BEUDAMED
    FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

    EDWARDS EXPANDABLE INTRODUCER SHEATH SET

    MDR report key: 4618207 · Received March 19, 2015

    Report

    Report Number
    2015691-2015-00655
    Event Type
    Injury
    Date Received
    March 19, 2015
    Date of Event
    February 23, 2015
    Report Date
    February 23, 2015
    Manufacturer
    EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES
    Product Code
    NPT
    PMA / PMN Number
    P130009
    Adverse Event
    Yes
    Report Source
    Manufacturer report
    Reporter Location
    JA
    Reporter Occupation
    PHYSICIAN

    Narratives

    Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

    ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE (IFU), CARDIOVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS, INCLUDING PERFORATION OR DISSECTION OF VESSELS WHICH MAY REQUIRE INTERVENTION, ARE POTENTIAL ADVERSE EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSFEMORAL TAVR PROCEDURE. ACCORDING TO LITERATURE REVIEW, AND AS DOCUMENTED IN A TECHNICAL SUMMARY WRITTEN BY EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES, VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS ARE A WELL RECOGNIZED COMPLICATION OF THE TRANSFEMORAL TAVR PROCEDURE IN THIS ELDERLY POPULATION WITH MULTIPLE CO-MORBIDITIES. EDWARDS HAS REVIEWED MANY REPORTS, INCLUDING SCREENING DATA RECORDS AND SOURCE DOCUMENTATION OF VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS AND HAS FOUND THAT THE ROOT CAUSE IS TYPICALLY RELATED TO A COMBINATION OF VESSEL SIZE, TORTUOSITY AND CALCIFICATIONS. ALTHOUGH THE INCIDENCE IS DECREASING WITH SMALLER SHEATH/DELIVERY SYSTEM SIZES AND PHYSICIAN EXPERIENCE, THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE CASES IN WHICH VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS WILL OCCUR. THE THV PHYSICIAN TRAINING MANUALS INSTRUCT ON PROCEDURAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR SHEATH INSERTION WITH REGARDS TO PROPER SCREENING CRITICAL TO REDUCING VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS. THE TRAINING MANUAL INSTRUCTS THE OPERATOR ON PROPER SHEATH INSERTION AND WITHDRAWAL TECHNIQUES, INCLUDING PRE-DILATING THE VESSEL WITH THE EDWARDS DILATORS. IT ALSO NOTES THAT CALCIFICATION MAY REDUCE LUMEN DIAMETER AND LIMIT OR PREVENT TRANSFEMORAL PASSAGE OF THE DEVICES. THE IFU CONTRAINDICATES PATIENTS WITH ILIO-FEMORAL VESSEL CHARACTERISTICS THAT WOULD PRECLUDE SAFE PLACEMENT OF SHEATHS SUCH AS SEVERE OBSTRUCTIVE CALCIFICATION OR SEVERE TORTUOSITY. PRE-PROCEDURE SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT OF THE FEMORAL/ILIAC ARTERY INTERNAL DIAMETERS WILL ENABLE THE CLINICIAN TO DETERMINE IF THE SAPIEN XT VALVE CAN BE DELIVERED TRANSFEMORALLY. ASSESSMENT OF LOCATION AND AMOUNT OF CIRCUMFERENTIAL CALCIUM WILL AID IN DETERMINING AREAS OF REDUCED VESSEL DIAMETERS. THE OPERATORS ARE TRAINED TO MEASURE MINIMUM VESSEL DIAMETER TAKING CALCIUM INTO ACCOUNT. THE PHYSICIAN TRAINING MANUAL ALSO LISTS THE MINIMUM RECOMMENDED VESSEL SIZE FOR EACH SIZE DEVICE. DESPITE THE BEST SCREENING TOOLS, A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PATIENTS WILL HAVE FEMORAL/ILIAC VESSELS THAT ARE NOT AMENABLE TO THE TRANS-FEMORAL APPROACH OR WHERE INCREASED RESISTANCE IS ENCOUNTERED DURING INSERTION OF DEVICES. IN MANY CASES, THE VESSEL MINIMUM LUMINAL DIAMETER (MLD) MAY BE BORDERLINE OR BELOW THE INDICATED SIZE. IN ADDITION, SIGNIFICANT CALCIFICATION AND/OR TORTUOSITY, NOT ALWAYS APPRECIABLE ON IMAGING, COULD BE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THE EVENT. THE MINIMUM REQUIRED VESSEL DIAMETER FOR AN 18 FR SHEATH IS 6.5MM. IN THIS CASE, THE CAUSE OF THE REPORTED EIA DISSECTION CANNOT BE DETERMINED. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SOME VESSEL CALCIFICATION AND/OR TORTUOSITY NOT APPRECIABLE ON IMAGING THAT COULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE EVENT. THERE WAS NO ALLEGATION OR INDICATION THAT THE EVENT WAS RELATED TO A MANUFACTURING NON-CONFORMANCE. THE IFU AND TRAINING MANUALS HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AND NO INADEQUACIES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED WITH REGARDS TO WARNINGS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, AND THE DIRECTIONS/CONDITIONS FOR THE SUCCESSFUL USE OF THE DEVICE. COMPLAINT HISTORIES FOR ALL REPORTED EVENTS ARE REVIEWED AGAINST TRENDING CONTROL LIMITS ON A MONTHLY BASIS, AND ANY EXCURSIONS ABOVE THE CONTROL LIMITS ARE ASSESSED AND DOCUMENTED AS PART OF THIS MONTHLY REVIEW. NO CORRECTIVE OR PREVENTATIVE ACTIONS ARE REQUIRED AT THIS TIME.

    Description of Event or Problem · 1

    AS REPORTED BY OUR (B)(4) AFFILIATE, DURING A TRANSFEMORAL TAVR PROCEDURE, SURGICAL CUTDOWN WAS PERFORMED ON THE EXTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY (EIA), DUE TO THE RIGHT FEMORAL ARTERY SEVERE CALCIFICATION. THE 18FR ESHEATH WAS INSERTED WITHOUT RESISTANCE. AFTER THE ESHEATH WAS REMOVED, THE DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY (DSA) SHOWED INTIMAL DETACHMENT INTERRUPTING THE BLOOD FLOW. THE EIA DISSECTION WAS SURGICALLY REPAIRED.THE ACCESS VESSEL MINIMUM LUMINAL DIAMETER (MLD) MEASURED 8.3 MM WITH MODERATE CALCIFICATION AND MILD TORTUOSITY.

    Devices

    Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
    188818 EDWARDS EXPANDABLE INTRODUCER SHEATH SET AORTIC VALVE, PROSTHESIS, PERCUTANEOUSLY DELIVERED NPT EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES 918ES26J 59639178

    Patients

    Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
    1 88 YR Required Intervention