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Hips: Smith & Nephew issues failure warning on Birmingham metal-on-metal hips
September 25, 2012 by Arezu Sarvestani
The metal-on-metal hip implant failure controversy finally claims Smith & Nephew, maker of the first MoM hip to hit the market.
Smith & Nephew (FTSE:SN, NYSE:SNN) issued an “Urgent Field Safety Notice” for its Birmingham Hip Modular Head implants, part of the suite of devices that pioneered the metal-on-metal hip field when they 1st hit the market in 1997.
The orthopedic giant warned the Hong Kong department of health that new data on the implants, gathered since 2010, suggests a 1.29% failure rate based on the National Joint Registry of England and Wales and a 1.12% failure rate based on the Australian Orthopaedic Association’s National Joint Replacement Registry.
On their own the rates…
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Earl comes through again! Thanks, guy . . . I retweeted and facebooked and linkedin all I could with this plea:
“What about us thousands of victims of S&N Resurfacings who have had bilateral revisionary surgery within 3 to 4 years of the S&N insertion. For me, it was 4 hip operations from 2007 to 2008, and I’m still bedded down in the fall of 2014 from the bodily-traumatic side effects! And statute of limitations is long since gone. What about us?”
Whoops, mistake . . . 4 hip ops from 2007 to 2011