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Welcome to Mesh News Desk
Nov 1, 2016 | Mesh Medical Device Newsdesk
By Jane Akre
Welcome to Mesh Medical Device News Desk, your website for news and updates on pelvic and hernia mesh, its implications, complications and outcomes, both medically and legally. -
Ethicon Physiomesh Lawsuit Springs from Medical Device Withdrawl
Nov 1, 2016 | Lawyers And Settlements
By Gordon Gibb
It wasn’t that long ago that problems associated with transvaginal mesh commanded headlines and fueled lawsuits. Now the mesh is back, but this time stemming from a different indication.
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Nov 1, 2016 | Mesh Medical Device Newsdesk
By Jane Akre
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, November 1, 2016 ~ Welcome to Mesh Medical Device News Desk, your website for news and updates on pelvic and hernia mesh, its implications, complications and outcomes, both medically and legally.
If you are new to the mesh mess, welcome! Mesh News Desk (MND) aka MMDND has been covering this issue for five years now.
We are not beholden to any influences here, just coverage that is in the public interest. Advertisers or sponsors are clearly labeled. Advertisers are welcome. I look forward to receiving any essays by you all – doctors, lawyers, mesh-injured, observers of this dark chapter in medical product innovation.
This website should not be considered medical advice. Nor should it substitute for any legal advice from professionals. Many readers turn here however because they say their law firms are not talking to them!
As you may know, there were so many pelvic mesh cases that multidistrict litigation was formed (MDL) in January 2012 to handle all of the cases. The theory was that lower court rulings would be more consistent and that attorneys could share work product and not have to reinvent the wheel to prepare a case for trial.
For a while bellwether cases were heard against four main manufacturers – Boston Scientific, Ethicon (J&J), AMS and C.R. Bard – but then they stopped. Mesh makers slowly offered settlement, most insufficient for those patients who will need long-term care.
Now Judge Joseph Goodwin, overseeing the MDL, has given firm deadlines to ready the oldest cases (Wave 4) sitting on the Ethicon docket to make them trial ready. Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has 163 cases ready to go to trial beginning in December, most naming J&J.
All of this is to say that the great lapse between trials may soon close.As of today – there are 97,293 product liability lawsuits filed in Judge Goodwin’s court alone. The MDL never imagined this could happen as it’s never happened before!
If you have experienced an autoimmune disorder SINCE YOUR IMPLANT, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers would like to hear from you. Please feel free to enter your information in this registry.
As researchers are looking into the thousands of anecdotal reports of autoimmune and systemic reactions whether it be fibromyalgia, joint pain, Lupus, rashes, hair falling out, teeth falling out, the list goes on, but the symptoms reported are remarkably similar.
Stay tuned, stay well and learn from each other. Lawyers – call your clients! Or you could run a PR release through Mesh News so many could have the benefit of seeing it at the same time.
Please feel free to share you experience on these pages. You can write anonymously.
http://www.meshmedicaldevicenewsdesk.com/welcome-mesh-news-desk/
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Ethicon Physiomesh Lawsuit Springs from Medical Device Withdrawl
Nov 1, 2016 | Lawyers And Settlements
By Gordon Gibb
Orlando, FL It wasn’t that long ago that problems associated with transvaginal mesh commanded headlines and fueled lawsuits. Now the mesh is back, but this time stemming from a different indication. The complaints, however, are similar: allegations of early failure causing pain and other health implications for the patient, prompting many to file a Surgical Mesh lawsuit.
A recent Mesh lawsuit alleging problems with Physiomesh – a now-withdrawn product used in laparoscopic and incisional hernia surgery and manufactured by Ethicon Inc. – was filed September 22 in US District Court, Middle District of Florida. The Surgical Mesh lawsuit plaintiff underwent a procedure to repair a hernia in 2014 using the Physiomesh product. After complaints of persistent pain, a second procedure was attempted a year later to remove the Physiomesh. The surgeon, according to the Mesh lawsuit, was unable to remove all of the Physiomesh from the plaintiff’s abdomen due to debris from the failing mesh having become stuck to the plaintiff’s abdominal wall and bowels – leaving the plaintiff with ongoing Surgical mesh complications.
It should be noted that according to court documents the initial hernia repair was identified as an ‘incisional’ procedure, as opposed to laparoscopy.
The Surgical Mesh Complications identified by the plaintiff in the September Surgical Mesh lawsuit is eerily similar to reports of mesh problems associated with many a Transvaginal mesh lawsuit – in sum, mesh that becomes entangled in organs, tissue or protrudes into the vagina, with early rates of failure.
As reported last month by LawyersandSettlements.com writer Heidi Turner, Ethicon Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh products were witdrawn by the manufacturer in May, with Ethicon extending an offer of a full refund to healthcare facilities and medical professionals for returned product by September 16.
That deadline has now passed. The Florida lawsuit was filed six days later, on September 22.Turner reported that two unpublished studies – undertaken by the German and Danish Medical Registries – found early failure rates for Ethicon Physiomesh. The product was found to break down too early, potentially allowing hernias to reoccur, or introducing the potential for bacterial infection.
The Florida Physiomesh lawsuit cites use of Physiomesh Product Code PHY2025V, a product code that was included in the product codes identified in the recent Physiomesh recall.
The Florida complainant alleges that the Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh device she received was defectively designed and manufactured. Her Surgical Mesh lawsuit asserts that the Plaintiff is likely to suffer pain and medical complications for the remainder of her life.
The Surgical Mesh Complications lawsuit is Case No. 6:16-cv-01663-PGB-DAB, in US District Court, Middle District of Florida. The plaintiff is identified as Joanne Quinn. The defendants are identified as Ethicon, Inc. and Johnson & Johnson, both of New Jersey.https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/mesh-complications/surgical-mesh-lawsuit-transvaginal-21817.html
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