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Orthopedics: Hip - Recovery
Reoccurrence, Recovery
September 03, 2008
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"How Long Will the Hip Replacement Last?" featuring Dr. Sculco
Doctor Thomas P. Sculco, Surgeon-in-Chief at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, notes how hip replacements last much longer than patients expect them to.
Transcript for "How Long Will the Hip Replacement Last?" featuring Dr. Sculco
About 90% of patients are going to be doing well with that implant in twenty years. The last important thing that patients always ask me, and I think is important to discuss and patients want to know is, "I'm going to have a hip replacement, I'm fifty years old, what's the life-expectancy of this implant?" And the good news is that you can pretty assuredly tell patients that ten years from the operation, 95-97% of these hips are performing well. And if you take these numbers and extrapolate them out to twenty years about 90% of patients are going to be doing well with that implant in twenty years, so the numbers are quite good.
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