stryker hip replacement implant recall
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Stryker Hip Replacement Implant Recall In July 2012, Stryker issued a recall of its Rejuvenate and ABGII hip replacement systems. The implant has been found to be prone to corrosion, joint dislocation, and the release of metal ions which can cause metallosis, tissue inflammation and necrosis. More than 30,000 of the Stryker hip systems have been installed worldwide, 20,000 of them in U.S. patients. The failure of the implant has so far led to over 100 lawsuits being filed against Stryker in Bergen, N.j., where the company’s headquarters are located. The Stryker Rejuvenate and ABGII hip prosthesis recall are part one of the more serious medical device failures in recent history. Most of the current hip recalls and failures such as the DePuy ASR are metal on metal hips. The Stryker Rejuvenate does not have a metal interface between the ball and the cup. The Rejuvenate causes an injury similar to the metal on metal hips but the metal debris is caused by micro motion of the metal joints that connect the stem in the femur to the ball in the hip system. The DePuy A.S.R. was the first to be recalled in 2010. Since then the Smith & Nephew R3 and the Zimmer Durom Cup have also been recalled. Metal-on-metal joints still on the market such as the Biomet Magnum, the Encore and the Wright Profemur Converse, Dynasty and Lineage are also failing at unacceptably high rate. Find out more today at http://www.saunderslawyers.com/
