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A “significant” number of hip replacements surgi...ted into British patients were the wrong size, a scientific study has found.


Research carried out by orthopaedic surgeons and engineers discovered that over a third of the devices analysed fell out of the size limits set by the company making them,http://users.atw.hu/team-axone/index.php?site=forum_topic&topic=14030cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg, with devices implanted after 2006 most affected.


The paper, published in the British Medical Journal Open,http://users.atw.hu/phake-mgaming/index.php?site=forum_topic&topic=15254cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg, describes how many of the Pinnacle metal-on-metal components made by Depuy were “found to be manufactured out of their specifications”.


The authors of the study concluded that production issues “may play a significant role” in hip replacements failing in patients and that devices implanted into women had a higher failure rate.


The disclosure will add to concerns about the safety of implants and will be likely to increase pressure on the regulators who oversee the industry,cheap jordans online.


According to the authors, the Pinnacle is the most commonly used metal-on-metal implant in the world and


has been used for more than 180,cheap air jordans,000 people.


In January, The Daily Telegraph revealed how hip implants that have left thousands of British people in pain were manufactured incorrectly at a factory in Yorkshire,cheap jordan shoes.



“The paper was “inconsistent with the results of many peer-reviewed studies that were conducted with more scientific rigor and transparency”
Depuy spokesman





Depuy said there were no safety issues, but refused to answer detailed questions about what action they took to address concerns raised.


However, the study in BMJ Open suggests manufacturing problems could have affected patient health by leading to device failure.


The study looked at 489 metal-on-metal Pinnacle hips implanted into 434 patients. Of these, 352 patients attended recall clinics and 71 hip replacements were revised. The patients were from one hospital trust in northern England.




The study examined patients with 36mm replacements implanted by two of the report’s authors. The devices were examined by one of the authors at Newcastle University and North Tees Implant Centre.


The purpose of the paper was to determine the “risk factors” for revision. Four of the authors declared that they worked as experts for people suing companies producing metal-on-metal implants, with two saying they have worked alongside America authorities against Depuy.


After examining the 71 hip implants that formed part of the study, the authors state that “a significant number of devices were found to be manufactured out of their specifications”.


They say that this was confirmed by work carried out at the Northern Retrieval Registry – an organisation that examines devices that have been removed from patients after they have failed.


A spokesman for Depuy said that the paper was “inconsistent with the results of many peer-reviewed studies that were conducted with more scientific rigor and transparency”, that components sold were within specification, and that there were "no manufacturing problems with ULTAMET" as the paper suggests.


The company said they questioned the "validity of the...paper given significant flaws with how it was conducted, the limited data reported, and the clear conflicts of interest of some of its authors".





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