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Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding member and senior partner
The Boston Business Journal (7/10, Donnelly, Subscription Publication) reported, “Stryker Orthopaedics has voluntarily recalled two brands of devices used in conjunction with artificial hips in hip replacement surgeries, according to the US Food and Drug Administration website.” To date, “there have been at least 45 adverse event reports from patients who say the devices caused pain and/or tissue swelling.” This week, Stryker said that “it would remove Rejuvenate and ABG II modular-neck stems, which attach to artificial hips, from the market and cease global distribution.”
The modular neck-stem devices were recalled “because of postmarketing data showing fretting and corrosion at the modular neck junction, according to an alert from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA),” Medscape (7/11, Hitt) reports. “The FDA posted the company’s press release, dated July 6.” Stryker “states that patients who already have the implanted modular-neck stems should contact their surgeon only if they experience pain and/or swelling of the hip and should undergo revision surgery only if symptoms of pain and swelling at the local joint site are not attributable to other conditions such as aseptic loosening and periprosthetic sepsis.”
If you have had a hip replacement, or if you are thinking of getting one, please speak with your doctor about product safety. I have many clients who have been victims of faulty hip replacements, and they are left with a lifetime of pain and suffering.
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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. The association has recently named him the ” 2011 Trial Lawyer of the Year“. He has also been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri was recently (2012 edition) acknowledged as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” by Best Lawyers, and has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2012)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in the country.
Mr. Zambri is regularly asked to present seminars to lawyers and doctors, as well as both medical and law students concerning defective drugs, medication errors, medical malpractice litigation, and safety improvements.
If you have any questions about your legal rights, please email Mr. Zambri at [email protected]. You may also reach him at 202-822-1899.
