Hi Don
Welcome to Hip Talk.
You certainly have been doing your homework. Where do you live? I live in Ohio in the USA and am the owner/webmaster of the Surface Hippy Website. I have found over the last 4 years since I started the website - it is very diffiuclt to find out about any products that are not approved by the FDA in the US. If the product is not used in the US, there are few websites with information about them for US surgeons and patients.
In fact, it took the US and the FDA years to even approve the BHR. It was used since 1997 by surgeons in overseas like Dr. De Smet and yet it took our country 12 years to even notice it and finally approve it. The FDA still has not approved the ASR, Biomet and Wright C+ hip resurfacing devices which many people now have.
So I apologize that there is not more information about this ESKA hip device, but have no way of learning any more about it. If you should find out more about it, I would appreciate it if you would share the information with me personally
pwalter@surfacehippy.info or with the group. I would be very surprised if you could find anyone that has this device in the US. Again, if you do, I would love to post their story on my website.
I wanted to let you know why there is no other information available or most likely any people with the device on this website.
I personally wanted the most popular and most used hip resurfacing device in my hip and chose a BHR placed by Dr. De Smet of Belgium that had done over 3000 hip resurfacings. There is a long and excellent track record for the BHR. I do hope that many new hip resurfacing devices and mid head devices become available, but it is a very slow process. The BHMR is being used by several surgeons worldwide and I think a couple have used it in the US, but am not sure about the US doctors. The FDA trials for it have not started as far as I know.
Good Luck and keep looking into your options. I would most highly recommend a BHR, Biomet, ASR or Wright C+ hip resurfacing device. There are people on this board that have all of those hip devices.
Pat