FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

INFUSE BONE GRAFT

MDR report key: 3970516 · Received July 31, 2014

Report

Report Number
1030489-2014-03375
Event Type
Injury
Date Received
July 31, 2014
Report Date
July 6, 2015
Manufacturer
MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA, INC
Product Code
NEK
PMA / PMN Number
P000058
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
LA, US
Reporter Occupation
ATTORNEY

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

(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

IT WAS REPORTED THAT ON (B)(96) 2004 THE PATIENT PRESENTED WITH PRE-OP DIAGNOSES OF CERVICAL SPONDYLITIC MYELOPATHY AND RADICULOPATHY. THE PATIENT UNDERWENT ANTERIOR POSTERIOR PARTIAL VERTEBRECTOMY C3, C4,; C5 AND C6, COMPLETE DISCECTOMY C3-C4, C4-C5, C5-C6, INTERBODY FUSION USING IMPLANT WITH BMP AND LOCAL BONE SOURCE, USING ANTERIOR PLATE AT C3-C6, SELECTIVE MICRO-DISSECTION TECHNIQUE, INTRAOPERATIVE FLUOROSCOPY. PER OP NOTES, ANTERIOR OSTEOPHYTES FROM C3-C4 DOWN TO C5-C6 WERE REMOVED. THUS, COMPLETE DISCECTOMY WAS CARRIED OUT. THEN USING INTRAOPERATIVE MAGNIFICATION MICROSCOPE, INTRAOPERATIVE FLUOROSCOPY, AND HIGH-SPEED DRILL, PARTIAL VERTEBRECTOMIES WERE PERFORMED ON EITHER SIDE OF EACH DISC SPACE. AFTER COMPLETE REMOVAL OF POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT, POSTERIOR DISK SPACE, AND FORAMINOTOMIES, DISTRACTION PINS WERE THEN PLACED. APPROPRIATE HYDRASORB RING WAS THEN CHOSEN, PACKED WITH BMP AND LOCAL BONE SOURCE, COUNTERSUNK ONE MILLIMETER. PINS WARE THEN REMOVED AND THE PIN HOLE SITES WERE PACKED WITH GELFOAM. APPROPRIATE PLATE WAS CHOSEN, CONTOURED TO THE SPINE, SECURED BY DRILLING AND USING 15- AND 14-RNM SCREWS, LOCKING NUTS IN THE USUAL FASHION. WOUNDS WERE THEN CLOSED IN USUAL STERILE FASHION. THE PATIENT TOLERATED THE PROCEDURE WELL AND NO PATIENT COMPLICATIONS WERE NOTED. ON (B)(6) 2004 THE PATIENT WAS DISCHARGED.

Description of Event or Problem · 1

IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE PATIENT DEVELOPED UNSPECIFIED INJURIES FOLLOWING THE USE OF RHBMP-2/ACS IN AN UNSPECIFIED SPINAL FUSION SURGERY. NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WAS REPORTED.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
447559 INFUSE BONE GRAFT FILLER, RECOMBINANT HUMAN BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN, COLLAGEN SCAFFOLD WITH MET NEK MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA, INC NA M112003ABB

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 Other