B. Braun halts certain Aesculap knee implants (MassDevice)
B. Braun’s Aesculap Univation X knee system
B. Braun is notifying customers who purchased certain Aesculap knee systems to temporarily cease implanting them while the company addresses a “possible malfunction.”
In a Nov. 16 letter sent to customers worldwide, the company said a “locally accumulated number of aseptic loosenings have been reported to us in connection with the univation X system. ln the affected patients, the loosened knee endoprostheses had to be revised or will be revised.”
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