FDA Adverse Event Summary report: N

BREAST IMPLANT, 175 CC

MDR report key: 11224 · Received February 2, 1994

Report

Report Number
MW1000595
Date Received
February 2, 1994
Report Date
January 26, 1994
Manufacturer
DOW CORNING CORP.
Product Code
FTR
Report Source
Voluntary report
Reporter Location
WV, US
Reporter Occupation
PATIENT

Narratives

Description of Event or Problem · 1

ON 4/28/75, RPTR HAD A SIMPLE MASTECTOMY WITH BILATERAL AUGMENTATION MAMMOPLASTY FOR FIBROCYSTIC DISEASE. THIS CO'S IMPLANT WAS USED. ON 6/25/82, RPTR HAD REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT WITH ANOTHER CO'S IMPLANTS BECAUSE OF SEVERE BILATERAL CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE. OTHER PROBLEMS: POOR CIRCULATION, PAIN IN BREASTS, BACK, RIBS, ARMS AND FINGERS, POSSIBLE IMPLANT LEAKAGE/RUPTURE, ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, RASHES ON ARMS, FATIGUE, JOINT SWELLING/PAIN/STIFFNESS, MUSCLE FATIGUE, IMPLANT SKIN HARDENING, FINGER AND HAND SWELLING, GLANDS UNDER ARMS SWELL, HAIR LOSS, COLDNESS AND PAIN OF EXTREMITIES, SECOND IMPLANTS DON'T FEEL RIGHT, HIP REPLACED, GASTRITIS, DEGENERATION OF CERVICAL SPINE, CAPSULAR CONTRACTURES, THINNING BREAST SKIN, POLYARTHRITIS, RAYNAUD'S PHENOMENON, INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS, DIZZINESS, LESIONS, HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA AND OSTEOARTHRITIS. (ALSO SEE MW1000596 AND 1000597.)

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
1 BREAST IMPLANT, 175 CC FTR DOW CORNING CORP. HH2154

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 *