Allegedly, patient was removing items from his storage unit and felt a large pop in his hip and fell to the ground.He was taken to the emergency room due to pain and was diagnosed with femoral neck fracture.On or about (b)(6) 2021 due to the failure of the device, patient?s device was surgically removed in a surgical procedure commonly called a revision.During his revision surgery the dr noted the neck had fractured at the insertion of the neck into the stem.Due to the failure of his profemur total hip system, the dr needed to remove the well-fixed femoral stem which required used of an extended trochanteric osteotomy.This procedure required an induced femoral stem fracture so as to loosen the component from the bone in order to allow extraction.
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Due to additional information received from the microport orthopedics reliability engineer and analysis, the product listed in the initial report as 26000005 ceramic femoral head, lot no.: 01971800601, has been analysis, the product listed in the initial report as 26000005 ceramic femoral head, lot no: 01971800601; has had the pain code replaced with the code 'not complaint stated' as there is no complaint/deficiency against this device.Please void this report.
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