There is definitely no doubt about it. DePuy Orthopaedics should issued a recall the moment they knew that their implants were defective. In fact, they should have never released their ASR implants to the market, because they never underwent clinical testing procedures set forth by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. It was eventually found out that the ASR XL Acetabular System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System both had a failure rate of 12-13%. It can also affect 1 in eve...
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