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Additional info received from sales representative on the (b)(6) 2018: surgeons comments were that: the patient was suffering from impingement and that as the patient flexed her hip, she was hinging off the edge of the cup.He believed this may have contributed to the cup loosening preliminary investigation performed by r&d product manager on (b)(6) 2018 cup loosening due to impingement.From preliminary visual inspection is not possible to determine failure root cause.However, range of motion clinical safety is guaranteed within the use and coupling of medacta's products.Batch review performed on 01 october 2018 lot 160464: (b)(4) items manufactured and released on 22 june 2016.Expiration date: 2021-06-12 no anomalies found related to the problem.To date, (b)(4) items of the same lot have been already sold without any similar reported event.Visual inspection performed by r&d product manager on (b)(6) 2018: during the visual inspection, large areas of fibrotic tissue were present on the external coating of the cup.On the ceramic liner there were some visible signs, probably occurred during impingement with the stem; moreover, the failure can be related to the surgeon's comments, which were that the patient was suffering from impingement and that the patient flexed her hip, she was hinging off the edge of the cup.Anyway, from the received pieces it was not possible to determine with certainty the root cause of the event.
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