FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.: LCS COMPLETE RPS Femoral Implants, various sizes and orientation. Knee prosthesis component for orthopedic surgery.
- Recall number
- Z-1672-2015
- Recalling firm
- DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.
- Product
- LCS COMPLETE RPS Femoral Implants, various sizes and orientation. Knee prosthesis component for orthopedic surgery.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2015-03-04
- Posted
- 2015-05-26
- Terminated
- 2015-10-30
- Reason
- The LCS COMPLETE RPS Knee System has higher rates of revision in Australia when the native patella is not resurfaced when compared to other unresurfaced PS implants. If the LCS COMPLETE RPS Knee System is implanted and the native patella is not resurfaced, the patient may experience patello-femoral pain, potentially requiring a secondary procedure.
- Root cause
- Unknown/Undetermined by firm
- Action
- On 3/4/2015, URGENT INFORMATION - DEVICE CORRECTION NOTICE for the LCS COMPLETE RPS Knee System and on 3/19/2015 REVISED URGENT INFORMATION - DEVICE CORRECTION NOTICE for the LCS COMPLETE RPS Knee System (Revised) notifications were sent to the affected distributors and medical professionals. All distributors were notified via electronic mail, and all medical professionals with affected inventory were also notified by distributor or Sales Consultant via in person delivery or mail or electronic mail. The recall notification included a description of the reason for the recall, affected product, consignee responsibilities, and instructions for responding to the formal recall notification. For questions, please contact Kim Earle, Recall Coordinator, at 574-371-4917 (M-F; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT).
- Quantity
- 19,059
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution-US (nationwide) and the countries of CANADA, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, UK, FRANCE, GREECE, IRELAND, ISRAEL, ITALY, KOREA, LUXEMBOURG, MALAYSIA, NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY, SOUTH AFRICA, SWITZERLAND, THAILAND.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- All Lots. Catalog numbers: 129411010 129411020 129411030 129411040 129411050 129411060 129411070 129412010 129412020 129412030 129412040 129412050 129412060 129412070 129495040 129495050 129495060 129496040 129496050 129496060
- 510(k) numbers
- not on file
- PMA numbers
- ["P830055"]
- Product code
- NJL
- Firm FEI
- 1818910
- Firm city
- Warsaw
- Firm state
- IN
- Firm country
- not on file
Where this comes from
- Register
- FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
- File
- device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
- sha256
- b87518bfe2e8
- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
- Source file
- Source file retained · verify
- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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