FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DeeDee Hill-Morgan noticed that her scrambled eggs at breakfast tasted like metal. She also battled bouts of nausea, dizziness and blurred vision. The problems started shortly after DeeDee, a client of Parker McDonald Law Firm, received her second DePuy ASR hip implant, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson. DeeDee, and potentially thousands of other DePuy hip replacement recall patients, suffers from metal poisoning from her hip implant. The defective DePuy ASR hip implant releases particles of the toxic heavy metals, cobalt and chromium, into the bloodstream.
Studies by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicate these cancer-causing metals may damage the heart, brain, and kidneys. The New York Times recently reported that, because of DePuy’s hip replacement failure, “many patients ... developed inexplicable pain, and surgeons, when replacing the implant, discovered mysterious masses of dead tissue near the thighs of some patients.”
DeeDee tells her story in this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCAye__7pBQ.
In the fall of 2010, DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson, recalled two of its hip replacement systems – the ASR XL Acetabular Hip Replacement System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System. This recall came after data from a study indicated that the five-year failure rate of these products is approximately 13 percent, or 1 in 8 patients. Symptoms include severe pain, implant loosening, implant dislocation, and toxic heavy metal poisoning.
Some patients have required a second surgery to replace the defective DePuy implant. Even if you are not experiencing problems at this time, the implants may eventually cause hip pain, difficulty walking, damage to the hip joint, and loss of bone cells. Thus, it may be necessary for you to have the system removed and replaced by another hip replacement system to avoid future problems.
If you or a loved one received a DePuy ASR hip implant, you may qualify for compensation for the costs of additional surgeries and related medical care, physical incapacity, disfigurement, pain, suffering, and mental anguish. You can contact the hip implant lawyers of Parker McDonald Law Firm at 855-HURT-HIP (855-487-8447) or online at http://hipimplantrecovery.com/.
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