FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

ENDURANT ABDOMINAL STENT GRAFT SYSTEM

MDR report key: 2974385 · Received February 22, 2013

Report

Report Number
2953200-2013-00330
Event Type
Injury
Date Received
February 22, 2013
Date of Event
February 7, 2012
Report Date
January 29, 2013
Manufacturer
MEDTRONIC IRELAND
Product Code
MIH
PMA / PMN Number
P100021
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
US
Reporter Occupation
PHYSICIAN

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

(B)(4), RESULTS: INHERENT RISK OF PROCEDURE (OCCLUSION, STENT GRAFT KINK); PATIENT'S CONDITION AFFECTED EFFECTIVENESS OF DEVICE (ANATOMY RELATED). CONCLUSION: DEVICE FAILURE/LACK OF EFFECTIVENESS RELATED TO PATIENT CONDITION (ANATOMY RELATED).

Description of Event or Problem · 1

AN ENDURANT STENT GRAFT SYSTEM WAS IMPLANTED IN A PATIENT FOR THE ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF A LEFT ILIAC ANEURYSM APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR AGO. VESSEL MORPHOLOGY FROM THE TIME OF IMPLANT WAS NOT REPORTED. IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE PHYSICIAN WAS CONCERNED ABOUT LIMB POSITION AT THE TIME OF PLACEMENT AND BALLOONED THE AORTIC BIFURCATION. THE PROCEDURE WAS COMPLETED AND NO PROBLEMS WERE NOTED. APPROXIMATELY THREE WEEKS AGO THE PATIENT PRESENTED WITH SIGNIFICANT CLAUDICATION. ANGIOGRAM SHOWED THE LEFT LIMB TO BE KINKED JUST DISTAL TO THE AORTIC BIFURCATION. THE PHYSICIAN TREATED THIS WITH A BALLOON EXPANDABLE BARE METAL STENT. THE PHYSICIAN BELIEVES THE EVENT WAS DUE TO THE PATIENT'S ANATOMY, AND ASSESSED THE EVENT TO NOT BE DEVICE RELATED. THE ANGIOGRAM ALSO SHOWED DEVELOPMENT OF MURAL THROMBUS IN THE RIGHT EXTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY THAT EXTENDED INTO THE DISTAL PORTION OF THE RIGHT LIMB OF THE STENT GRAFT. AS THE PATIENT WAS RECOVERING FROM AN UNRELATED SURGERY; THE PHYSICIAN PLANS TO TREAT THE PATIENT FOR THIS AT A LATER DATE TO EXCLUDE THROMBUS IN THIS AREA. NO FURTHER INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
78188 ENDURANT ABDOMINAL STENT GRAFT SYSTEM SYSTEM, ENDOVASCULAR GRAFT, AORTIC ANEURYSM TREATMENT MIH MEDTRONIC IRELAND V01001216

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 00070 YR Required Intervention