Serious Side Effects Of Metal Toxicity Bared

Higher cobalt presence have been reported among failed implant recipients in Australia

, the NBC news website reports, exposing alarming evidence of a wide range of toxic effects.

Metal toxicity is being defined as a medical scandal based on the expos presented on the Four Corners program, a special presentation for video, extended analysis, and background information of ABC News.

The NBC News website states that the Four Corners aired an investigative report on the hip implants, which displays an upsetting proof of possible impairment.

Pathology labs have recorded much higher levels of cobalt than previously noted, it adds, raising hints that the presence of metal bits carries with it the potential for toxic effects in the worst-affected patients. The wide range of toxic effects includes blindness, deafness, seizures, cognitive problems, and heart failure.

While it is being looked upon as the scandal involving defective prostheses, it is considered as the biggest disaster in the history of orthopaedics. This has resulted to hundreds of patients who ran the risk of being poisoned and who had seriously been disabled.

This report may soon cause amendment in the way medical devices are approved for use in Australia. However, the New York Daily News says that baby boomers are fueling the need for more knee and hip replacement surgeries.

The South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon will soon demand for a senate inquiry into the approval process for medical devices such as the articular surface replacement (ASR) hip, which did not undergo clinical trials as part of its assessment, according to the Four Corners portion of the ABC News website .

The ASR hip was made and marketed by DePuy Orthopaedics, a subsidiary of the Johnson & Johnson healthcare empire.

There have been demands for a probe of the regulation of Australia's $4 billion medical devices industry resulting to the recall of the out of order artificial hips that left hundreds of Australians in excruciating pain.

The Four Corners scrutiny over exploring the circumstances which may have led to last year's global recall of the DePuy ASR hip joint. Experts in the United Kingdom and in Australia say that for many years they had warned DePuy and Johnson & Johnson that the device was failing.

DePuy dispensed a universal recall of the artificial hips in 2010 after willingly withdrawn it from the Australian market in 2009. Statistic shows that up to 93,000 patients globally got the implants, and about 5,500 of them were Australians.

This year the US regulators in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrote the manufacturers of metal-on-metal hip prostheses, demanding that they study patients who have received their devices.

The appeal mirrored public worries claiming that the joints may bring potential harm of toxic metal ions and resulting to decrease the number of patients filing DePuy lawsuit.

by: Gregory Fraser

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