FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

GYNECARE TVT SECUR SYSTEM

MDR report key: 3232609 · Received July 18, 2013

Report

Report Number
2210968-2013-13578
Event Type
Injury
Date Received
July 18, 2013
Report Date
July 1, 2013
Manufacturer
ETHICON INC.
Product Code
PAH
PMA / PMN Number
K052401
Removal / Correction Number
NA
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
NJ, US
Reporter Occupation
OTHER

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

(B)(4). CONCLUSION: NO CONCLUSION CAN BE DRAWN AT THIS TIME. SHOULD ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BE OBTAINED, A SUPPLEMENTAL 3500A FORM WILL BE SUBMITTED ACCORDINGLY.

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

(B)(6). IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE PATIENT UNDERWENT A GYNECOLOGICAL PROCEDURE AND MESH WAS IMPLANTED CONCURRENTLY WITH AN ABDOMINAL SUPRACERVICAL HYSTERECTOMY AND RIGHT OVARIAN CYSTECTOMY DUE TO STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE. THE PATIENT UNDERWENT MESH REVISION/REMOVAL ON (B)(6) 2010 DUE TO URETHRAL MESH EROSION. IT WAS REPORTED THAT FOLLOWING INSERTION THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED PAIN, EROSION, EXTRUSION, INFECTION, URINARY/BOWEL PROBLEMS, ORGAN PERFORATION, FISTULAE, RECURRENCE, BLEEDING, DYSPAREUNIA, NEUROMUSCULAR PROBLEMS AND VAGINAL SCARRING. THE PATIENT UNDERWENT MESH REMOVAL, CYSTOSCOPY, REMOVAL OF FOREIGN BODY FROM URETHRA AND BLADDER AND URETHROLYSIS ON 09/28/2010 DUE TO MESH EROSION INTO URETHRA AND BLADDER. (B)(4).

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

IN ADDITION, A REVIEW OF THE BATCH MANUFACTURING RECORDS WAS CONDUCTED AND THE BATCH MET ALL FINISHED GOODS RELEASE CRITERIA.

Description of Event or Problem · 1

IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE PATIENT UNDERWENT A GYNECOLOGICAL PROCEDURE ON (B)(6) 2007 AND MESH WAS IMPLANTED INTO THE PATIENT. IT IS ALSO REPORTED THAT THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED PAIN, EROSION OF INTERNAL TISSUES, AND HAS UNDERGONE ADDITIONAL SURGERIES AND REVISIONARY PROCEDURES. NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AT THIS TIME.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
333807 GYNECARE TVT SECUR SYSTEM MESH, SURGICAL, SYNTHETIC, UROGYNECOLOGIC PAH ETHICON INC. UNK 3016732

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 Required Intervention