BEUDAMED
    FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

    LAP-BAND ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BANDING SYSTEM 9.75CM

    MDR report key: 1171151 · Received September 18, 2008

    Report

    Report Number
    2024601-2008-00673
    Event Type
    Injury
    Date Received
    September 18, 2008
    Date of Event
    August 19, 2008
    Report Date
    August 19, 2008
    Manufacturer
    BIOENTRICS CORP.
    Product Code
    LTI
    PMA / PMN Number
    P000008
    Adverse Event
    Yes
    Report Source
    Manufacturer report
    Reporter Location
    IT
    Reporter Occupation
    PHYSICIAN

    Narratives

    Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

    TAPER UNK. MEDWATCH SENT TO FDA ON 18/SEP/08. THE RPTR OF THE COMPLAINT WAS ASKED TO RETURN THE PROD FOR ANALYSIS AS WELL AS INDICATE THE PROD SERIAL NUMBER, DATE OF EVENT, IMPLANT DATE AND EXPLANT DATE. THE INFO HAS NOT YET BEEN REC'D BY ALLERGAN. THE CONNECTOR TYPE CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED NOR AN ASSUMPTION MADE AS TO THE TYPE OF CONNECTOR ASSOCIATED WITH THIS COMPLAINT BECAUSE NO SERIAL NUMBER OR IMPLANT DATE WAS GIVEN. VISUAL EXAMINATION MAY DETERMINE THE CONNECTOR TYPE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS REPORT. ALLERGAN HAS NOT REC'D THE PROD AT THIS TIME. THEREFORE, NO ANALYSIS OR TESTING HAS BEEN DONE. BAND SLIPPAGE IS A SURGICAL/PHYSIOLOGICAL COMPLICATION AND ANALYSIS OF DEVICE GENERALLY DOES NOT ASSIST ALLERGAN IN DETERMINING A PROBABLE CAUSE FOR THESE EVENTS. FURTHER INFO FROM THE RPTR REGARDING SERIAL NUMBER AND IMPLANT DATE HAS BEEN REQUESTED. DEVICE LABELING ADDRESSES THE POSSIBLE OUTCOME OF BAND SLIPPAGE AS FOLLOWS: "OVER DISSECTION OF THE STOMACH DURING PLACEMENT MAY RESULT IN SLIPPAGE OR EROSION OF THE BAND AND REQUIRE REOPERATION." "THE DISSECTION SHOULD BE THE SAME SIZE AS THE BAND OR EVEN SMALLER TO REDUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF BAND AND/OR STOMACH SLIPPAGE."

    Description of Event or Problem · 1

    REPORTED AS: "FROM 2000 TO 2007, 29 CONSECUTIVE PTS UNDERWENT LAPAROSCOPIC DE-REBANDING FOR SLIPPAGE WITH POUCH DILATION. TWENTY-EIGHT HAD PREVIOUS LAPAROSCOPIC ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BANDING (LAGB), WHILE ONE HAD PREVIOUS OPEN GASTRIC BANDING, THE PERIGASTRIC TECHNIQUE BEING USED AT THAT TIME. ALL THE BANDS (9.75-MM LAP-BAND, ALLERGAN) WERE POSITIONED VIA A "PERIGASTRIC" APPROACH." FROM LITERATURE REVIEW: JOURNAL ARTICLE "LAPAROSCOPIC GASTRIC REBANDING FOR SLIPPAGE WITH POUCH DILATION: RESULTS ON 29 CONSECUTIVE PTS", MIRTO FOLETTO, PAOLO BERNANTE, LUCA BUSETTO, FABIO POMERRI, GIANLUCA VECCHIATO, LUCA PREVEDELLO, STEFANIA FAMENGO, DONATO NITTI, CLINICA CHIRURGICA II, PADUA UNIVERSITY, PADOVA, ITALY; PUBLISHED IN "OBES SURG 2008" SPRINGER SCIENCE.

    Devices

    Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
    1 LAP-BAND ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BANDING SYSTEM 9.75CM DEVICE FOR TREATMENT OF MORBID OBESITY LTI BIOENTRICS CORP. NA NI

    Patients

    Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
    1 NI Required Intervention