DePuy ASR Recall - Blog Entries
DePUY ASR HIP REPLACEMENT RECALL – IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AFFECTED PATIENTS
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
On the 26th August 2010 DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. – a division of Johnson & Johnson – announced a worldwide recall of both its ASR XL acetabular total hip replacement system and its DePuy ASR hip resurfacing system. The recall was prompted by recently published data showing that the five-year revision rate was [...]
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The DePuy ASR was the first metal-on-metal prosthesis to be recalled. Which other devices will follow?
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND RELATED BLOG ENTRIES VISIT OUR DEDICATED DePUY HIP IMPLANT RECALL PAGE In the wake of the DePuy ASR recall which was issued in August 2010, concerns are mounting regarding the safety of metal-on-metal prosthetic hip devices in general. As the US Food and Drug Administration has stated on [...]
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Revision surgery required for CUH hip surgery patients who received a combination of prosthetic components
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
The HSE has recalled 247 individuals who underwent hemiarthroplasties at Cork University Hospital in the period between 2005 and 2008. 10 patients have already undergone repair surgery and six more have been scheduled to be operated on in the new year. Other patients are being kept under ongoing review to determine whether [...]
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DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DePUY ASR HIP RECALL IN IRELAND
Sunday, February 20th, 2011
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND RELATED BLOG ENTRIES VISIT OUR DEDICATED DePUY HIP IMPLANT RECALL PAGE Many of our clients who have been affected by the worldwide DePuy ASR hip recall which was announced in August of last year have by now received the results of their blood tests to identify the levels [...]
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DePUY ASR HIP IMPLANT RECALL – WHAT LEVELS OF COBALT AND CHROMIUM ARE SAFE?
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND RELATED BLOG ENTRIES VISIT OUR DEDICATED DePUY HIP IMPLANT RECALL PAGE The Health Service Executive (HSE) last week stated that 2,022 of the approximately 3,500 patients affected by the recall of DePuy ASR hip implants have at this stage attended for their initial recall appointment, with the remainder [...]
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THE POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES OF METAL TOXICITY FOR DePUY ASR HIP IMPLANT PATIENTS
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND RELATED BLOG ENTRIES VISIT OUR DEDICATED DePUY HIP IMPLANT RECALL PAGE At this stage we have been instructed by numerous DePuy ASR hip implant patients throughout the country whose circumstances vary dramatically, spanning the entire range from those who have had a device implanted for some time and [...]
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DePUY ASR HIP IMPLANT RECALL – THE POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES OF METAL TOXICITY
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND RELATED BLOG ENTRIES VISIT OUR DEDICATED DePUY HIP IMPLANT RECALL PAGE At this stage we have been instructed by numerous DePuy ASR hip implant patients throughout the country whose circumstances vary dramatically, spanning the entire range from those who have had a device implanted for some time and [...]
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DePUY ASR HIP IMPLANT RECALL – WHAT DID DePUY KNOW, AND WHEN?
Friday, October 1st, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND RELATED BLOG ENTRIES VISIT OUR DEDICATED DePUY HIP IMPLANT RECALL PAGE In the period between July of 2003 and the announcement by DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. on the 26th of August last of a worldwide recall of its ASR XL Acetabular System and ASR Hip Resurfacing System, 93,000 of [...]
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DePUY ORTHOPAEDICS ASR HIP REPLACEMENT RECALL – WHAT FORM SHOULD FOLLOW-UP TREATMENT TAKE?
Friday, September 24th, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND RELATED BLOG ENTRIES VISIT OUR DEDICATED DePUY HIP IMPLANT RECALL PAGE The fallout from the DePuy Orthopaedics worldwide recall of the ASR XL Acetabular System and the DePuy ASR Hip Resurfacing System is still unclear for many of the over 3,500 Irish patients who have received either of [...]
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DePUY HIP IMPLANT RECALL – INTERNATIONAL LITIGATION UPDATE
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND RELATED BLOG ENTRIES VISIT OUR DEDICATED DePUY HIP IMPLANT RECALL PAGE An artificial hip recall was issued last month after DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. – which is a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson – acknowledged that its metal-on-metal hip replacement systems have an unacceptably high failure [...]
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