FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

JOSTENT GRAFTMASTER

MDR report key: 689736 · Received March 16, 2006

Report

Report Number
9616290-2006-00014
Event Type
Injury
Date Received
March 16, 2006
Date of Event
February 13, 2006
Report Date
February 15, 2006
Manufacturer
ABBOTT VASCULAR INSTRUMENTS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
Product Code
MAF
Removal / Correction Number
NA
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
JA
Reporter Occupation
PHYSICIAN

Narratives

Description of Event or Problem · 1

ON 02/13/2006, THE PATIENT COMPLAINED OF CHEST PAIN AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ACUT MYOCARDIAL INFARCATION (MI). REPORTEDLY , THREE MONTH LATER A GRAFTMASTER STENT GRAFT WAS USED FOR A PERFORATION IN THE 'LCX" (LEFT CIRCUMFLEX) DISTAL DUE TO HEMOSTASIS." SINCE THE IMPLANTATION OF THE GRAFTMASTER STENT, IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE "PATIENTS CONDITION HAD BEEN WELL AND THERE HAS BEEN NO PARTICULAR FOLLOW-UP PRIOR TO THIS EVENT." IT WAS ALSO NOTED THAT THE PATIENT DECIDED TO STOP TAKING THE PRESCRIBED ANTI-PLATELET AGENTS ONE(1) MONTH PRIOR TO THIS EPISODE. ON 02/13/2006, AN ANGIOGRAM WAS PERFORMED WHICH REVEALED: " AN OCCLUSION DUE TO THROMBOSIS AROUND THE PROXIMAL EDGE OF THE IMPLANTED GRAFTMASTER IN THE DISTAL CIRCUMFLEX (DCS). A "THROMBECTOMY WITH CATHETER" WAS PERFORMED TO TREAT THE OCCLUSION. REPORTEDLY, "THE PATIENT'S CORONARY BLOOD FLOW MADE A RECOVERY AND THE PROCEDURE WENT WELL," IT IS UNKNOWN HOW LONG THE PATIENT STAYED IN THE HOSPITAL DURING THIS EVENT OR WHAT HIS PRESENT STATUS IS.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
1 JOSTENT GRAFTMASTER CORONARY STENT MAF ABBOTT VASCULAR INSTRUMENTS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH NA 228768

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 49 YR Hospitalization| L| R