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Reading PA Law Firm Investigating Claims Involving Zimmer NexGen CR Flex Cementless Porous Femoral Component Knee Replacements.
Do you have a Zimmer Knee Replacement? Have you had problems requiring revisions surgery since 2005? Did you have a Zimmer NexGen knee replacement using minimally invasive surgery and now are having problems?
According to the FDA’s adverse events database for medical device problems, you would not be alone and the Zimmer knee replacement malfunctions continue to be recorded at an accelerated rate.
Some early studies of minimally invasive knee replacement surgery showed benefits compared with traditional knee replacement. Benefits include less blood loss, shorter hospital stay, and they seemed to offer a better range of motion. While other studies show a higher rate of complications including poorer positioning of knee implants and no benefits in range of motion for the average person.
Random minimal invasive surgery knee implant problems catalogued in the FDA’s database include reports of the following:
- Surgeon who has 5 patients whose tibial trays have loosened within a month after total knee arthroplasty.
- Device was that implanted in 2006, and was explanted in 2008 due to the tibial becoming loose.
- Device was implanted in 2007 and was explanted in 2008, due to the tibia being internally rotated.
A Zimmer recall occurred after the medical device used during the surgery was on occasion found to break during surgery leaving fragments of metal in the knees of patients. Zimmer clarified the recall by citing that the minimally invasive surgery (MIS) instrument was what was recalled not the knee implant itself.
A certain Zimmer knee replacement implant, NexGen, appears to have loosening problems described in the FDA MAUDE database and some doctors believe it should no longer be used. Whether it is defective will be determined in the future. People just like you in Reading, Pa. as well as all over Pennsylvania are suffering from painful side effects from the knee surgery and this may be caused by Zimmer product negligence. Zimmer has claimed that the problems are with doctor error, but our investigation is leading us to believe that it is the device.
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