Sentences with phrase «surgical mesh surgeries»

Many doctors say they don't have enough information on the long - term outcomes of surgical mesh surgeries.

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Doctors are often as much in the dark as their patients when they implant new devices (like the surgical mesh used on Keeton), perform surgery, or write prescriptions.

The personal injury lawyers who work for Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. are well aware of the fact that approximately 75,000 out of the 100,000 POP surgical repairs that were conducted in 2010 (because patients were suffering from complications after surgery) were repairs that had to be conducted because of problems caused by a vaginal mesh implant.

Hernia surgeries, as well, often use surgical mesh as part of the internal hernia repair.

During transvaginal mesh surgery, surgical mesh is permanently implanted inside a woman's body in the form of a sling.

These surgical mesh patches can be used during surgery for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP).

Many patients who were treated with the transvaginal mesh patch have been forced to undergo repeat surgeries in order to remove the surgical mesh or to correct problems with the device.

Surgery to treat SUI can be performed by surgically repairing damaged tissue or through a vaginal sling procedure using a transvaginal surgical mesh product.

Some of the potential complications of surgical mesh include pain, infection, bleeding, organ perforation urinary problems or vaginal mesh erosion at higher rates than patients who elect for traditional surgery.