Parker McDonald is reviewing potential hip replacement lawsuits involving individuals who were implanted with the DePuy Orthopaedics ASR XL Acetabular Hip Replacement System or the DePuy metal-on-metal Pinnacle Acetabular Cup System. Both devices are manufactured by Depuy Orthopaedics, a division of Johnson and Johnson. Parker McDonald, P.C. has established www.hipimplantrecovery.com to provide the latest information for concerned DePuy ASR and Pinnacle hip implant patients.
For more information:
- Health Warning Over Hip Implants
- AAOS: Modern Metal-On-Metal Hip Implants A Technology Overview
- Investigation Find Number of Recalls for Replacement Body Parts
- NY Times: Metal Hips Failing Fast, Report Says
- Insight: DePuy’s handling of hip recall sparks questions
- Study of Medical Device Rules Is Attacked, Unseen
- NYTimes: In Medicine, New Isn’t Always Improved
- NYTimes: Hip Makers Told to Study More Data
- Bloomberg: J&J Hip Implant Failure Rate as High as 49 Percent
- NYTimes: The Implants Loophole
- NYTimes: With Warning, Hip Device is Withdrawn
- NYTimes: Johnson & Johnson Recalls Hip Implants
- Johnson&Johnson reaches for a Band-Aid
- FDA Metal on Metal Hip Implants Site
Defective DePuy Hip Replacement Lawyers
On August 24, 2010, DePuy Orthopaedics finally announced a formal recall of its dangerous and defective ASR hip implant device. This defective device was implanted in patients between 2005 and August 24, 2010. A total of 93,000 prostheses are affected. The recall decision was prompted by unpublished data from the National Joint Registry of England and Wales showing that more patients than expected who received implants with one of the devices experienced pain and other adverse side effects that led to a second hip replacement surgery.
DePuy has announced that up to 13% of patients who received one of these devices will require a replacement or revision surgery. Revision surgery is a painful and expensive process in which the defective ASR cup is removed and replaced with a different device.
The DePuy Pinnacle Acetabular System, which was approved in 2002, has not yet been recalled but utilizes a metal-on-metal design like the defective DePuy ASR device. Many Pinnacle patients have experienced similar symptoms to those who were implanted with the recalled ASR device, including high levels of the toxic metals Chromium and Cobalt in the blood, hip implant loosening, and early implant failure.
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IIf you or a loved one received an ASR or metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implant and have experienced problems, you may qualify for compensation for the costs of additional surgeries and related medical care, physical incapacity, disfigurement and your pain and suffering and mental anguish. It is important that you understand your legal rights. We handle DePuy implant cases nationwide.
