BEUDAMED
    FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

    AIGIS-R MEDIUM

    MDR report key: 7467027 · Received April 26, 2018

    Report

    Report Number
    3005619263-2018-00050
    Event Type
    Injury
    Date Received
    April 26, 2018
    Date of Event
    August 23, 2015
    Report Date
    May 4, 2018
    Manufacturer
    TYRX, INC.
    Product Code
    FTL
    UDI-DI
    00643169468856
    PMA / PMN Number
    K130943
    Adverse Event
    Yes
    Report Source
    Manufacturer report
    Reporter Location
    NC, US
    Reporter Occupation
    ATTORNEY

    Narratives

    Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

    CONTINUATION OF MEDICAL DEVICES: PRODUCT ID 5076-58, 5076-52 IMPLANTED: (B)(6) 2007. THIS EVENT INVOLVES A LEGAL CASE IN PROGRESS OR POTENTIAL LITIGATION. IF FOLLOW-UP WAS REQUIRED, EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. THE PROPRIETARY NATURE OF THE EVENT MAY AFFECT FOLLOW UP EFFORTS. IF ADDITIONAL RELEVANT INFORMATION IS RECEIVED, A SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT WILL BE SUBMITTED. IF INFORMATION IS PROVIDED IN THE FUTURE, A SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT WILL BE ISSUED.

    Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

    IF INFORMATION IS PROVIDED IN THE FUTURE, A SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT WILL BE ISSUED.

    Description of Event or Problem · 1

    IT WAS REPORTED THAT APPROXIMATELY EIGHT DAYS POST IMPLANT OF AN IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR (IPG) THE PATIENT PRESENTED TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT WITH REDNESS, SWELLING, PAIN, AND ERYTHEMA AT THE INCISION SITE. A POST-OPERATIVE INFECTED SEROMA WAS NOTED. A BEDSIDE ULTRASOUND REVEALED A COLLECTION OF FLUID AT THE LATERAL SIDE OF THE INCISION AND ASPIRATION OF ¿BROWNISH FLUID¿ WAS PERFORMED. TWO DAYS LATER THE PATIENT PRESENTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AND EXTENSION OF REDNESS AROUND THE INCISION SITE WAS NOTED. WHEN THE MEDIAL CORNER OF THE SITE WAS ¿PUSHED DOWN¿ THERE WAS DISCHARGE OF SANGUINOUS FLUID NOTED TO BE CONCERNING FOR HEMATOMA AND POSSIBLE INFECTION. ADDITIONALLY, THE REDNESS WAS ¿TRACKING DOWN TO THE BREAST AREA.¿ THE PATIENT WAS ADMITTED AND PLACED ON INTRAVENOUS ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT. FOLLOWING, THE PATIENT WAS TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER FACILITY FOR TREATMENT OF AN EXTENSIVE INFECTION OF THE POCKET AND SURROUNDING TISSUE. THE IPG SYSTEM WAS REMOVED, WIDE EXCISIONAL DEBRIDEMENT OF THE LEFT CHEST WOUND, EXCISION OF SKIN, SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE AND PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE WAS PERFORMED. THE PATIENT WAS PLACED ON A TEMPORARY PACING SYSTEM, WOUND VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE PLACEMENT, AND MULTIPLE DEBRIDEMENT¿S RELATED TO NECROTIZING FUNGAL INFECTION AND LEFT CHEST WALL MOLD WERE ALSO PERFORMED. THE PATIENT¿S HOSPITAL COURSE WAS PROLONGED AND COMPLICATED BY ACUTE ON CHRONIC CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING, AND ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY. WHILE HOSPITALIZED THE PATIENT¿S SPUTUM WAS POSITIVE FOR PSEUDOMONAS AND DEVELOPED HSV1 HERPES LABIALIS. A CULTURE OF THE PACEMAKER POCKET GREW CANDIDA KRUSE AND APOPHYSOMYCES TRAPEZIFORMIS, TISSUE OF THE MEDIAL CHEST WALL SHOWED COLONY MOLD, AND THE LATERAL WALL MARGIN SHOWED PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA. THE CULTURE FROM A CHEST SPECIMEN SHOWED VERY LIGHT COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCCUS AND WAS NOTED TO REPRESENT NORMAL MICROBIAL FLORA. BLOOD CULTURES WERE NEGATIVE. THE PATIENT DEVELOPED AMPHOTERICIN INDUCED NEPHROTOXICITY AND IT WAS STATED THIS RESULTED IN RENAL INSUFFICIENCY CAUSING LONG STANDING CHRONIC KIDNEY INJURY. THE PATIENT UNDERWENT SKIN GRAFTING FOR A SKIN DEFECT THAT RESULTED FROM THE FUNGAL INFECTION AND A NEW IPG SYSTEM WAS IMPLANTED. NO FURTHER PATIENT COMPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN REPORTED AS A RESULT OF THIS EVENT.

    Description of Event or Problem · 1

    IT WAS ALSO REPORTED THE PATIENT COMPLAINED OF LEFT SHOULDER AREA AND AXILLARY SORENESS AND NOTICED BLEEDING FROM AROUND THE BANDAGE. THE PATIENT DESCRIBED THE LEFT UPPER CHEST SORENESS AS STABBING AND BURNING. FOLLOWING ASPIRATION OF THE FLUID IN THE POCKET, THE PATIENT REPORTED RELIEF FROM THE PAIN AND SORENESS; HOWEVER, LATER THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED WORSENING PAIN. DURING THE COURSE OF THE INFECTION THE PATIENT DEVELOPED A FEVER, CHILLS, AND WORSENING RASH OVER THE LEFT CHEST AND SHOULDER. AT THE TIME OF EXPLANT DIFFUSE PURULENCE WITHIN THE POCKET AND EXTENSIVE NECROSIS BEYOND THE MESOTHELIAL LINING OF THE POCKET WAS FOUND AND THERE WAS LEFT CHEST WALL CELLULITIS. IT WAS ALSO REPORTED THERE WAS BACTERIAL PSEUDOMONAS OF THE LEFT CHEST WOUND AND BLOOD CULTURES WERE CONSISTENTLY FOUND TO BE NEGATIVE. ENDOCARDITIS WAS NOTED, AND THE PATIENT¿S HOSPITAL COURSE WAS COMPLICATED DUE TO POOR WOUND HEALING AT THE PACEMAKER SITE. THE POCKET INFECTION CONSISTED OF YEAST AND MOLD; KRUSEI AND MUCOR ZYGOMYCETES AND THE MUCORMYCOSIS INFECTION SPREAD INTO THE PATIENT¿S LEFT PECTORAL MUSCLE. FOLLOWING EXPLANT, THE SOFT TISSUE WOUND WAS FOUND TO BE EXTENSIVELY INDURATED WITH ¿SPOTS OF WHAT APPEARED TO BE GANGRENOUS TISSUE.¿ THE FUNGUS WAS FOUND TO BE IN THE DEAD TISSUE WHICH WAS THROMBOSED AND NECROTIC.

    Devices

    Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
    308995 AIGIS-R MEDIUM MESH, SURGICAL, POLYMERIC FTL TYRX, INC. CMRM6122 15G01615 00643169468856

    Patients

    Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
    1 87 YR Hospitalization| R