DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant Complaints Mount (NewsInferno)
The FDA has been receiving a growing number of Adverse Event Reports (AERS) involving the all-metal version of DePuy Orthopaedics’ Pinnacle Hip Implant. According to a recent review of its AERS database, 709 Pinnacle Hip Implant AERs were reported in the last three months (July-September.) Of these, 201 relate to Pinnacle Hip Implants with a metal-on-metal liner.
This brings the total number of Pinnacle Hip Implant AERs made to the FDA this year to 1,266 (450 confirmed metal). If this trend continues, DePuy is on track to have over 1,700 Pinnacle AERs (with more than 600 confirmed metal).
In comparison, in all of 2010, the DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant was named in 557 Pinnacle AERs (271 confirmed metal). In 2009, just 315 (135 confirmed metal) AERs were made involving the Pinnacle Hip Implant.
To put this in perspective, another DePuy artificial hip, the ASR hip implant, had been the subject of 1,195 AERs by August 2010, when it was recalled because of an unexpectedly high early failure rate.
DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implants with polyurethane and ceramic liners have not been named in nearly as many ASRs. Only ...
