LCS COMPLETE POROCOATRecalls & reported problems across all models

We found 9 models of LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT by Depuy Orthopaedics, Inc. in the FDA's device registry (GUDID). Together they are named in 76 adverse event reports in the FDA's MAUDE database, received between Aug 9, 2017 and Aug 25, 2026 — classified as 73 injuries, 3 malfunctions.

The most frequently reported specific device problem is “Insufficient Device Problem Information” (10 reports).

Reports come from manufacturers, hospitals and patients and are not verified by the FDA. A report does not prove the device caused the event. Widely used products collect more reports, so totals can't be used to compare products or estimate failure rates. Only reports that name a model's exact device identifier are counted. What reports can and can't tell you · How this data works

Most reported LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT problems

LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT models

9 models, most reported first. Each model has its own page with its reports, recalls and device details.

• LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT 1294-04-040

  Prosthesis, knee, patellofemorotibial, semi-constrained, metal/polymer, mobile bearing
  13 reports
• LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT 1294-03-040

  Prosthesis, knee, patellofemorotibial, semi-constrained, metal/polymer, mobile bearing
  12 reports
• LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT 1294-03-060

  Prosthesis, knee, patellofemorotibial, semi-constrained, metal/polymer, mobile bearing
  12 reports
• LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT 1294-03-050

  Prosthesis, knee, patellofemorotibial, semi-constrained, metal/polymer, mobile bearing
  11 reports
• LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT 1294-04-050

  Prosthesis, knee, patellofemorotibial, semi-constrained, metal/polymer, mobile bearing
  11 reports
• LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT 1294-04-060

  Prosthesis, knee, patellofemorotibial, semi-constrained, metal/polymer, mobile bearing
  9 reports
• LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT 1294-04-070

  Prosthesis, knee, patellofemorotibial, semi-constrained, metal/polymer, mobile bearing
  4 reports
• LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT 1294-03-030

  Prosthesis, knee, patellofemorotibial, semi-constrained, metal/polymer, mobile bearing
  2 reports
• LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT 1294-03-070

  Prosthesis, knee, patellofemorotibial, semi-constrained, metal/polymer, mobile bearing
  2 reports

Recent LCS COMPLETE POROCOAT adverse event reports

The 15 most recent reports across all models, in the reporter's own words as published by the FDA.

• InjuryAug 25, 2026Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  It was reported the patient underwent a revision procedure due to osteolysis and lateral distal bone loss on the femur. The LCS tibia was left insitu and Attune PS femur & Attune PS RP bearing + Attune Dome Patella were implanted with cement even though the surgeon was informed this was considered off label use. The bearing was able to fit into the tibia and was tested prior to implantation, however, due to the patient's scar tissues being very tight the surgeon had to trim the bearing to get access and fit it in and get around the condyles of the new femoral component; he was informed this was also off label use.

  Patient problems: Adhesion(s); Bone Notching; Osteolysis

  MAUDE report 50437807 ↗
• InjuryAug 7, 2026Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth first report of retrievals for Statement of Work 10 for Q2 of 2026. (b)(6) is the research location, and not the facility of placement.A DePuy Synthes Implant was revised and reviewed for analysis.Reason for revision: Revision due to infection, pain, and debonded tibial component. The non-articular surface of the cemented tibial tray shows a minor retrieval artifact, sparse cement remaining, and relative motion between cement and metal although minor.

  Patient problems: Pain; Unspecified Infection

  MAUDE report 50176751 ↗
• InjuryDec 4, 2025Naturally Worn; Naturally Worn

  IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE PATIENT UNDERWENT THE REVISION OF LCS DUE TO BEARING WEARING OUT PARTICULARLY ON THE MEDIAL SIDE. THIS HAS BEEN IMPLANTED INSITU FOR A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME. PATIENT UNDERWENT A REVISION FROM LCS TO ATTUNE REVISION USING A STEM AND SLEEVE ON THE FEMUR & TIBIA. SURGERY WAS SUCCESSFUL AND SURGEON WAS HAPPY WITH THE BALANCE AT THE END OF THE CASE.

