Symptoms Of Hip Joint Damage May Lead To Hip Implants
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received a surge of complaints in more than 5,000 reports against defective artificial hips since January 2011. According to an enquiry of national documents by the New York Times website, unsuccessful hip replacements were being widely used such as the metal-on-metal hips. The metal-on-metal hips which were used hip replacement have received several negative feedback according to an analysis based on national data by the New York Times website.
It was four times as many as the total in the last four years combined, a report from FDA says. What shocked the Australian senate was the 'intolerable and unacceptable' anguish of hundreds of patients who has undergone implant surgery of metal-on-metal hip implants manufactured by DePuy as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.
According to FDA, those patients who received 'metal-on-metal' hip implant that had the 'ball and socket' of the device both made from metal claimed that what led them to hip implants is when their hip joint deteriorated, and that they started feeling the symptoms such as pain, stiffness or difficulty in walking.
Although, physical therapy, exercise and medication are some ways to treat hip pains. But when a patient's symptoms do not respond to these more conservative treatments, an orthopaedist may recommend traditional hip replacement surgery or total hip resurfacing, the FDA website says.
Those patients who filed complaints before the FDA are the once hit by the synthetic hip implants recall, others were asked for a revision surgery because the synthetic hip implant failed after only a few years. Typically, a replacement hip may last 15 years or more.
The mounting complaints confirmed what many experts have feared - that all-metal replacement hips are on a trajectory to become the biggest and most costly medical implant problem since Medtronic recalled a widely used heart device component in 2007. According to the New York Times about 7,700 complaints have been filed linking with the recall.
Although the website says that the immediate problems with the hip implants are not life-threatening, some patients have suffered crippling injuries caused by tiny particles of cobalt and chromium that the metal devices shed as they wear.
In the United States, one of the most common operations is hip replacement.
Although, the FDA states that several all-metal devices were sold without being tested among patients. Most of the implant owners skipped the requirements in which manufacturers have a hard time tracking their products results. Failure with the design may have tapped the non-stop surge in the number of protests leading to court case such as the DePuy Pinnacle lawsuit.