Hip Replacements

DePuy Hip Recall Lawsuit Filed By San Francisco Bay Area Patient

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, March 6th, 2011

2011 MAR 6 -- Wendy R. Fleishman, a partner in the national plaintiffs' law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, announces that Alec MacPhail, of Danville, California, has filed a personal injury lawsuit against DePuy Orthopedics, Inc., and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson, Inc., for manufacturing an allegedly defective prosthetic hip implant device sold under the brand name DePuy ASR XL Acetabular System.

"The DePuy ASR System has had extraordinarily high rates of loosening, failure, and dangerous metal debris release, which caused patients to develop complications necessitating removal of the ASR devices in revision surgeries," stated...

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Source: Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week (2011-03-06)

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