  Patient problems: Insufficient Information

  MAUDE report 23720881 ↗
• InjuryNov 24, 2025Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  THIS COMPLAINT IS FROM A LITERATURE SOURCE. THE FOLLOWING LITERATURE CITE HAS BEEN REVIEWED: SCHOUTENS C, NOLTE PA, VAN NOORT A. TRAUMATIC ANTERIOR TIBIOFEMORAL DISLOCATION OF MOBILE-BEARING TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY: TWO CASES. TRAUMA CASE REP. 2025 FEB 17;56:101144. DOI: 10.1016/J.TCR.2025.101144. PMID: 40083388; PMCID: PMC11904596. OBJECTIVE/METHODS/STUDY DATA: THIS STUDY PRESENTS 2 CASES; CASE 1: A 71-YEAR-OLD CAUCASIAN WOMAN PRESENTED TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AFTER A FALL FROM STANCE ONTO THE FLOOR IN THE DOMESTIC SETTING, IN WHICH HYPEREXTENSION OF HER LEFT PROSTHETIC KNEE JOINT HAD PROBABLY OCCURRED. A LCS COMPLETE¿ CEMENTLESS ROTATING PLATFORM TKA HAD BEEN IMPLANTED FIFTEEN YEARS PRIOR FOR SYMPTOMATIC LATERAL OSTEOARTHRITIS. CASE 2: A 73-YEAR-OLD CAUCASIAN WOMAN PRESENTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AFTER SLIPPING ON AN OIL SPILL AND FALLING DIRECTLY ONTO HER LEFT KNEE. SHE WAS IN SEVERE PAIN, COULD NOT BEAR WEIGHT, AND HAD A DEFORMED LEFT KNEE JOINT. A LEFT LSC COMPLETE¿ CEMENTLESS ROTATING PLATFORM TKA HAD BEEN IMPLANTED 8 YEARS PRIOR FOR SYMPTOMATIC OSTEOARTHRITIS IN AN UNCOMPLICATED PROCEDURE. LOT, MODEL AND CATALOG NUMBERS ARE NOT AVAILABLE, BUT THE SUSPECTED DEPUY SYNTHES

  Patient problems: Ambulation or Postural Difficulties; Joint Laxity; Pain; Swelling/ Edema; Unspecified Tissue Injury

  MAUDE report 23630372 ↗
• InjuryNov 24, 2025Device Dislodged or Dislocated; Device Dislodged or Dislocated

  THIS COMPLAINT IS FROM A LITERATURE SOURCE. THE FOLLOWING LITERATURE CITE HAS BEEN REVIEWED: SCHOUTENS C, NOLTE PA, VAN NOORT A. TRAUMATIC ANTERIOR TIBIOFEMORAL DISLOCATION OF MOBILE-BEARING TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY: TWO CASES. TRAUMA CASE REP. 2025 FEB 17; 56:101144. DOI: 10.1016/J.TCR.2025.101144. PMID: 40083388; PMCID: PMC11904596. OBJECTIVE/METHODS/STUDY DATA: THIS STUDY PRESENTS 2 CASES; CASE 1: A 71-YEAR-OLD CAUCASIAN WOMAN PRESENTED TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AFTER A FALL FROM STANCE ONTO THE FLOOR IN THE DOMESTIC SETTING, IN WHICH HYPEREXTENSION OF HER LEFT PROSTHETIC KNEE JOINT HAD PROBABLY OCCURRED. A LCS COMPLETE¿ CEMENTLESS ROTATING PLATFORM TKA HAD BEEN IMPLANTED FIFTEEN YEARS PRIOR FOR SYMPTOMATIC LATERAL OSTEOARTHRITIS. CASE 2: A 73-YEAR-OLD CAUCASIAN WOMAN PRESENTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AFTER SLIPPING ON AN OIL SPILL AND FALLING DIRECTLY ONTO HER LEFT KNEE. SHE WAS IN SEVERE PAIN, COULD NOT BEAR WEIGHT, AND HAD A DEFORMED LEFT KNEE JOINT. A LEFT LSC COMPLETE¿ CEMENTLESS ROTATING PLATFORM TKA HAD BEEN IMPLANTED 8 YEARS PRIOR FOR SYMPTOMATIC OSTEOARTHRITIS IN AN UNCOMPLICATED PROCEDURE. LOT, MODEL AND CATALOG NUMBERS ARE NOT AVAILABLE, BUT THE SUSPECTED DEPUY SYNTHES

  Patient problems: Ambulation or Postural Difficulties; Joint Dislocation; Pain

  MAUDE report 23630347 ↗
• InjuryOct 15, 2025Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  IT WAS REPORTED THAT KNEE BECAME UNSTABLE. SURGEON ATTEMPTED TO SWAP THE POLY FOR A LARGER SIZE, BUT HAD TO REMOVE/REPLACE THE FEMUR AND POLY. DOI: (B)(6) 2017. DOR: (B)(6) 2025. AFFECTED SIDE: LEFT KNEE.

