FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

GORE EXCLUDER AAA ENDOPROSTHESIS

MDR report key: 2211277 · Received August 3, 2011

Report

Report Number
2953161-2011-00172
Event Type
Injury
Date Received
August 3, 2011
Date of Event
December 29, 2009
Report Date
August 2, 2011
Manufacturer
W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES
Product Code
MIH
PMA / PMN Number
P020004
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
NC, US
Reporter Occupation
PHYSICIAN

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

A REVIEW OF THE MFG PAPERWORK HAS BEEN CONDUCTED. THE REVIEW OF THE MFG PAPERWORK VERIFIED THAT THIS LOT MET ALL PRE-RELEASE SPECS. (B)(4).

Description of Event or Problem · 1

ON (B)(6) 2008, THE PT WAS IMPLANTED WITH TWO GORE EXCLUDER AAA ENDOPROSTHESES FOR TREATMENT OF AN INFRARENAL AORTIC ANEURYSM. ON (B)(6) 2008, CT REVEALED A TYPE II ENDOLEAK. ON (B)(6) 2009, THE PT UNDERWENT AN INTERVENTION TO COIL THE TYPE II ENDOLEAK. THERE WERE FOUR LUMBAR ARTERIES AND THE IMA FILLING THE SAC. ONYX GLUE WAS INJECTED INTO THE SAC. COILS WERE ALSO PLACED. POST OPERATIVE CT SHOWED CONTINUED SAC EXPANSION. ON (B)(6) 2011, THE PT UNDERWENT OPEN CONVERSION. THE PROXIMAL 7 CM'S OF THE GORE EXCLUDER AAA ENDOPROSTHESIS WAS REMOVED BY SLIDING THE CONTRA LIMB OUT OF THE GATE AND CUTTING THE IPSILATERAL LIMB AT THE LEVEL OF THE CONTRALATERAL GATE. THE PHYSICIAN TIED OFF THE LIMBS OF THE ENDOGRAFT THAT REMAINED AND PERFORMED AN AORTOBI ILIAC BYPASS GRAFT WITH A DACRON BIFURCATED GRAFT SEWING THE DISTAL LIMBS OF THE DACRON GRAFT DISTAL TO THE LIMBS OF THE PREVIOUSLY IMPLANTED GORE EXCLUDER AAA ENDOPROSTHESIS DEVICE. THE PT TOLERATED THE PROCEDURE.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
1 GORE EXCLUDER AAA ENDOPROSTHESIS MIH / SYSTEM, ENDOVASCULAR GRAFT, AORTIC ANEURYSM TREATMENT MIH W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES WLG325 05209201

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 78 YR Hospitalization| R PREDNISONE| SIMVASTATIN| ASA| IRON