FDA Adverse Event Death Summary report: N

ENDURANT ILIAC STENT GRAFT SYSTEM

MDR report key: 2032684 · Received March 25, 2011

Report

Report Number
2953200-2011-00703
Event Type
Death
Date Received
March 25, 2011
Date of Event
February 23, 2011
Report Date
February 23, 2011
Manufacturer
MEDTRONIC IRELAND
Product Code
MIH
PMA / PMN Number
P100021
Removal / Correction Number
NA
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
MO, US
Reporter Occupation
PHYSICIAN

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

(B(4). EVALUATION RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: DEATH, SEVERE STENOSIS, VERY DISEASED ARTERIES, A VERY FRAGILE RIGHT ILIAC ARTERY WITH APPROXIMATELY 360 DEGREES OF CALCIUM, HEAVILY CALCIFIED BILATERAL HYPOGASTRIC ARTERIES WITH AN OCCLUSION IN THE LEFT.

Description of Event or Problem · 1

AN ENDURANT STENT GRAFT SYSTEM WAS IMPLANTED IN A PATIENT FOR THE ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF A 5.7 MM DIAMETER ABDOMINAL ANEURYSM, A 4 CM DIAMETER RIGHT ILIAC ANEURYSM WITH 3.4 CM LENGTH, AND A 2.8 CM DIAMETER LEFT ILIAC ANEURYSM WITH A 4 CM LENGTH, ONE MONTH AGO. (REFERENCE FILE # 2953200-2011-00702, 2953200-2011-00704 AND 2953200-2011-00705). VESSEL MORPHOLOGY WAS REPORTED AS A VERY LARGE TORTUOUS AORTA WITH SEVERE STENOSIS; VERY DISEASED ARTERIES; A VERY FRAGILE RIGHT ILIAC ARTERY WITH APPROXIMATELY 360 DEGREES OF CALCIUM; HEAVY CALCIFIED BILATERAL HYPOGASTRIC ARTERIES WITH AN OCCLUSION IN THE LEFT. THE PATIENT TOLERATED THE ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURE WELL AND THERE WAS EXCELLENT FLOW DISTALLY BILATERALLY. THE FEET WERE WARM WITH EXCELLENT CAPILLARY REFILL. TWO DAYS POST-IMPLANTATION, THE PATIENT HAD POOR DISTAL OUTFLOW AND ISCHEMIA OF THE RIGHT AND LEFT LEG, NECESSITATING A RIGHT ABOVE-KNEE AMPUTATION. THE OPERATIVE REPORT DOCUMENTS THAT THE PATIENT HAD DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION, SEVERE SEPSIS, ACIDOSIS, MULTISYSTEM ORGAN FAILURE, AND BILATERAL LEG ISCHEMIA. THE PATIENT EXPIRED THREE DAYS AFTER IMPLANT. THE PHYSICIAN STATED THAT THIS PATIENT HAD SEVERE CLAUDICATION, AND PROBABLY NEEDED A FEMORAL-POPLITEAL BYPASS ALONG WITH THE STENT GRAFT IMPLANTATION. HE ALSO STATED THAT THE PATIENT'S ISCHEMIC LEG PROBABLY LED TO THE MULTISYSTEM ORGAN FAILURE.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
1 ENDURANT ILIAC STENT GRAFT SYSTEM MIH MEDTRONIC IRELAND NA V00829359

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 78 YR Death