How the ASR XL Acetabular System Causes Metallosis
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| About Us| FAQs | Testimonials| Cases & Settlements| Partner Login| Contact Us 800.730.7607 Houston 713.839.9026 Over 130,000 clients can’t be wrong Home Product Defects DePuy Hip Recall Accident & Injury law Criminal Defense Traffic Ticket Defense Family Law How the ASR XL Acetabular System Causes Metallosis By Taylor Lindstrom Johnson & Johnson has announced that its subsidiary company Depuy issued a voluntarily recall of their ASR hip implant due to a number of patients who required a second hip replacement procedure, called a revision surgery. No mention was made of metallosis in the Johnson & Johnson press release. In fact, Johnson & Johnson didn’t mention any of the more significant symptoms patients are suffering after receiving a DePuy ASR XL hip implant. They would prefer that the public believed the revision surgery process is simple and fixes the problem of a faulty hip implant with absolutely no long-term effects. We’re recommending you get a second opinion – and a blood test. Metal-on-metal hip replacement bearings like the DuPuy ASR XL Acetabular System total hip replacement were originally reintroduced as an alternative to metal-on-plastic or ceramic hip replacement systems. Metal-on-metal implants (for a hip implant, this is a design that involves both a metal ball and a metal socket) have certain advantages over plastic or ceramic when the design is properly engineered. They last longer, have high resistance to wear | |