Dr. William T. Long, a colleague of Dr. Larry Dorr at the Dorr Arthritis Institute, has created a series of videos featuring interviews with patients who have experienced the failure of their Zimmer Durom hip replacements. In the videos, he states that the purpose of making and publishing these videos on the internet is to [...]

At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons this past February, Dr. Lawrence Dorr and three of his colleagues – Dr. Zhinian Wan, Dr. William Long, and Dr. Manish Dastane of Los Angeles, California – presented a poster on patient outcomes involving the Zimmer Durom cup.  In the poster abstract, the group reports:
The [...]

This past February, the surgeon who first sounded the alarm about the high failure rate of the Zimmer Durom cups, Dr. Lawrence Dorr, gave a presentation at a meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons.  His presentation was titled “Unexplained Loosening of Uncemented Acetabular Components: What Have We Learned for the Future?”  [...]

As of today’s date, more than 400 cases of Durom hip replacement failures have been reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As time goes on, this number continues to climb. You can read about these individuals’ experiences on the FDA’s website, here:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfMAUDE/TextResults.cfm
In other news, Zimmer reported its first quarter earnings for [...]

Zimmer, Inc. released an annual shareholder report last week which outlines the impact of the Durom hip replacement failures on the company’s 2008 profits and its projections for 2009. In particular, Item 7 of the company’s 10-K form provides a synopsis of the events surrounding the Durom failures and states:In July 2008, we temporarily [...]

As of this morning, over 325 cases of failure of the Zimmer Durom cup have been reported to the Food and Drug Administration. The great majority of these failures cite a lack of bony ingrowth of the Durom cup as the cause of failure. As time goes on, this number is sure to [...]

On January 31, 2009, Zimmer, Inc. released a report to shareholders on its fourth quarter earnings for 2008. To pull straight from the release:
“In the fourth quarter, the Company increased its provision for known and anticipated claims relating to the previously announced voluntary suspension of marketing and distribution of the Durom Acetabular Component in [...]

We have recently received some documents from the Food and Drug Administration under the Freedom of Information Act, among which was included an email thread pertaining to the failures of the Zimmer Durom cups. Notably, the FDA regulators point out (and even put the print in bold font) rumors from Zimmer that a New [...]

As of this afternoon, there are over 200 reports of failures involving the Zimmer Durom cup in the Food and Drug Administration’s database.

Dr. Lawrence Dorr, the surgeon who first came out publicly about Zimmer’s faulty Durom hip replacements, has published what he titles a “Clinical Profile of Patient with a Loose Durom Cup”.
He reports that patients with failed Durom hip replacements often feel no better after the hip replacement surgery than they did before. The [...]