Sentences with phrase «hip system devices»

The settlement agreement proposes to resolve 8,000 claims filed by patients who received Johnson & Johnson's defective DePuy Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) Hip System devices.

Not exact matches

A California jury ruled on March 8, 2013 that DePuy Orthopaedics knowingly produced and marketed a defective hip replacement device known as the DePuy ASR ™ Hip Resurfacing Systhip replacement device known as the DePuy ASR ™ Hip Resurfacing SystHip Resurfacing System.

While these two hip implant systems are not considered metal - on - metal hip devices (although they do have a metal - on - metal junction because their necks are made of cobalt and chromium and the stems are coated in titanium), they do pose similar complications.

For others, however, hip replacement devices result in pain, additional surgeries and diffusion of metal ions in the bloodstream, causing a variety of problems in the heart, nervous system and thyroid gland.

One of these devices, the Stryker Rejuvenate hip replacement system, is causing many patients post-implant complications.

While hip replacement devices are generally associated with older people, the Stryker Rejuvenate system was marketed with younger patients in mind.

Such medical devices include Wright Medical Technology's Conserve Hip Implant System, Stryker Orthopedic's Rejuvenate, ABG II, and Accolade models, and DePuy's ASR models.

Defective medical devices have caused major problems: DePuy's ASR Acetublar hip replacement system was not recalled until almost two years after issues arose.