  Patient problems: Joint Laxity

  MAUDE report 23286347 ↗
• InjuryAug 20, 2025Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED AN INFECTED LEFT TKR THAT REQUIRED REMOVAL OF INFECTED IMPLANTS FOR FIRST STAGE REVISION. PATIENT HAD A WASHOUT AND POLY INSERT EXCHANGE DONE.

  Patient problems: Unspecified Infection

  MAUDE report 22849879 ↗
• InjuryJul 24, 2025Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  THE PATIENT HAD DEBRIDEMENT AND CONTRACTURE RELEASE WHICH INCREASED FLEXION TO 85 DEGREES BUT IT THEN STIFFENED UP AGAIN TO ONLY ABOUT 45 DEGREES OF FLEXION. REVISION OF LCS IMPLANTS WHICH WERE IMPLANTED. REVISION DUE TO STIFFNESS, PARTICULARLY GOING UP AND DOWN STAIRS WHICH WAS DEVELOPED POSTOPERATIVELY. THIS WASN'T AN ISSUE INITIALLY POTS OP BUT DEVELOPED OVER TIME. THE PATIENT HAD DEBRIDEMENT AND CONTRACTURE RELEASE WHICH INCREASED FLEXION TO 85 DEGREES BUT IT THEN STIFFENED UP AGAIN TO ONLY ABOUT 45 DEGREES OF FLEXION. THIS WAS HER RIGHT KNEE, NO ISSUES WITH THE LEFT KNEE WHICH NOTES MENTIONED HAD ALSO HAD A TKA. NO PAIN IN LEFT OR RIGHT KNEE. SIZES IN SITU FROM LCS WERE 2.5 TIBIA, 10MM INSERT AND STANDARD FEMUR. INITIAL NOTES POST OP WERE STABLE AND WELL-BALANCED KNEE BUT LATERAL RETINACULAR STRUCTURES WERE TIGHT. NO WEAR WAS OBSERVED ON THE INSERT. A FRACTURE OCCURRED POST REVISION SURGERY, THIS WAS BELIEVED TO BE CAUSED DUE TO THE HIGH BMI (THIS WAS OVER 45 AND WE WERE INFORMED IT WAS SIMILAR CURRENTLY). FRACTURE OCCURRED IN THE FEMUR ABOVE THE STEM (WHICH COULDN'T BE SEEN IN THE X-RAY TAKEN), THIS IS BELIEVED TO HAVE OCCURRED AFTER THE TORNIQUET WAS REMOVED AND THE LEG MOVE

  Patient problems: Loss of Range of Motion; Muscular Rigidity

  MAUDE report 22586148 ↗
• InjuryJul 17, 2025Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  IT WAS REPORTED THAT THERE WAS REVISION OF LCS IMPLANTS. REVISION DUE TO STIFFNESS, PARTICULARLY GOING UP AND DOWN STAIRS WHICH WAS DEVELOPED POSTOPERATIVELY. THIS WASN'T AN ISSUE INITIALLY POST OP BUT DEVELOPED OVER TIME. THE PATIENT UNDERWENT DEBRIDEMENT AND CONTRACTURE RELEASE WHICH INCREASED FLEXION TO 85 DEGREES BUT IT THEN STIFFENED UP AGAIN TO ONLY ABOUT 45 DEGREES OF FLEXION. THIS WAS HER RIGHT KNEE, NO ISSUES WITH THE LEFT KNEE WHICH NOTES MENTIONED HAD ALSO HAD A TKA. NO PAIN IN LEFT OR RIGHT KNEE. SIZES IN SITU FROM LCS WERE 2.5 TIBIA, 10MM INSERT AND STANDARD FEMUR. INITIAL NOTES POST OP FROM [YEAR] WERE STABLE AND WELL-BALANCED KNEE BUT LATERAL RETINACULAR STRUCTURES WERE TIGHT. NO WEAR WAS OBSERVED ON THE INSERT. A FRACTURE OCCURRED POST REVISION SURGERY, THIS WAS BELIEVED TO BE CAUSED DUE TO THE HIGH BMI. FRACTURE OCCURRED IN THE FEMUR ABOVE THE STEM (WHICH COULDN'T BE SEEN IN THE X-RAY TAKEN), THIS IS BELIEVED TO HAVE OCCURRED AFTER THE TORNIQUET WAS REMOVED AND THE LEG MOVED POST OP.

