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"DePuy hip recall" Most of the people in United States would be familiar with this term for the past few months. DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a division of Johnson and Johnson recalled its ASR XL Acetabular metal-on-metal hip replacement system on August 24, 2010. And now, what is this DePuy hip recall? Most of the patients, who underwent DePuy hip replacement surgeries after 2003, are said to have been implanted with defective and dangerous hip replacement products. Recent studies indicate that the five year failure rate of this product is approximately 13% that is 1 in 8 patients. With a hip replacment recall, those patients who have undergone a hip surgical procedure to replace a hip might have to undergo a revision or a second surgery. It has been reported that the defective hip system has been implanted in a total of 93,000 patients. The reason for DePuy hip recall is due to the alarming number of complaints and high revision surgery rates for the device. Only after years of published reports, studies and data indicating that the device was defective and failing in patients, this DePuy hip recall came into accomplishment. For years, patients and the victims of this surgery have been struggling on and filing lawsuits against DePuy to get a solution or a hip recall, which they finally got on August 24, 2010.
The DePuy statistics say that, approximately 12% of patients who had received the ASR resurfacing device (the product that comes as a part of DePuy hip replacement surgery) and 13% of patients who had received the total DePuy ASR hip replacement would need to have a revision surgery. Anyhow, these affected patients would undergo a painful and unnecessary DePuy hip revision surgery, though the mistake is not on their part. With this second surgery, even if the defective device is replaced, there are several impacts which are left behind. This includes dangerous and possibly deadly fragments that might not be discovered for years. DePuy identified the reasons for the failure of the hip replacement system as component loosening, infection, component misalignment, fracture of bone, dislocation, metal sensitivity and pain. Additional complications might include, increased metal ion levels in the blood, bone staining, necrosis, swelling, nerve damage, tissue damage and muscle damage. The major defective product for these occurrences lies in DePuy's ASR hip system which was manufactured and implanted in United States in the July 2003. Therefore individuals who have undergone a DePuy ASR hip replacement on and after July 2003 are estimated to have a DePuy hip recall. Victims on hiring a DePuy hip recall lawyer can protect their rights by getting the compensation they deserve.
