http://www.depuyhipreplacementlawsuit.com/ - Various lawsuits have been filed recently by law firms in Australia, UK and the US against DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. in behalf of clients who have undergone hip replacement surgeries.

1. As Published on the DePuy Hip Replacement Website

2. Various lawsuits have been filed recently by law
firms in Australia, UK and the US against DePuy
Orthopaedics, Inc. in behalf of clients who have
undergone hip replacement surgeries. Depuy,
which is a subsidiary company of Johnson and
Johnson, issued a global recall of their devices.
The British Medical Journal featured an article
about all-metal hips’ history is included a 2005
memo about the hip cancer risk being set aside by
Johnson & Johnson.

3. With approximately 93,000 recipients worldwide,
the ASR XL Acetabular System and the ASR Hip
Resurfacing System were recalled after data
revealed that the devices fail prematurely in one
out of eight people who have them. The
manufacturing and marketing of these two
devices started in 2003.

4. In December 2009, DePuy pulled the devices off of
the Australian market. The global recall of these
products were announced in August 2010. The
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been
receiving a number of complaints from DePuy
clients between 2008 and the time of its recall
announcement. Many of these clients need a
second hip replacement surgery.

5. The Director of the National Joint Replacement
Registry in Australia, Dr. Stephen Graves, says “It
is a complete untruth that DePuy did not have
reason to withdraw the ASR before now; we have
been telling them since 2007, but they allowed it
to be used on thousands of people.”

6. Johnson and Johnson have been charged with
numerous lawsuits by their clients, legal
specialists say. They were the ones victimized by
DePuy failures and defects like displacements,
fractures and loosening.

7. The symptoms of a defective hip implant are:
• Swelling
• Pain bearing weight
• Pain when rising from a seated position
• Pain while walking
• Pain on the thigh or groin area
• Pain on the hip area

8. It extreme cases, these hip devices may
completely fail, resulting in more severe health
complication. This occur when:
• the device is not attached to the bone
correctly;
• the unit is dislocated and misaligned;
• the bone around the implant is fractured.

9. In addition, malfunctioning hip devices may
create an accumulation of toxic metal into the
patient’s bloodstream. The body tissues may
possibly develop pseudotumors.

10. With lawsuits piling up worldwide, DePuy should
duly address the hip replacement problems
encountered by its clients. It should circulate a
wide range of information regarding
malfunctioning hip replacement symptoms so
that clients would be provided with due medical
attention. Although the earlier stated hip
replacement symptoms do not occur, one should
still see a health care expert. Hip replacement
problems should be dealt immediately so as to
prevent much adverse complications.