Fda Prodded To Monitor Artificial Hip Implants

This year, the United States Food and Drug Administration received 5

,000 complaints against faulty synthetic hips. Failed hip replacements widely used were known such as metal-on-metal hips, according to an analysis of federal data by the New York Times website.

The report says that the FDA had received four times as many as the total in the last four years combined. A report from Australias Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported that the countrys Senate is shocked by the intolerable and unacceptable suffering of hundreds of patients who were implanted with metal-on-metal hip implants manufactured by DePuy.

According to FDA, those patients who received metal-on-metal hip implant that had the ball and socket of the device both made from metal claimed that what led them to hip implants is when their hip joint deteriorated, and that they started feeling the symptoms such as pain, stiffness or difficulty in walking.

However, there are other ways to treat painful hip conditions such as physical therapy, exercise and medication. Although, when a patients signs do not react to this natural way of treatment, an orthopaedist may endorse the hip replacement or total hip resurfacing.

According to the New York Times, the patients who filed complaints before the FDA are those who have had an all-metal hip removed, or will soon undergo such a procedure because a device failed after only a few years. Naturally, an artificial hip may last 15 years or more.

Since the Medtronic recalled a widely used heart device component in 2007, medical expert feared that the mounting complaints of the all-metal hip replacements is turning to become the next biggest and most costly medical implant problem in history. About 7,700 complaints have been filed which is associated with the recall, the New York Times says

Though the website says that the snags with the hip implants are not lethal, some patients may have encountered crippling injuries caused by tiny particles of cobalt and chromium that the metal devices shed as they wear.

In the United States, one of the most common operations is hip replacement.

However, the FDA says that many all-metal devices were sold without testing in patients. Most of them skipped the requirements in which producers encountered difficulty in tracking its performance. Failure with the design may have tapped the non-stop surge in the number of protests leading to court case such as the DePuy Pinnacle lawsuit.

by: Gregory Fraser

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