FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

INFUSE BONE GRAFT

MDR report key: 3140604 · Received May 31, 2013

Report

Report Number
1030489-2013-02039
Event Type
Injury
Date Received
May 31, 2013
Report Date
May 3, 2013
Manufacturer
MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA, INC
Product Code
NEK
PMA / PMN Number
P000058
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
AL, US
Reporter Occupation
ATTORNEY

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

(B)(6). (B)(4). NEITHER THE DEVICE NOR FILMS OF APPLICABLE IMAGING STUDIES WERE RETURNED TO THE MANUFACTURER FOR EVALUATION. THEREFORE, WE ARE UNABLE TO DETERMINE THE DEFINITIVE CAUSE OF THE REPORTED EVENT. PRODUCTS FROM MULTIPLE MANUFACTURERS WERE IMPLANTED DURING THE PROCEDURE. ALTHOUGH IT IS UNKNOWN IF ANY OF THE DEVICES CONTRIBUTED TO THE REPORTED EVENT, WE ARE FILING THIS MDR FOR NOTIFICATION PURPOSES.

Description of Event or Problem · 1

ON (B)(6) 2007 PATIENT PRESENTS WITH LOW BACK PAIN, LUMBAGO WITH LOWER EXTREMITY RADICULOPATHY. ON (B)(6) 2007 L1-S1 LUMBAR PROVOCATIVE DISCOGRAPHY AND EPIDURAL INJECTIONS AT L1-S1 (B)(6) 2007 SURGERY: L4-S1 POSTEROLATERAL ARTHRODESIS, LAMINECTOMY AND FORAMINOTOMY, FACETECTOMY AND DECOMPRESSION (TLIF). FRONTAL AND LATERAL VIEW OF LUMBAR SPINE WITH PEDICLE SCREWS FUSING SEGMENTS FROM L4-S1. ON (B)(6) 2007 FOLLOW-UP FUSION / FOUR VIEWS OF LUMBAR SPINE L4-S1. ¿STABLE FUSION¿ EVIDENT. ON (B)(6) 2008 FOLLOW-UP FUSION / FOUR VIEWS OF LUMBAR SPINE L4-S1. ¿STABLE FUSION¿ EVIDENT. ON (B)(6) 2008 PAIN IN LOWER BACK. DISC SPACE NARROWING EVIDENT ON X-RAYS, MOST SEVERE AT L3-4 AND L4-5, CONSISTENT WITH DDD. ON (B)(6) 2008 FOUR VIEW X-RAYS OF LUMBAR SPINE. DISC HEIGHT LOSS AT L3-4. %MM POSTERIOR SUBLUXATION ON L2 ON L3 IS NOTED WITH SLIGHT NARROWING OF THE POSTERIOR ASPECT OF THAT DISC SPACE. SMALL ENDPLATE OSTEOPHYTES THROUGHOUT LUMBAR SPINE. ON (B)(6) 2008 BONE DENSITOMETRY, FINDINGS: OSTEOPENIA. CT SCAN, ¿AREAS OF LUCENCY MOST LIKELY RELATED TO THE USE OF BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN¿; LYTIC CHANGES IN L4 FACET; L4-5 NARROWING OF LEFT NEURAL FORAMEN; LUCENT CHANGES ERODED LEFT FACET JOINTS. MRI LUMBAR SPINE, ¿CENTRAL CANAL AND NEURAL FORAMINAL STENOSIS¿. ON (B)(6) 2009 X-RAYS, ¿INTERVAL REMOVAL OF PEDICLE SCREWS IN L4, L5 AND S1 LEVELS.¿ PATIENT ADMITTED INTO HOSPITAL FOR ¿FAILED BACK SYNDROME¿ AND SYMPTOMS SECONDARY TO DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE AND ¿L5-S1 PSEUDOARTHROSIS WITH POSTERIOR HARDWARE FAILURE.¿ DECOMPRESSION SURGERY (REVISION) OF L4-5 AND L5-S1 PERFORMED USING ¿BIOMECHANICAL SYNTHETIC CAGE AS WELL AS DEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX, BETA TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE AS WELL AS PRODUCTS OF AUTO GRAFT AND ALLOGRAFT. EXPLORATION AND REIMPLANTATION OF POSTERIOR HARDWARE W/ DECOMPRESSION OF FORAMEN AND CENTRAL CANAL.¿ ON (B)(6) 2009 PATIENT DISCHARGED. ON (B)(6) 2009 X-RAYS LUMBAR SPINE (B)(6) 2009 X-RAYS LUMBAR SPINE SHOW ¿STABLE FUSION¿ (B)(6)2009 X-RAYS LUMBAR SPINE ¿OVERALL STABLE LUMBAR SPINAL FUSION.¿

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
241011 INFUSE BONE GRAFT FILLER, RECOMBINANT HUMAN BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN, COLLAGEN SCAFFOLD WITH MET NEK MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA, INC NA M110606AAD

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 Required Intervention