  Patient problems: Bone Fracture(s); Muscular Rigidity

  MAUDE report 22529934 ↗
• InjuryApr 30, 2025Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  IT WAS REPORTED THAT PATIENT HAD THEIR LCS PRIMARY IMPLANTED FOR MEDIAL COMPARTMENT ARTHRITIS. INITIAL SURGERY WAS UNEVENTFUL BUT PATIENT UNDERWENT MANIPULATION UNDER ANAESTHESIA 12 WEEKS POST OP WHEN KNEE MOTION THEN INCREASED 73-120 DEGREES. THIS WAS THEN REVISED IN 2021 DUE TO MID FLEXION INSTABILITY. THE REVISION JUST INVOLVED SWAPPING THE POLY TO 5MM THICKER (UP TO 17.5 MM POLY). WITHIN 3 WEEKS AFTER THIS SHE WAS BACK TO NORMAL. PATIENT WAS REVISED AGAIN ON (B)(6) 2025, AS PATIENT WAS EXPERIENCING MORE INSTABILITY WHICH HAS CAUSED PATIENT TO FALL MANY TIMES. PATIENT REACHED A POINT WHERE PATIENT DIDN'T TEND TO FLEX THE RIGHT KNEE AND WALKS WITH A STIFFER KNEE GAIT PRESUMABLY DUE TO THE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY. THERE WERE NO INDICATIONS OF LOOSENING. THIS REPORT CAPTURES SECOND REVISION PROCEDURE PERFORMED ON (B)(6) 2025, DUE TO INSTABILITY WHILE RELATED COMPLAINT (B)(4) CAPTURES THE FIRST REVISION FOR TIBIAL INSERT ONLY WHICH WAS PERFORMED IN 2021.

  Patient problems: Ambulation or Postural Difficulties; Fall; Joint Laxity

  MAUDE report 21936832 ↗
• InjuryOct 21, 2024Osseointegration Problem; Osseointegration Problem

  ADDITIONAL EVENT INFORMATION STATES THAT THERE WAS NO ADVERSE EVENTS AND NO SURGICAL DELAY.

  Patient problems: Inadequate Osseointegration; Pain

  MAUDE report 20494985 ↗
• InjurySep 23, 2024Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  PATIENT HAS HAD A KNEE REPLACEMENT- ON- (B)(6) 2021. STARTED HAVING ISSUES UNABLE TO DO PHYSICAL THERAPY DUE TO EXTREME PAIN. WENT 9 MONTHS UNTIL HE HAD AN ADDITIONAL SURGERY. HE HAD TO HAVE A SECOND SURGERY ON THIS SAME KNEE AND TOLD HIM THAT A PIECE FELL APART. HE WANTS TO LET SOMEONE KNOW THAT HIS FIRST KNEE REPLACEMENT WAS A FAILURE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RECEIVED DATED SEP 16, 2024: ON (B)(6) 2021, THE PATIENT HAD A RIGHT TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY. THE PATIENT WAS REVISED ON (B)(6) 2023 TO ADDRESS PAIN AND LIMITED MOBILITY AS WELL AS POSSIBLE INFECTION. PATIENT STATED THAT ONE OF THE PIECES "BROKE OFF", BUT WAS NOT CERTAIN WHICH PIECE BROKE. DEPUY COMPONENTS WERE REMOVED AND DEPUY COMPONENTS WERE IMPLANTED DURING THIS PROCEDURE. DOI: (B)(6) 2021. DOR: (B)(6) 2023. RIGHT KNEE.

  Patient problems: Adhesion(s); Ambulation or Postural Difficulties; Joint Contracture; Loss of Range of Motion; Pain; Swelling/ Edema; Unspecified Infection; Unspecified Tissue Injury

  MAUDE report 20279542 ↗
• InjuryJul 8, 2024Migration; Migration

  SURGEON REVISED ONE OF HIS LCS TKR DUE TO SUBSIDENCE OF THE FEMORAL COMPONENT. REVISED TO ATTUNE REVISION. IMPLANTS APPEARED TO HAVE BONE ON-GROWTH.

  Patient problems: No Clinical Signs, Symptoms or Conditions

  MAUDE report 19696891 ↗
• InjuryApr 15, 2024Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  THERE WAS NO SURGICAL DELAY RELATED TO THE EVENT.

  Patient problems: Fall

  MAUDE report 19104722 ↗
• InjuryApr 11, 2024Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  REVISION OF LCS TOTAL KNEE. REVISION DUE TO INSTABILITY AND PAIN. METALLOSIS WAS ALSO NOTED IN THE JOINT.

  Patient problems: Foreign Body Reaction; Joint Laxity; Pain

  MAUDE report 19088739 ↗

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