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High Risk Broken Hip Implant Injury

This is unsettling: According to a recent study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, older women who break a hip are more likely to die within a year because of their broken hip. It's unsettling because broken hip is the cause of death not another health condition.

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And what's more unsettling is that women are at the highest risk of dying within the first three months after a hip fracture. Hospitalization, surgery, and immobility lead to complications resulting in death.

As part of a larger ongoing study involving nearly 10,000 women aged 65+, researchers followed 1,116 women who broke a hip and compared them to nearly 4,500 similar women who didn't break a hip.

The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that women between the ages of 65 and 69 who break a hip are five times more likely to die within a year than their peers who didn't suffer a fracture.

What is also unsettling is that more adverse side effects are showing up in the FDA database for Wright Medical Conserve hip implant cup. A medical device, the hip implant is inserted into the hip ball and socket. Metal on metal implants are supposed to last 15 to 20 years but replacement surgery is now being needed within 3 to 5 years.

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Product Identification Notice: In any of our web pages referring to Zimmer NexGen products, these pages are intended to provide information about and are referring to the same Zimmer products that were identified by Dr. Berger in his presentation and study entitled "The High Failure Rate of a High-Flex Total Knee Arthroplasty Design," and were written about in the NY Times article titled "Surgeon vs. Knee Maker: Who's Rejecting Whom?," and that are reported in the FDA MAUDE database, where reports involving the Zimmer NexGen CR Flex Cementless or Porous Femoral component can be found. Not all Zimmer NexGen products are involved in our investigations and lawsuits.