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Hey you who have this implant, how many years your implant have been lasted whiteout issues?

I'm wondering about this too. I see a lot of fast TItan failures here, but the studies I saw a few years ago said failure rates were similar.

I'll be 5 years this month and believe me, we use it nearly every day. It makes being old a little better.

tomas1 wrote:I'll be 5 years this month and believe me, we use it nearly every day. It makes being old a little better.

That sounds fantastic...

Sonny1986ams700 wrote:Hey you who have this implant, how many years your implant have been lasted whiteout issues?

6 years in March. The repair was for a perforation and no parts of the original device were replaced.

Implanted with LGX 18+5 on 31 Jan 2019. Just passed the four year mark a week ago.

Every medical device should be thus reliable. I suspect I use mine more in a month than some younger guys use their original equipment in a year.

My first AMS LGX lasted 7 years, now 2 years into the second one. Both the first and second gets plenty of use.
I think 7 years is fairly typical, however it would be good to see some data on life span and failure mode

I'm at two years and no problems at all. One of the Patient Champions that Boston Scientific hooked me up with to ask questions about the implant had his first LGX implant for 15 years, he got installed with the second one about two years ago in 2021. His first one developed a leak I think in the reservoir area.

PM me if you have questions you want to ask.

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I'm not implemented yet, but read a lot about it.

I expect to last between 6 and 8 years. Everything shorter would be a lose and above a win.

Txagq8 wrote:Implanted with LGX 18+5 on 31 Jan 2019. Just passed the four year mark a week ago.
Every medical device should be thus reliable. I suspect I use mine more in a month than some younger guys use their original equipment in a year.

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