FDA Adverse Event Summary report: N

SURGITEK BREAST IMPLANT, 255 SIZE 11

MDR report key: 11225 · Received February 2, 1994

Report

Report Number
MW1000596
Date Received
February 2, 1994
Report Date
January 26, 1994
Manufacturer
MEDICAL ENGINEERING 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 AUGMENTATION MAMMOPLASTY FOR FIBROCYSTIC DISEASE USING ANOTHER CO'S IMPLANT. ON 6/25/82, THE OLD IMPLANTS WERE REPLACED WITH THIS CO'S IMPLANTS. PT HAD 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 HANDS SWELL, GLANDS UNDER ARMS SWELL, HAIR LOSS, COLDNESS AND PAIN OF EXTREMITIES, SECOND IMPLANTS DON'T FEEL RIGHT, HIP REPLACEMENT, GASTRITIS, DEGENERATION OF CERVICAL SPINE, CAPSULAR CONTRACTURES, THINNING BREAST SKIN, POLYARTHRITIS, RAYNAUD'S PHENOMENON, INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS, DIZZINESS, LESIONS, HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA, OSTEOARTHRITIS. (ALSO SEE MW1000595 AND 1000597.)

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
1 SURGITEK BREAST IMPLANT, 255 SIZE 11 FTR MEDICAL ENGINEERING CORP. 0482-80-L, 6766-82-E

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 *