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Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Lawsuits
Posted by Shezad Malik MD JD
May 5, 2017 10:40
Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Lawsuits.
Rosetta Ventimiglia from Michigan recently filed a product liability and personal injury claim against Smith & Nephew.Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Lawsuits and hip implant failure. Smith and Nephew under fire over its Birmingham line of metal hip devices causing metal poisoning and premature failure according to lawsuits.According to Ventimiglia, the premature failure of the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) metal hip device lead her to develop severe metal blood poisoning. Ventimiglia had to undergo painful and risky revision surgery less than three years after the metal hip was implanted.
Ventimiglia succumbed to metallosis from the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing implant after metal fragments were released during the normal grinding action between the cup and metal head.
According to her lawsuit, Ventimiglia was implanted with a Smith & Nephew Birmingham implant in 2014, as part of a right hip resurfacing procedure. She complained about severe hip pain, reduced motion, as well as “clunking” and “locking” sensations in her right hip shortly after the hip implant surgery.
Upon further investigation by her doctors, she was found to have increased levels of cobalt and chromium in her blood and tissue destruction around the hip implant. She was diagnosed with premature failure of Birmingham hip implant and she had to undergo surgery to remove the implant.
Source and full article: Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Lawsuits | Dallas-Fort Worth Legal Examiner | Dallas-Fort Worth Texas Personal Injury Lawyer
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Best of luck with the claim. I wish there was someone in the UK that would take on my claim, but no one will touch S&N. Why ?
My first op was in 2009, and now i am in horrific daily pain and live on the maximum daily dose of Tapentadol just to live day to day.
You’re right P. My first op was 2007 . . . the damage done from systemic cobalt poisoning sometimes doesn’t show up for 10 years . . . way past the statute of limitations. From what I’ve read, surgeons are to immediately bag up the failed implement upon removal, and send it BACK to Smith & Nephew to judge for themselves with “MAUD” reports, laughingly called FRAUD reports. They slipped off with my only evidence of 2 failed S&Ns. And many of the orthos take money from the hip makers.
As to your pain, consider strongly getting an MRI which can see pseudotumors. These develop as the metal implements grind against each other, creating tiny pieces of cobalt or chromium or nickel. Sometimes they are highly pressurized as was mine. NOW is the time to get a full toxic metal workup: the 24 hr. pee way and an injection to get blood serum. Your pain could mean that the toxic metals are running through your entire blood stream as if it was arsenic. You need a revision immediately. The do the heavy metal tests again . . . they will have come down to “acceptable” levels.
Also, P., join Earl’s facebook page: Total Hip Replacement News . . . invaluable cameraderie
Hi all. Yes i have been following Earl for many years now. I am now currently under the care of Guys Hospital in London and have had many recent MRI’s of my hips, thighs, and my back. And more recently a full head scan.. My pain now post BHR removal seems to be from Nerve Damage. Caused by 6 hip operations on the 1 hip.
My hip has also gone back to S&N late last summer. It was being held by my hospital, but S&N asked for it back to look into why it failed. I am still the owner of that hip joint, and can recall it if i want.
What years’ ya talkin’ about, tough P.? 6 hip operations on one hip. We are so easily led by the noses of the whole conspiratorial system.
My hip operations started in 2004. There are massive threads on here back in Earls archives. 3 Arthroscopes, 1x Microfracture, 1x BHR in 2009, and then 1x THR (Nylon/Ceramic) in Feb 2012. Thats just the left hip. The right hip has had 2x arthroscopes and is OK so far.
But after all the work on my left hip i am left in agony. Even though the THR is mechanically OK and i no longer have cobalt poisoning. But the damage is already done.
Hey, poor baby, P. May your suffering be lifted . . . or some such miracle as that
More info on my story here
https://earlsview.com/2011/12/29/pauls-story-agony/
There are other threads earlier than that one, but i cannot find them.