1 out of 2 patients Needs Revision Surgery-UK Patient Registry Data

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Angeles, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) April 4, 2011 -- PORT ANGELES (March 22, 2010)- DePuy orthopaedics Inc. , a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson has announced a recall on its ASR hip replacement systems on August 2010. The DePuy ASR systems were a metal-on-metal device that has been manufactured on July 2003. Since then, it has been implanted to almost 93,000 patients

The latest data from a registry of patients from the United Kingdom shows that approximately one out of two patients who had received DePuy hip replacement systems need a second surgery or what they call as a revision surgery which means that the old defective device will be removed from their body and a new device will be implanted.

The Food and Drug Administration stated that there are “unique risks” on a metal-on-metal hip implants because the friction caused by the gliding of a metal to another metal causes parts of the device to flake off. If this happens, metal ions will be suspended on the body system and this can cause serious damages to the tissues of the body.

Patients represented by hip recall lawyers have filed lawsuits against the manufacturing company demanding for compensation on physical damages, expense of revision surgery and other financial difficulties caused by the defective hip replacement device that was implanted on them.

In January 2011, the court has appointed the leadership team on prosecutor’s counsel for the organization and litigation. "The DePuy ASR implant is defective and has failed in many patients, as alleged in complaints, because of a design flaw," stated Wendy Fleishman one of the members of the plaintiff’s steering committee. "Too many patients implanted with the DePuy ASR have experienced loosening and failures of their implant, requiring revision surgeries."

Hip recall lawyers are advising those patients affected by this recall to seek legal counsel and know their rights and what could they do about the issue. Patients are also reminded to act as soon as possible because the law only allows a certain period of time to patients affected by a medical device recall to act.

For more info.:http://www.depuyhiprecallsite.com.

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