The US Drug Watchdog, a consumer advocacy group, is urging patients who received a metal-on-metal hip implant to receive an MRI to ensure the implant has not started to fail, according to a Reuters report.
The group fears patients with faulty implants will not receive proper compensation for premature failure, according to the report.
The fear stems from a report associating metal-on-metal implants with high revision surgery rates and an elevated risk of tissue damage due to metal shavings from the implant, the report says.
"The US Drug Watchdog is calling the U.S. metal on metal hip implant fiasco the largest medical device failure in U.S. history involving 500,000 U.S. citizens, and they are convinced there are hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens who are recipients of a metal-on-metal hip implant that has failed, or will fail prematurely," reads the group's website.
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