Surgery to Revise Recalled DePuy Hip Replacement Proves Complex, Risky and Painful

Posted Wed, 03/16/2011 - 14:15

Studies show that revision surgeries, such as those employed to revise the recalled DePuy hip replacement, are complex, risky and painful. However daunting this surgery may seem, many who were negligently implanted with the defective DePuy hip replacement have no choice other than to submit to the procedure, due to the implant’s high failure rate.

Compared to original hip replacement surgeries, revision surgeries have been found to have much higher rates of infection and dislocation. A study conducted at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found the frequency of deep infection revision surgery recipients is 1.1%, while the risk amongst patients after an original hip replacement was only 0.2%. Even more patients of revision surgeries run the risk of dislocation, with 14.4% of patients’ revised implants dislocating, compared to the 3.9% of patients with instances of dislocation following an original hip replacement surgery.

These figures are especially disturbing considering the high rates of revision reported for recipients of the DePuy ASR hip implant, in the wake of the DePuy recall of this hip implant device. Experts have recently estimated the rates of revision surgeries for recipients of the implant at 29% after four years, up to an astonishing 49% after six years. This means that an almost one in every two recipients of the DePuy hip replacement will be met with the prospect of undergoing a risky hip replacement revision surgery, in order to correct the failure of their original prosthesis.

If you are one of those DePuy hip replacement recipients dreading an additional painful hip surgery, call our offices today at 1(888)444-2336 to learn more about your legal options for filing a claim against DePuy Orthopaedics. You could not have anticipated having another hip surgery so soon after the original. However, you can expect legal compensation for the damages caused as a result of the DePuy hip replacement recall.