As many as 93,000 people worldwide may be affected by the recent recall of two hip replacement implants. Are you one of them?.

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What You Need to Know About Faulty Hip Implant Parts

The recalled devices are made by a division of Johnson & Johnson called DePuy Orthopaedics. The implants are known as the ASR™ XL Acetabular System and the DePuy ASR™. Both devices have failed at a higher than expected rate, causing medical complications and forcing patients to undergo additional surgeries.

The ASR XL Acetabular System was used for total hip replacements, and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System was used in a newer kind of bone-resurfacing procedure. The bone-resurfacing procedure has not been approved in the U.S., but many American patients have traveled outside the country to get it, and others received it in this country in a clinical trial, a DuPuy spokesman told Arthritis Today, a publication of the Arthritis Foundation.

Johnson & Johnson voluntarily recalled the two hip implant devices in August of this year. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration began receiving complaints about hip implant failures in early 2008, according to the New York Times.

A British joint replacement registry showed about one in eight -- or around 12 percent -- of those who received the implants needed corrective procedures, called revision surgeries, within five years, according to Arthritis Today.

That failure rate for the recalled hip devices is about twice the industry average, Kevin J. Bozic, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and vice chairman of orthopedics at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, told Arthritis Today.

The New York Times reported that DePuy had sold about 93,000 of the devices before phasing out production last year.

Pain, Infection, Tissue Damage, Difficulty Walking

Patients with the recalled ASR hip replacement parts have experienced pain, difficulty walking, infection and damage to surrounding soft tissue.

If you have experienced problems after a hip replacement surgery that used the ASR™ XL Acetabular System or DePuy ASR™, you have legal options available to you.

Thousands of patients who have suffered undue pain and additional surgery because of DePuy's faulty products and the firm's negligence in putting the products on the market may be entitled to monetary relief.

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If you or a loved one has had problems after surgery involving the ASR™ XL Acetabular System or DePuy ASR™, contact us online today or call 1-888-4-MEDLAW for a FREE EVALUATION.