US Drug Watchdog Calls Its Identification of All ASR DePuy Hip Implant Recipients Its Most important

The US Drug Watchdog is calling its initiative to identify all recipients of the recalled DePuy ASR hip implant, its most important recalled medical device initiative of 2012. The group says, "ASR DePuy hip implants are failing, or have failed at an unacceptably high rate. As a result there was a recall on this hip implant device in August of 2010 by the US FDA. DePuy ASR hip implants were surgically implanted on tens of thousands of US citizens between 2005 and early 2010." According to the US FDA, symptoms of a recalled ASR DePuy hip implant failure include pain in the hip region
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