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What You Should Know About Hernia Mesh Complications
According to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, more than one million hernia repair surgeries happen every year in the U.S., 90 percent of hernia repair surgeries use hernia mesh.
U.K. Investigation Reveals 170,000 Patients Suffering From Hernia Mesh Complications
Out of approximately 570,000 U.K. patients who have undergone hernia mesh surgery since 2012, as many as 170,000 may be suffering from complications. This information came out of an investigative report from the BBC, which was also published recently in the British Medical Journal.
U.K. Health Secretary Announces Temporary Ban on Pelvic Mesh Repairs – But Use of Hernia Mesh Continues
Last month, the death of a 75-year-old woman in Loanhead, Scotland, was officially attributed to the surgical mesh that had been used to repair her pelvic organ prolapse (PoP). It is the first time that surgical mesh has been listed on an official death certificate as an “underlying cause.”
The Atrium C-QUR Mesh: is the Fish Oil Coating Part of the Problem?
Surgical mesh devices used to repair conditions such as pelvic organ prolapse and hernias have been implicated in thousands of patient injuries. As of June 2018, more than 50,000 lawsuits have been filed against hernia mesh manufacturers.
Federal Court Overseeing Physiomesh Lawsuit Requires Surgically Removed Mesh be Preserved
The Honorable Judge Richard Story, who is presiding over multidistrict litigation involving the Ethicon Physiomesh hernia mesh, recently issued an order that provides guidelines for attorneys representing the plaintiffs who have suffered severe, and in some cases, permanent injury because of the device's failure.
Hernia Mesh Defendant C.R. Bard Indicates Support for MDL if Certain Conditions Are Met
On April 10, fifty-five of the nearly 100 plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits against medical device manufacturers C.R. Bard, Davol Inc., and BD Medical Technology filed a petition asking the court to centralize all cases into multidistrict litigation (MDL). In the filing, they specifically requested that the cases be heard before a U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri or Ohio's Southern District.
Covidien's Parietex Composite Mesh Cited as Cause of Action in New Hernia Mesh Lawsuit
In 2011, Covidien, a subsidiary of Medtronic, touted its ParietexTM Composite Ventral Patch as a “clinically proven collagen film technology to minimize visceral attachment...designed for optimal abdominal wall conformability in umbilical and small ventral hernia repair.” Six years later, a patient who had receive
History Repeats Itself: Hernia Mesh Lawsuits are Being Filed Nationwide
As the late baseball legend Yogi Berra reportedly said, “It's déjà vu all over again.”
Holding Them Accountable: Ethicon Physiomesh Lawsuits Move Forward This Week
On August 1st, the Honorable Judge Richard Story of the Northern District of Georgia began the process that will hopefully hold medical device manufacturer Ethicon to account for the manufacture of a device it allegedly knew was defective in design.
Physicians are Rethinking the Hernia Mesh
As knowledge about the problems with the hernia mesh becomes more widespread, an increasing number of patients facing hernia surgery are doing their own due diligence and asking their surgeons about different solutions. The fact is that there are alternatives to the hernia mesh. Why aren't these alternatives more widely known?