Tritanium Cup recall

Is this really going to happen? I'm losing cup business right and left to the competition. Most of my guys are now using Stryker stems with competitors cups.

 

whats the issue? Why would it be recalled?

 

I have a Titanium shell since 2012 but have had no problems What is the issue or is this just talk?

 

2 companies 1 cup?

 

I haven't heard a word. What's going on with cup?

 

Cup loosening due to lack of in growth as reported in recent papers. Over 26% reported with lucency in xray

 

Please site paper

 

It's a single surgeon study that reported zero failures. Companies are so petty, registry data is the only thing you should watch, if a product does poorly in the UK and Australian registry it's time to change products if not its companies trying to make smoke.

 

Nestor. 2 cup revisions out of 109 at 5 years. Don't know why these were revised. He suggests that over 35% are 'loose' because of 'radiolucencies'. If they are loose they should be painful. If they are painful then they should be revised.
"Incomplete seating of a high friction acetabular component" would be a more appropriate title to his paper. Polar gapping hardly qualifies as 'loosening'. Maybe his research team would benefit from a basic mechanics lesson.
Maybe they should use their experience to suggest to other hip surgeons that alternative techniques may be beneficial to ensure sufficient pressfit while optimizing full seating of high friction cups (i.e. Peripheral line to line ream). And while polar gapping may result from incomplete seating it doesn't seem to impact performance of this component based on the author's data as well as the registry data.

 

I was thinking the same thing...

 

You're not a Stryker rep....You're not losing any business....and you're not fooling anyone.

This board is so hilarious. How shitty of a rep does someone have to be to go onto a competitors message board and pretend that he or she is experiencing some sort of clinical/business issue with a product? And then, as if you didn't already prove that you were a complete jackass, you put "recall" in the title.

Grow the fuck up and run your business, you fucking child.

 

Hmmm...this is interesting. What do you think about it?

http://www.arthroplastyjournal.org/#/article/S0883-5403(16)30446-6/fulltext

 

The better question is when will the Accolade recall be announced. Tomorrow? Friday? This is going to be fun.

 

Haven't heard about Accolade, except that it sucks, compared to other blade stems. What evidence is there about results?

 

Trunionosis and fretting with metal heads in Accolade 1. Voluntary recall happened last month. The xrays are pretty horrible. Metal missing from the neck trunion.

 

Are we seeing Advanced Local Tissue Reaction with this fretting, similar to ABGII/Rejuvenate issue/recall?

 

I wish I had some Stryker competition to take advantage of this.

 

i wish the hospitals that have forced surgeons to use Stryker's crappy hip would learn a lesson from this...but they saved a couple hundred on a few beds, so that's worth it, right? Oh, and they discounted cement to get the joint sole vendor contract also. Pencil pushers with a degree from DeVry telling doctors how to practice medicine is criminal.

 

Amazing with all of the companies selling Metal stems with Metal heads and only Stryker has a problem? Wake Up.

 

Recall is a go...

http://www.orthospinenews.com/stryker-hip-replacement-helpline-recall-alert/