If you have experienced injuries as a result
of transvaginal mesh surgery, it is critical to preserve your rights.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began reviewing the safety
of the transvaginal mesh surgery in 2011.
If you have been injured as a result
of transvaginal mesh surgery, it is important to contact an attorney who is experienced in handling defective medical device cases.
The NHS and MHRA's proposal includes a medical registry that would allow surgeons to track the outcomes
of transvaginal mesh surgeries to better understand their efficacy and the potential side effects of transvaginal mesh.
Not exact matches
The FDA stated that the use
of a
Transvaginal mesh implant like the Bard Avaulta, Johnson & Johnson, American Medical Systems, Boston Scientific, and other vaginal
mesh is no more effective compared to other
surgeries yet is much more likely to cause injury and require revision
surgery.
It also reported it was not clear that
transvaginal mesh surgery is more effective than non-
mesh repair
of POP.
During
transvaginal mesh surgery, surgical
mesh is permanently implanted inside a woman's body in the form
of a sling.
Many
transvaginal mesh manufacturers such as Johnson & Johnson and C. R. Bard have stopped selling their
mesh devices after thousands
of women have complained
of severe pain, limited mobility and the need for revision
surgery.
The Gynecare Prolift is the subject
of the first
transvaginal mesh lawsuit to go to trial in New Jersey, where Linda Gross alleges the device failed and required 18 revision
surgeries.
Johnson & Johnson claims that Gross was warned
of risks associated with the
transvaginal mesh prior to
surgery.
The FDA issued a
mesh warning after receiving an influx
of complaints from patients who allege that their
transvaginal mesh device were causing severe complications, pain and sometimes revision
surgery.
The most common side effect reported by patients with
transvaginal mesh was vaginal
mesh erosion, or exposure
of the
mesh patch after
surgery.
More than 600 patients who developed complications after
surgery have filed
transvaginal mesh lawsuits against manufacturers
of the patch.
You may be entitled to money damages for what you have been put through or will go through in the future because
of the complications from
transvaginal pelvic
mesh surgery.
Organ perforation is one
of the most common side effects experienced by patients who undergo
surgery with
transvaginal mesh and can cause extreme pain and discomfort.
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 10 %
of women who underwent
surgery with
transvaginal mesh for pelvic organ prolapse experienced
mesh erosion within one year.