Zimmer Hip Implant Recall Announced

On July 24, 2008, Zimmer Holdings, the nation's largest producer of orthopedic devices, suspended all U.S. sales of an artificial hip implant component, known as the "Durom cup," due to a high failure rate. In April 2008, Dr. Lawrence Dorr, an orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles, California, publicly warned other orthopedists about the high number of cup failures his patients were experiencing pain in the hips Such pains may be associated with a broken or loose hip implant. Patients should talk to their doctors and be checked out in case of any unusual apins they are having after a Zimmer hip implant surgery. For more information, see Zimmer Hip Implant Recall.