BEUDAMED
    FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

    COREVALVE TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE

    MDR report key: 18293173 · Received December 8, 2023

    Report

    Report Number
    2025587-2023-05129
    Event Type
    Injury
    Date Received
    December 8, 2023
    Date of Event
    November 24, 2023
    Report Date
    December 8, 2023
    Manufacturer
    MEDTRONIC HEART VALVES DIVISION
    Product Code
    NPT
    UDI-DI
    00643169448551
    PMA / PMN Number
    P130021
    Adverse Event
    Yes
    Report Source
    Manufacturer report
    Reporter Location
    CA, US
    Reporter Occupation
    PHYSICIAN
    Health Professional
    Yes

    Narratives

    Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 0

    PE 701171206 RR 2025587-2016-00014 - H10: REGULATORY REPORT 2025587-2016-00014 WAS IDENTIFIED AS A DUPLICATE EVENT TO THIS REGULATOR Y REPORT. NEW INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED. CONTINUATION OF D10: PRODUCT ID MCS-P3-31-AOA-US (SERIAL: (B)(6)); PRODUCT TYPE: 0195-HEART VALVES; IMPLANT DATE (B)(6) 2015. MEDTRONIC IS SUBMITTING THIS REPORT TO COMPLY WITH FDA REPORTING REGULATIONS UNDER 21 CFR PARTS 4 AND 803. THIS REPORT IS BASED UPON INFORMATION OBTAINED BY MEDTRONIC, WHICH THE COMPANY MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FULLY INVESTIGATE OR VERIFY PRIOR TO THE DATE THE REPORT WAS REQUIRED BY THE FDA. MEDTRONIC HAS MADE REASONABLE EFFORTS TO OBTAIN MORE COMPLETE INFORMATION AND HAS PROVIDED AS MUCH RELEVANT INFORMATION AS IS AVAILABLE TO THE COMPANY AS OF THE SUBMISSION DATE OF THIS REPORT. THIS REPORT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN ADMISSION OR A CONCLUSION BY FDA, MEDTRONIC, OR ITS EMPLOYEES THAT THE DEVICE, MEDTRONIC, OR ITS EMPLOYEE CAUSED OR CONTRIBUTED TO THE EVENT DESCRIBED IN THE REPORT. IN PARTICULAR, THIS REPORT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN ADMISSION BY ANYONE THAT THE PRODUCT DESCRIBED IN THIS REPORT HAS ANY ¿DEFECTS¿ OR HAS ¿MALFUNCTIONED¿. THESE WORDS ARE INCLUDED IN THE FDA 3500A FORM AND ARE FIXED ITEMS FOR SELECTION CREATED BY THE FDA TO CATEGORIZE THE TYPE OF EVENT SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF REGULATORY REPORTING. MEDTRONIC OBJECTS TO THE USE OF THESE WORDS AND OTHERS LIKE THEM BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF DEFINITION AND THE CONNOTATIONS IMPLIED BY THESE TERMS. THIS STATEMENT SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITH ANY INFORMATION OR REPORT DISCLOSED TO THE PUBLIC UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT. ANY REQUIRED FIELDS THAT ARE UNPOPULATED ARE BLANK BECAUSE THE INFORMATION IS CURRENTLY UNKNOWN OR UNAVAILABLE. A GOOD FAITH EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO OBTAIN THE APPLICABLE INFORMATION RELEVANT TO THE REPORT. IF INFORMATION IS PROVIDED IN THE FUTURE, A SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT WILL BE ISSUED.

    Description of Event or Problem · 0

    MEDTRONIC RECEIVED INFORMATION THAT APPROXIMATELY 7 YEARS, 11 AND A HALF MONTHS FOLLOWING THE IMPLANT OF THIS TRANSCATHETER BIOPROSTHETIC VALVE, THE PATIENT PRESENTED TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT WITH COMPLAINT OF SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND FATIGUE. DIAGNOSTIC TESTING INCLUDED A SCHEDULED NON-CONTRAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND A TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAM TO RULE OUT STENOSIS AND THROMBOSIS OF THE DISLODGED VALVE. REVIEW OF THE TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAM SHOWED LT VENTRICLE: MODERATE CONCENTRIC HYPERTROPHY. ESTIMATED EJECTION FRACTION WAS (B)(4). VENTRICULAR PACING FROM THE PERMANENT PACEMAKER. LEFT ATRIUM: SEVERELY DILATED. RT ATRIUM: MODERATELY DILATED. MILD TRICUSPID REGURGITATION. TRIVIAL MITRAL REGURGITATION. TRANSVALVULAR VELOCITY WAS WITHIN NORMAL VALVE LIMITS. THE AORTIC VALVE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION WERE NORMAL, NO EVIDENCE OF STENOSIS; THERE WAS NO VALVULAR INSUFFICIENCY OR PARAVALVULAR LEAK. LABORATORY RESULTS FROM BLOOD TESTS SHOWED THE WHITE BLOOD CELL (WBC) COUNT, BLOOD UREA NITROGEN (BUN), CREATININE, ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE (AST), INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO (INR), CREATINE KINASE (CK), AND TROPONIN WERE ABOVE NORMAL LIMITS AT ADMISSION. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE PATIENT WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ACUTE-ON-CHRONIC DIASTOLIC CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE (CHF) AND WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL. OF NOTE, CHF WAS EXISTING PRIOR TO THE VALVE IMPLANT PROCEDURE. HYPERTENSION WAS NOTED. AT DISCHARGE, CREATININE, WBC, AND CK SHOWED DECLINE; HOWEVER, THE BUN CONTINUED TO INCREASE. NO INTERVENTION OR TREATMENT WAS PROVIDED; THE PATIENT WAS DISCHARGED TO A POST-ACUTE REHA BILIATION CENTER WITH RECOMMENDATION TO CONTINUE WITH THE EXISTING MEDICAL THERAPY AS OUTLINED BY INTERNAL MEDICINE. NO ADDITIONAL ADVERSE PATIENT EFFECTS WERE REPORTED.

    Devices

    Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
    1830925 COREVALVE TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE AORTIC VALVE, PROSTHESIS, PERCUTANEOUSLY DELIV NPT MEDTRONIC HEART VALVES DIVISION MCS-P3-31-AOA-US 00643169448551

    Patients

    Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
    1 92 YR Female Hospitalization SEE H10.