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As a medical device lawyer for more than 20 years, I have received so many calls from patients who are concerned that they have a recalled hip implant in their body. Often, their first notice of a potential problem with their hip replacement device is when they hear something on TV, often a lawyer advertisement,…
Over the past few years, various orthopedic surgeons around the country and their patients have been faced with a catastrophic failure of Stryker’s Accolade and V40 LFIT hip implants and incredible challenges for the patients. In June of 2014, orthopedic surgeons from New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts (Dr. Carl T. Talmo) and Hinsdale…
A total hip replacement (THR) is performed about 400,000 times a year in the U.S. An aging population will turn to a THR to correct inflammatory degenerative joint disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, to correct a deformity that affections function, to address osteoarthritis, or to fix painful hip dysplasia. Increasingly the THR is being performed…
Unfortunately, a growing number of American baby boomers are facing the need at some time in their life of a hip replacement. Whether due to osteoarthritis in the hip joint, rheumatoid arthritis, osteonecrosis or a death of the bone in joints, injury of a hip joint, or a bone tumor, upward of 500,000 hips are…
What doctors were most likely to be heavy users of the now recalled Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II hip implant systems? This list was compiled from disclosures Stryker made about money it has paid to orthopedic doctors around the country for services they categorize as “consulting” and “research.” This list can also be found on…
Surely patients implanted with Stryker’s Rejuvenate hip implant system can’t be suffering from metallosis failures. Right? Most of these devices are implanted with a ceramic ball and a plastic socket. It was designed and marketed to avoid all the problems associated with metal on metal devices where the ball and socket are both metal. There…
March 26, 2012, was apparently a very bad day for Stryker and its device, the Rejuvenate Modular Hip Implant system. According to redacted adverse event reports in the FDA MAUDE database, Stryker received reports from two different orthopedic surgeons on that single Spring day about significant harm suffered by patients implanted with the Rejuvenate Modular…
In April of 2012, Stryker Orthopaedics issued a letter entitled “URGENT: Field Safety Notice” which was directed to distributors, hospital risk managers, and surgeons with regard to the modular stems and necks that are utilized in the Rejuvenate Modular Hip Implant System. This safety alert is not an official recall of the device, although a…
More than 250,000 Americans receive hip implants every year and each hip implant can cost nearly $45,000. That is a potential $11 billion marketplace. That’s a large market for a medical device that has the potential to help many people regain mobility and decrease pain caused by osteoarthritis and joint failure. With the patient population…
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