Metal on Metal Hip Implants Including Metal Depuy Hip Implants Are Coming Apart and Dislocating in People Causing the Need for Metal Hip Implant Replacement Surgery and Metal Hip Implant Revision Surgery by Texas Metal Failed Hip Implant Lawyer, Texas Hip Revision Surgery Lawyer, and Texas Failed Metal Hip Implant Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Metal hip implant patients including people with DePuy ASR and DePuy ASR XL metal-on-metal hip implants have experienced release of metal debris from the metal hip implant as well as loosening and dislocation of the metal hip implant. These metal on metal hip implant issues often require hip implant patients to require metal hip implant revision surgery or metal hip implant replacement surgery. These hip replacement surgeries can often be more difficult to than the original hip replacement surgery and result in severe pain and disability.
Defective
Hip Implant Devices Lead to Suffering Pain, Impairment, and Mental Anguish as well
as having to have Hip Revision Surgery to Repair the
Problem
Hip revision surgery is one of the most serious and
prolonged injuries resulting from DePuy defective hip
replacement systems and other metal on metal hip implants. Metal hip revision surgery is the need for surgical extraction of a
faulty metal on metal hip implant such as a DePuy ASR Hip Implant Device or DePuy ASR XL and replacement with another
defect-free Hip Replacement System of proper design by other
orthopedic device manufacturer. The metal on metal hip replacement by its very
nature of necessity is often surgically performed in middle-aged
and elderly population. And recovery from the second hip
replacement is often more difficult than after the first. A
second surgery of this nature could and often does increase the
risk of complications, severe infections, prolonged recovery
time, and death. In some patients the infection resulting from
defective ASR system, is so advanced and systemic that a
revision surgery is not possible. In this group of patients the
only option is a surgical extraction of defected device without
any corrective hip replacement to restore the lost mobility
function patients experienced in first place.
After a person has gone through an extensive
hip surgery including the lengthy recovery and process, it can
be very upsetting to learn that the manufacturer incorrectly
made the implant so that it will have to removed and the person
will have to undergo the hip replacement surgery again requiring
more recovery, missed time from work, and missed time from
family and normal functioning.
Regardless, as
to whether the failed hip replacement surgery is caused
by a defective Zimmer Cup, defective Trident Hemispherical Cup,
defective Trident PSL Cup, defective DePuy Orthopaedics
Inc. ASR Hip Resurfacing System, defective DePuy ASR XL
Acetabular System, and/or medical
negligence, it is important to understand the cause of a failed
hip replacement surgery.
Hip Revision Surgery and Hip Replacement
Surgery including Total Joint Hip Revision Surgery, Total Hip Replacement Surgery, Total Hip
Arthroplasty, and other Hip Surgery
Hip replacement surgery, also called
total hip arthroplasty, involves removing a diseased or
broken hip joint and replacing it with an artificial joint,
called a prosthesis. Hip prostheses commonly consist of a
ball component, made of metal or ceramic, and a socket,
which has an insert or liner made of plastic, ceramic or
metal. The implants used in hip replacement are or should be
biocompatible (meaning they're designed to be accepted by
your body) and made to resist corrosion, degradation and
wear.
Hip replacement surgery is typically used
for people with hip joint damage from arthritis or a serious
injury. Followed by rehabilitation, hip replacement
surgery can relieve pain and restore range of motion and
function of the hip joint. However, it should be
understood that Hip Replacement Surgery is an invasive and
serious medical procedure that can be extremely hard on a
person and will require significant time to recover.
It is important that a person seeking a hip replacement
consult with one or more medical doctors that they trust to
determine if they are healthy enough to undergo hip
replacement surgery.
As a total hip joint replacement replaces
the ends of both bones in a damaged hip joint to create new
joint surfaces and a total hip replacement surgery replaces
the upper end of the thighbone (femur) with a metal ball and
resurfaces the hip socket in the pelvic bone with a metal
shell and plastic liner, it is essential that the hip
implants are biocompatible and are correctly made to resist
corrosion, degradation, and wear as well as to work well
without rubbing.
After a person has gone through an
extensive hip surgery including the lengthy recovery and
process, it can be very upsetting to learn that the
manufacturer incorrectly made the implant so that it will
have to removed and the person will have to undergo the hip
replacement surgery again requiring more recovery, missed
time from work, and missed time from family and normal
functioning.
Metal Hip Revision Surgery Lawsuits,
DePuy Defective Hip Implant Lawsuits,
Implantable Hip Failure Lawsuits, and Failed Hip
Surgery Resulting in Permanent Disability and Paralysis
Lawsuits
by Texas Failed Metal Hip Implant Lawyer, Jason Coomer
Failed
metal hip implants can cause severe pain, catastrophic injuries,
physical impairment, and the need for additional hip
replacement surgery. There are several defective metal hip implants that can come apart or dislocate including
Zimmer Cups, Trident Hemispherical Cups, Trident PSL Cups, DePuy
ASR Hip Resurfacing Systems, and
Depuy ASR XL Acetabular Systems.
