Defective DePuy Hip Implants can cause a variety of serious, severe and permanent health problems.

Hip Pain

Hip Pain is the most common symptom of patients with a recalled DePuy Hip Implant often experience severe ongoing pain in the hip and leg region near the hip implant.

Hip Swelling

Patients with the recalled DePuy Hip Implants often experience swelling in the hip area surrounding the implant.

Hip Dislocation

Patients with a defective DePuy Hip Implant may experience frequent dislocation of the effected hip joint. Due to the design of the DePuy Hip Implant, the metal ball of the hip implant is prone to falling out of the socket.

Hip Loosening

The DePuy Hip Implant is designed in a manner that makes the hip implant prone to loosening. Patients often describe this as feeling as though the entire hip implant could come out of the bone at any time.

Hip Weakness

Patients with an ASR DePuy Hip Implant may experience weakness of the implanted hip joint.

Bone Fracture

The ASR DePuy Hip Implant devices can result in a weaking and eventual fracture of the bones surrounding the artificial hip implant device.

Metallosis

In all metal-on-metal hip implants, friction between the metal ball and the metal socket results in the release of tiny metal particles into the bloodstream. These microscopic metal particles, referred to as ions, can result in abnormally high levels of certain metal levels in the bloodstream, especially Chromium and Cadmium. The design of the recalled DePuy Hip Implants can result in the release of unsafe levels of metal into the bloodstream. Chromium and Cadmium, at high levels, can be toxic. The metals can destroy the tissues of the body. These toxic metals have the compounded effect of killing pain receptors, which means the patient with abnormally high levels of toxic metal ions in their body may not even know that the metals are eating away at their muscles, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels or bones.

Pseudotumor

Metallosis, the release of high levels of metal ions into the bloodstream, can result in the the formation of soft-tissue, tumor-like masses in the body.

ALVAL

ALVAL or Aseptic Lymphocyte Dominated Vasculitis Associated Lesion is an adverse reaction to the metallosis or metal ions.

Hip Implant Failure

Studies have shown that the DePuy ASR Hip Implant devices are susceptible to early failure. The typical metal-on-metal hip implant device has a lifespan of approximately 15 years before revision surgery becomes necessary. The DePuy ASR Hip Implant devices are failing at a much higher rate, requiring hip revision surgery earlier than expected. Only 3% of most metal-on-metal hip implant devices fail within the first 5 years. Unfortunately, 13% of patients with the DePuy ASR Hip Implant devices need revision surgery within the first 5 years.

Hip Revision Surgery

Many patients with the DePuy ASR Hip Implant device will be forced to undergo a painful and stressful second surgery to remove the recalled DePuy ASR Hip Implant and implant a second, safe hip implant device.