FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

PROMUS EVEROLIMUS ELUTING CORONARY STENT SYSTEM

MDR report key: 1822455 · Received August 26, 2010

Report

Report Number
2024168-2010-01765
Event Type
Injury
Date Received
August 26, 2010
Date of Event
July 30, 2010
Report Date
August 4, 2010
Manufacturer
ABBOTT VASCULAR-CARDIAC THERAPIES
Product Code
NIQ
PMA / PMN Number
P070015
Removal / Correction Number
NA
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
GA, US
Reporter Occupation
PHYSICIAN

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

(B)(4). THE CUSTOMER REPORTED THE DEVICE WAS DISCARDED. A FOLLOW-UP WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH ANY RELEVANT INFO.

Description of Event or Problem · 1

DEVICE ISSUE: STENT DISLODGEMENT. TIME OF DEVICE ISSUE: DURING THE PROCEDURE. ADVERSE EVENT: MEDICAL/SURGICAL INTERVENTION. ONSET OF ADVERSE EVENT: DURING THE PROCEDURE. IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING A RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY (RCA) INTERVENTION OF AN ANGULATED VESSEL THAT WAS HIGHLY CALCIFIED, PRIMARY STENTING WITH A 3.0X12 PROMUS WAS ATTEMPTED WITHOUT PREDILATATION; HOWEVER, THE PROMUS DID NOT CROSS. THERE WAS DIFFICULTY ADVANCING TO THE LESION DUE TO RESISTANCE. THE DEVICE WAS TAKEN OUT AND A 3.0X8 PROMUS WAS ADVANCED. EXCESSIVE FORCE WAS APPLIED IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET THE DEVICE TO CROSS THE LESION AND THE STENT MIGRATED OFF THE BALLOON, ALTHOUGH THE STENT DID NOT MOVE IN THE BODY ONCE IT DISLODGED. MULTIPLE TECHNIQUES WERE ATTEMPTED TO RETRIEVE THE STENT OFF THE GUIDE WIRE INCLUDING AN ATTEMPT TO PULL THE DEVICE BACK INTO THE GUIDE CATHETER AS WELL AS USING A SECOND GUIDE WIRE AND ANOTHER BALLOON; HOWEVER, ALL ATTEMPTS WERE UNSUCCESSFUL AND THE PT WAS SENT FOR SURGERY IN ORDER TO REMOVE THE STENT. YOU ARE RECEIVING THIS MDR REPORT FROM ABBOTT VASCULAR BECAUSE (B)(4) DISTRIBUTES PROMUS AS ITS OWN BRAND LABELING OF ABBOTT VASCULAR'S DRUG ELUTING STENT IN THE US.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
1 PROMUS EVEROLIMUS ELUTING CORONARY STENT SYSTEM NIQ ABBOTT VASCULAR-CARDIAC THERAPIES NA UNK

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 66 YR Hospitalization| R GUIDE CATH: XB RCA GUIDE CATHETER (CORTIS)| GUIDE WIRE: ATW MARKER WIRE (CORTIS)