FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

INFUSE BONE GRAFT DEVICE (RHBMP-2)

MDR report key: 3080390 · Received April 23, 2013

Report

Report Number
MW5029927
Event Type
Injury
Date Received
April 23, 2013
Date of Event
May 5, 2010
Report Date
March 31, 2013
Manufacturer
MEDTRONIC INC
Product Code
NEK
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Voluntary report
Reporter Location
CO, US
Reporter Occupation
PATIENT

Narratives

Description of Event or Problem · 1

HETEROTROPIC BONE GROWTH WITH LEFT LEG RADICULITIS AND LEFT FOOT NUMBNESS. MODERATE LEFT FORAMINAL STENOSIS DUE TO HETEROTOPIC BONE EXTENDING FROM THE POSTERIOR MARGIN OF THE DISC TO THE FACET JOINT. PROCEDURE: OPEN EXPLORATION OF HARDWARE WITH NO EVIDENCE OF HARDWARE FAILURE, POSTERIOR LATERAL FUSION, L5-S1 USING DEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX, REMOVAL OF TWO CAP SCREWS, LEFT L5-S1. SURGERY WAS PERFORMED UNDER LOCAL ANESTHESIA. "I IDENTIFIED THE TORQUE SCREW TOPS, BUT THE CAP SCREWS WERE STILL INTACT AND THE HARDWARE WAS COMPLETELY SOLID." DISSECTED LATERALLY AND DECORTICATED THE LATERAL MASSES FROM THE TRANSVERSE PROCESSES AND LATERAL FACET JOINTS AT L5-S1 ON THE LEFT AND LAMINA ON THE RIGHT OF L5-S1. I THEN PULLED EVO3 DBM ONTO THE LAMINAR BONE ON THE RIGHT AND TRANSVERSE PROCESSES ON THE LEFT. THE WOUND WAS IRRIGATED AND THE INCISION WAS CLOSED. "ALL COUNTS WERE CORRECT AT THE END OF THE CASE." ON (B)(6) 2010 - SURGICAL CONSENT FOR "RE-DO FUSION, INSTRUMENTATION, L5-S1." THE REASON FOR THE SURGERY IS "NONUNION, HARDWARE FAILURE." CONSENT SIGNED BY THE PT AND DOCTOR. ON (B)(6) 2012 CT LUMBAR SPINE POST-MYELOGRAPHY WITH REFORMATION (HETEROTOPIC BONE GROWTH). ON (B)(6) 2010 - SURGICAL REPORT.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
174401 INFUSE BONE GRAFT DEVICE (RHBMP-2) INFUSE NEK MEDTRONIC INC

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 46 YR Required Intervention| S