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US Drug Watchdog Escalates Initiative to Help Victims of Premature
All-Metal Hip Implant Failure
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Drug Watchdog is
going to increase their national initiative focused on identifying
recipients of all-metal hip implants because the group is not just
worried about the costs associated with a all-metal hip implant
replacement, they are also extremely worried about what elevated
levels of cobalt, and chromium will do to a recipient long term. For
more information recipients of an all-metal hip implant can call the
US Drug Watchdog anytime at 866-714-6466, or they can contact the
group via their web site at http://USDrugWatchdog.Com.
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The US Drug Watchdog has dramatically increased their efforts to call
attention to the issues related all-metal hip implant failures for
potentially hundreds of thousands of US citizens, and the group
intends to increase this effort even more. One of the biggest problems
the group has encountered is the typical hip implant recipient they
talk to, whose surgery occurred between 2000, and 2010 knows their
device is an all-metal hip implant, they just don't know what type it
is, or who made it. Further complicating the problem is when the
recipient calls the orthopedic surgeon who did the surgery the doctor
does not return the calls of the hip implant recipient, or the
doctor's staff is uncooperative. http://USDrugWatchdog.Com
The US Drug Watchdog says, "We intend to radically change our efforts
to identify more recipients of a metal on metal hip implant, because
in our opinion only a fraction of recipients who have a failure, or
symptoms of a premature failure have been identified to the courts,
that are handling these various premature failure lawsuits. In
addition to making suggestions about how to test for a premature
failure, we will start including information related to deadlines, in
which a recipient must be identified to the appropriate court, if they
have any hope of being compensated by the medical device company that
produced their potentially defective metal on metal hip implant." For
more information recipients of a metal on metal hip implant are urged
to contact the US Drug Watchdog at 866-714-6466.
Updates on litigation involving metal on metal hip implants
manufactures that are being sued for premature failures from the US
Drug Watchdog:
* DePuy Pinnacle Case Number U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Texas MDL#2244. Legal sources are now telling the US Drug
Watchdog that in order to be compensated for a DePuy Pinnacle all
metal hip implant a failure must have occurred that required revision
surgery, or a medical doctor now must be recommending revision surgery
because the device has failed, or because of metallosis has been
diagnosed.
* Stryker Rejuvenate Modular & ABG II-recalled June 2012.
* Biomet M2a Magnum Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacement U.S. District Court
for the Northern District of California. (Case No. 3:12-cv-3476) filed
on July 2nd 2012. The US Drug Watchdog says, "For some recipients of
the Biomet M2A, and M2 Magnum there may be a looming statute
of limitations issue of April 15th 2014 to get identified by the court
if your hip implant has failed. Please call us for more
information."
* Wright Medical Technology, Inc., Conserve Hip Implant Products
Liability Litigation ("MDL No. 2329"). This is now pending in the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
The US Drug Watchdog says, "If you have a friend, or loved one who is
a recipient of a metal-on metal hip implant that has already failed,
or is showing symptoms of a failure, or if a recipient is concerned
about a premature failure, please call us anytime at 866-714-6466. We
want to make certain all metal hip implant recipients get meaningful
help, and assistance." http://USDrugWatchdog.com
For additional attribution purposes please refer to the January
2013 notification by the US Food and Drug Administration about all
metal hip implants:
Media Contact: M. Thomas Martin, 866-714-6466
Read more news from US Drug Watchdog.
SOURCE US Drug Watchdog
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