[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/metal-hip\/biomet\/biomet-magnum-hip-lawsuit-washington\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/metal-hip\/biomet\/biomet-magnum-hip-lawsuit-washington\/","headline":"Ticking Time-Bombs Implanted in the Hips of Thousands of WA Patients","name":"Ticking Time-Bombs Implanted in the Hips of Thousands of WA Patients","description":"(Seattle, WA – November 28, 2017) \u2013 Three patients suffering heavy metal poisoning from a metal-on-metal hip replacement filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Seattle against Biomet Orthopaedics. The three patients experienced heavy metal poisoning, tissue and muscle necrosis, pseudotumors, and unnecessary hip revision surgeries because of the defective Biomet Magnum hip replacement, as alleged in […]","datePublished":"2017-11-28","dateModified":"2026-01-22","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/author\/gilda\/#Person","name":"mctlaw","url":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/author\/gilda\/","identifier":3,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0c4361f692a48baef0e890217ad68886a6303b61fafc90940c5e8a0dac5d3fa?s=96&d=blank&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0c4361f692a48baef0e890217ad68886a6303b61fafc90940c5e8a0dac5d3fa?s=96&d=blank&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"mctlaw","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mctlaw-color-for-schema.jpg","url":"http:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mctlaw-color-for-schema.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mctlaw-color-for-schema.jpg","url":"http:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mctlaw-color-for-schema.jpg","width":100,"height":100},"url":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/metal-hip\/biomet\/biomet-magnum-hip-lawsuit-washington\/","about":["Biomet"],"wordCount":809,"articleBody":"(Seattle, WA – November 28, 2017) \u2013 Three patients suffering heavy metal poisoning from a metal-on-metal hip replacement filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Seattle against Biomet Orthopaedics. The three patients experienced heavy metal poisoning, tissue and muscle necrosis, pseudotumors, and unnecessary hip revision surgeries because of the defective Biomet Magnum hip replacement, as alleged in the attached complaint. Thousands of other Washington citizens have this same hip implant and Biomet has failed to warn them or their surgeons of this serious problem.The lawsuit says Biomet sold the Magnum hip replacement without conducting any clinical testing before putting them into patients\u2019 bodies.\u00a0 Biomet then never warned patients and doctors when faced with compelling evidence that these hips were harming people.\u00a0 \u201cAccording to Washington orthopedic surgeons I\u2019ve met with, there are currently thousands of patients in the state who have a Magnum hip in their bodies,\u201d says lead attorney Altom Maglio.\u00a0 \u201cOur fear is that they don\u2019t know about this possible ticking time bomb inside of them.\u201dYellow Turbid Fluid Filled CystEllen Pardee of Seattle was implanted with a Biomet Magnum hip replacement in 2010.  In 2017 doctors diagnosed her with a large pseudocyst and severe tissue damage around the Magnum implant.  When surgeons opened her up, they found that \u201ca large amount of turbid yellow fluid came out from a cystic structure.\u201d  They also discovered a large tumor surrounding her IT band \u201cwith yellowish-brown caseating lining.\u201d  The damage left behind was devastating. Ms. Pardee\u2019s Biomet Magnum hip destroyed her iliotibial band and damaged her hip abductor tendon, along with all the muscles behind the Magnum implant.  She may never walk normally again.Two Magnum Hips Go In, Only One Comes OutJames Millard had two Magnum hips put in:  One in 2009 and the other in 2012.  By 2017 doctors told Millard that both Magnums had to come out immediately and diagnosed him with extremely high levels of heavy metal poisoning. Tragically, Mr. Millard still has one of the defective Magnum hips inside his body today. Surgeons tried to remove it for 45 minutes by \u201cpounding on to the stem to loosen it,\u201d but they couldn\u2019t get it out without fracturing his right femur. Now Mr. Millard faces a lifetime of worry that the cobalt and chromium heavy metals being released by the Magnum will continue to poison him.Gruesome SurgeryAlan Rossi, MD is a medical doctor, but he is also a patient and victim of his Biomet Magnum hip. He ended up with a huge fluid-filled cyst in his hip and dangerously high heavy metal levels in his bloodstream.  When surgeons tried to remove the Magnum implant, the stem and adapter were \u201cwelded in place.\u201d  The orthopedic surgeon had to rip open the femur to remove the stem and then wire the fractured bones back together around a new stem.  On an X-ray, it looks like barbed wire holds the bone together.The Problems with Biomet Magnum HipsBiomet hired Olympic gold medal gymnast Mary Lou Retton to sell the Magnum hip. Biomet aggressively promoted Retton as a Magnum hip replacement success story.  Unfortunately, Retton\u2019s Magnum hip failed, and she had to have it surgically removed. Mary Lou Retton has had to file her own lawsuit against Biomet.  Strangely, Biomet continues to use Retton\u2019s image and story to promote the success of the Magnum hip.Biomet kept selling the Magnum hip in the United States until 2014, even after a worldwide recall four years earlier for very similar hip implants.  In 2015, the Australian government forced Biomet to recall the Magnum because of a higher-than-expected revision rate.  However, Biomet continues to claim that the identical product sold in the United States is not defective.To this day, Biomet has still not warned patients or orthopedic surgeons in the United States of the Australian recall or to screen for heavy metal poisoning.  Most people and their doctors are unaware of Magnum-specific research studies showing incredibly high rates of pseudotumors and tissue death caused by heavy metal poisoning from the Magnum.  \u201cThis is a huge health crisis in Washington,\u201d says Maglio. \u201cMagnum patients should be receiving careful orthopedic screening and monitoring, but neither they nor their surgeons know of the risk of heavy metal poisoning from these hips.\u201dAbout mctlawMctlaw is a national medical product liability law firm with offices in Seattle, WA, Washington, DC, and Sarasota, FL.  Mctlaw filed the first metal on metal (MoM) hip replacement lawsuit in the United States in 2008 and has been continuously litigating metal on metal hip replacement cases since that time.  The Firm is presently representing patients across the United States who have suffered the effects of heavy metal poisoning from Biomet Magnum hip replacements.CONTACT:Altom M. 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