FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

ENDURANT ILIAC STENT GRAFT

MDR report key: 2160632 · Received July 6, 2011

Report

Report Number
2953200-2011-01244
Event Type
Injury
Date Received
July 6, 2011
Date of Event
June 6, 2011
Report Date
June 6, 2011
Manufacturer
MEDTRONIC CARDIOVASCULAR IRELAND
Product Code
MIH
PMA / PMN Number
P100021
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
AS
Reporter Occupation
PHYSICIAN

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

(B)(4). EVALUATION, RESULTS: (ARTERIAL OCCLUSION). (A TORTUOUS AORTA). CONCLUSION: (A TORTUOUS AORTA).

Description of Event or Problem · 1

AN ENDURANT ABDOMINAL STENT GRAFT SYSTEM WAS IMPLANTED IN A PATIENT FOR THE ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF AN ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM TWO MONTHS AGO. THE ILIAC ARTERIES HAD MODERATE TORTUOSITY AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF CALCIFICATION. IT WAS REPORTED THAT AN AUI DEVICE WAS PLANNED AS THE PATIENT ALREADY HAD A FEMORAL TO FEMORAL CROSSOVER IN SITU. THE LEFT INTERNAL ILIAC WAS EMBOLIZED SUCCESSFULLY PRIOR TO ENDURANT AUI PLACEMENT (REF MFR 2953200-2011-01242). TWO ILIAC LIMBS WERE ALSO IMPLANTED (REF MFR 2953200-2011-01243). THERE WERE NO COMPLICATIONS DURING PROCEDURE. A SMALL BLUSH WAS NOTED AT FINAL ANGIOGRAPHY RUN. THE SURGEON DECIDED TO REVIEW THE BLUSH AT THE POST-OPERATIVE VISIT. THE POST-OPERATIVE CT CONFIRMED THAT THE BLUSH WAS RESOLVED. ONE MONTH AGO, THE PATIENT PRESENTED WITH AN OCCLUDED STENT GRAFT. THE PATIENT WAS ON WARFARIN FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, THEREFORE, NO CAUSE FOR THE OCCLUSION COULD BE IDENTIFIED; HOWEVER, A PROXIMAL CLOT FROM A TORTUOUS AORTA WAS SUSPECTED. THE PATIENT HAS HAD AN AXILLO-FEMORAL BYPASS AND WAS DISCHARGED. NO ADDITIONAL CLINICAL SEQUELAE WERE REPORTED AND THE PATIENT IS FINE. AN INTERNAL REVIEW OF RETURNED FILMS AT IMPLANT SHOW A LIKELY TYPE IV ENDOLEAK SEEN ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STENT GRAFT NEAR THE MID-LENGTH OF THE AUI MAIN BODY. THE ILIAC APPEARED NON-ANGULATED AND PATENT. FILMS POST-IMPLANT SHOW AN OCCLUDED STENT GRAFT BEGINNING AT THE PROXIMAL GRAFT MARGIN AND CONTINUING DISTALLY WITHIN ALL THE DEVICES. THE DISTAL ILIAC MEASURED AN APPROXIMATELY 11-12 MM DIAMETER AND THERE DID NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY KINKING OR CRUSHING ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE STENT GRAFT.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
1 ENDURANT ILIAC STENT GRAFT MIH MEDTRONIC CARDIOVASCULAR IRELAND NA V00854645

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 UNK Required Intervention