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Old 07-20-2015, 04:14 PM
Cheryl0331 Cheryl0331 is offline
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Originally Posted by jss View Post
Tim,

What a terrible story. Thanks for posting it.

You are the second poster we've seen here that has had a failure of an M6-C proper. The other failure sounded the same as yours; the annulus had migrated out of the implant. Per his account, Spinal Kinetics claims to have fixed that problem. I got my pair of M6-C's two years after you got yours. I am left to wonder if I received the one with the problem, or the one with that problem fixed.

Osteolysis is not uncommon with some form of heavy metal poisoning; which is why MOM (metal on metal) hip implants have fallen out of favor. Since the annulus migrated out of at least one of your implants, you probably ended up with the M6's metal end plates articulating against each other. I don't know if osteolysis resolves when the metal source is removed. Since your new doctor wants to anchor screws in those thinned bones, it sounds like he believes it should.

Wishing you the very best of luck on the 23'rd. Please update us when you're able. (looking forward to your images of the failed M6's if you can get them up)

Good luck!
Hi JSS, Who was the 1st? Do you recall the outcome of that one?
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54 yr old female 5'7" 147 lbs. non-smoker conservative treatments failed
2007 fusion @ C4-6 peek cages, failed due to long term use of cox-2 inhibitor
2008 revised C4-6 donor bone, plate & screws
2009 fusion with Roi-C @ C3-4
2015 MRI & CT mjr ddd @ C6-7, segmental kyphosis at C7-T1, 2-level M6-C prosthesis by Dr. Clavel Barcelona Spain
2019 H.O. formed behind M6-C @ C6-7 left nerve rt & in spinal canal.
2020 Revision C6-7 to a CP-ESP prosthesis by Dr. Schmitz Dusseldorf Germany
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