JNJ Announces DePuy Hip Recall After 49 Percent Failure Rate

JNJ Announces DePuy Hip Recall After 49 Percent Failure Rate

One of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) DePuy's hip prosthesis failed in the United Kingdom for 49% of the time, or four times as what the company quoted in 2010 which produced the latest DePuy hip recall, a British orthopedic group affirmed. Gathered data confirmed by the British Orthopedic Association and The British Hip Society this from four surgeons explains that the ASR XL Acetabular show the rate of revision operations has raised from 21% after four years to 49% after six years.

An orthopedic surgeon and chairman of the group's expert advisory on metal bearing hips, John Skinner declared in a telephone interview that "It's probably the best indicator so far of what the failure rate is likely to be." He also added, "As far as I can tell, it's reliable." Skinner stated that the information must first be peer reviewed as the requirement of publication.

The DePuy hip recall consists of the ASR hip resurfacing system and the ASR XL in August 2010. The company announced unpublished data from the National Joint Registry for England and Wales saying that 12% of patients with resurfaced hips needed revision surgeries within five years, and 13% of ASR XL patients also needed second operations in five years. These two devices uses with metal balls and sockets designed to substitute the unhealthful hips. But the surgeons did not report anything about the resurfacing system in the statement.

Together with their hip recall lawyers, patients have filed failure to warn, negligence, and product liability claims against DePuy for the defective devices, and searching for damages, lost wages, and medical expenses, for their misery and pain. There are over 220 claims waiting for the due process in California state courts, and Over 350 lawsuits have been collected in federal court in Ohio,. An additional set of cases are pending in New Jersey court.

Lexi Hazam "suggests that DePuy has a bigger problem on its hands than it has acknowledged." Hazam represents clients in trial of hip DePuy hip recall lawsuits is from Lief Cabraser Heimann & of Bernstein LLP in San Francisco.

The ASR hip system has been manufactured and implanted in the United States since back in July 2003. This means that individuals that have their hips replaced on and after July 2003 should determine if they received a DePuy ASR and are affected by theDePuy ASR hip recall. You can contact your orthopedic surgeon or the hospital where the surgery took place to find out whether you received an ASRDePuy Hip. The next step is to hire your very ownDePuy hip recall lawyer to help you protect your rights, and recover the compensation you deserveinahip recall lawsuit against DePuy, the manufacturer of the device.

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