Description of Event or Problem · 1
THIS IS A SPONTANEOUS CASE REPORT REC'D FROM A REGULATORY AUTHORITY (CASE# (B)(4)) IN (B)(6) ON (B)(6) 2014 WHICH REFERS TO A (B)(6) OLD FEMALE PATIENT WHO HAD ESSURE (FALLOPIAN TUBE OCCLUSION INSERT) INSERTED AND EXPERIENCED MIGRATION OF ONE DEVICE IN THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY AND PART OF THE SPRING WAS MISSING ON THIS EXPLANTED DEVICE. NO INFO WAS GIVEN ON THE PATIENT'S HISTORY, PAST DRUGS, CONCURRENT CONDITIONS OR CONCOMITANT MEDICATION. ON (B)(6) 2013 THE PATIENT HAD ESSURE (FALLOPIAN TUBE OCCLUSION INSERT) INSERTED; THE LOT NUMBER B26271 WAS PROVIDED. SHE PRESENTED WITH ABDOMINAL PAIN AND ON (B)(6) 2014, THE RIGHT DEVICE WAS FOUND TO HAVE MIGRATED INTO THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY (IT WAS PLACED ON THE SIGMOID OPPOSITE TO THE UTERUS - A RISK OF RECTUM PERFORATION WAS REPORTED BY THE SURGEON). BOTH DEVICES WERE REMOVED, THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY WAS EXTENSIVELY WASHED AND A BILATERAL SALPINGECTOMY WAS PERFORMED. THE SURGEON NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A PART OF THE COIL MISSING IN THE EXPLANTED DEVICE. THERE WERE NO CLINICAL CONSEQUENCES TO THE PATIENT AND SHE HAD NO COMPLICATIONS POSTOPERATIVELY. THE REPORTER'S CAUSALITY WAS NOT PROVIDED.