Description of Event or Problem · 1
THIS SPONTANEOUS CASE WAS RECEIVED ON (B)(6)-2014 FROM A PHYSICIAN AND CONCERNS A (B)(6) FEMALE PATIENT. THE PATIENT'S MEDICAL HISTORY AND CONCOMITANT MEDICATIONS WERE NOT REPORTED. ON (B)(6)-2014, THE PATIENT STARTED TREATMENT WITH RESTYLANE L (CROSS-LINKED HYALURONIC ACID DERMAL FILLER WITH 0.3% LIDOCAINE) INJECTIONS, IN HER NASOLABIAL FOLDS (0.3 CC IN EACH FOLD), AND BROWS (0.2 CC IN EACH BROW) FOR DERMAL FILLING. THE PRODUCT LOT NUMBER WAS 11383. EXPIRATION DATE WAS LISTED AS 11/14. SOMETIME IN (B)(6) OF 2014, THE PATIENT DEVELOPED A HUGE GRANULOMA REACTION, BILATERALLY. THE GRANULOMA HAS BEEN TREATED WITH 5-FU (5-FLUOROURACIL) AND STEROID INFECTIONS (KENALOG), AND THUS THE GRANULOMA IS MUCH BETTER THAN BEFORE. IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE PATIENT HAS HAD RESTYLANE L AND JUVEDERM (CROSS-LINKED HYALURONIC ACID) BEFORE, WITH NO PROBLEM. THE REPORTER DID NOT PROVIDE A CAUSALITY ASSESSMENT. NO FURTHER INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE AT THE TIME OF THIS REPORT. FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES THIS CASE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED THE FOLLOWING TRACKING NUMBERS: (B)(4).