| Model Number |
ARTHREX ECLIPSE HUMERAL HEAD, 45/17 |
| Health Effect - Clinical Codes |
Tissue Damage (2104); Osteolysis (2377)
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| Date of Event |
09/24/2019
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Type of Reportable Event
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Serious Injury
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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The contribution of the device to the reported event could not be determined as the device was not returned for evaluation.The root cause of the event could not be determined from the information available and without device evaluation.
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Event or Problem Description
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It was discovered during social safeguard review that the following incident was mentioned in an arthrex chatter community: on (b)(6) 2019 a (b)(6) year old patient underwent a revision procedure where an arthrex eclipse ar-9345-17 (lot 1295172500) was explanted.The patient had a long surgical history involving this shoulder.Including an open glenohumeral operation that required his subscapularis being taken down.The subscap repair did not involve arthrex products and was reported to have failed.The arthrex eclipse device had been implanted during a 2018 procedure which was performed in kuwait.There is no additional information available with regard to the original arthrex implant procedure.During the (b)(6) 2019 procedure the arthrex eclipse device was found to be have a solid fixation in the patient bone.The device was able to be explanted with only the minimal bone loss equal to the space of the 18mm cage screw.During the procedure the cage screw, reunion and glenoid were also removed however there is no information available with regard to the part numbers of these devices.The devices will not be returning to arthrex for evaluation because they were reported to have been sent to pathology as specimen samples.
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Search Alerts/Recalls
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