptoms, like pain, to warn them that there tissue and muscle is being destroyed.
