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DePuy ASR Hip Replacements
Posted by: Stephen Leshner
June 24, 2010
Topic: PRODUCT LIABILITY
In March of this year, the New York Times published an article about the high early failure rate of DePuy's ASR hip replacement. Since that article was published, many more reports of failures of ASR hip replacements have been received by both DePuy and the United States Food and Drug Administration. In its article, the New York Times quoted orthopedic experts critical of the design of the ASR hip replacement. Experts were also critical of DePuy's failure to stop sales of the device sooner.
The evidence suggests that that the DePuy ASR hip replacement was defectively designed, and that DePuy knew that their ASR hip replacements were failing at a higher than expected rate, yet did not pass that information on to consumers or orthopaedic surgeons. As a result, a diagnosis that the ASR hip replacement implanted in patients failed were needlessly delayed as their physicians were unaware of the prevelance of other failures. During patients' surgeries to replace failed hip replacements, orthopedic surgeons discovered that the cup portion of the ASR hip replacement were extremely loose. The ASR hip replacement was designed so that a patient's bone grows into the back of the cup to secure it. However, loosening because of a lack of bone in-growth into the cup is the critical aspect of DePuy ASR hip replacement failures.
If you or someone you know suffered from a DePuy ASR hip replacement failure, please call Steve Leshner for a free case review and consultation. Several years ago, Steve Leshner successfully handled over 50 Sulzer Orthpaedic hip failure cases which were also caused by a manufacturing defect that prevented adequate lack of bone-ing growth, and the consequent loosening of the cup.
