FREE CASE EVALUATION: 1-800-632-1404
Tens of thousands of women receive a transvaginal mesh (TVM) device each and every year from numerous suppliers: American Medical Systems, Bard, Boston Scientific, Ethicon,Gynecare, and Johnson & Johnson. Thousands of women have been injured through no fault of their own, including vaginal erosion, pain, urinary problems, bleeding, infection and more. Our attorneys are representing women in all fifty states and Canada who have been injured. For a free case evaluation, call 1-800-632-1404.
More Information on Transvaginal Mesh Injuries
Many women who have suffered from bladder prolapse, pelvic prolapse and other related complications have had transvaginal mesh implanted to treat the problem. Atransvaginal mesh is a surgical mesh made from polyester or polypropylene and feels like a woven fabric and is implanted in the vagina. It reinforces the vaginal wall and creates what is at times referred to as a pelvic sling or baldder sling.
Transvaginal mesh is used to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary inconsistence (SUI); however, the use of transvaginal mesh can result in complications. One such complication is the recurrence of the stress urinary incontinence.
Stress Urinary Incontinence
Stress urinary incontinence occurs when intra abdominal pressure exceed urethral pressure as with coughing or sneezing in the absence of a detrusor contraction. The striated pelvic floor muscles normally support the bladder neck and exert a closing force on the urethra during conditions of heightened intra abdominal pressure. Pelvic floor muscle weakness or laxity can contribute to stress incontinence. Stress incontinence is more prevalent in women as a result of pelvic floor partial denervation injury that occurs during childbirth. Stress incontinence is also seen after prostatectomy due to the disruption of the urethral sphineter or its nerve supply.
Surgical Treatment
Although over 125 operations have been designed to treat stress incontinence, they fall into six general categories. All of the operations are based on the same common principles: (1) to restore the support of the bladder and urethra so that they don’t fall down again and (2) to provide a kind of backboard against which the urethra is compressed during stress. The six categories of operations for stress incontinence include (1) vaginal suspensions, (2) “needle” suspensions, (3) retropubic suspensions, (4) pubovaginal sling operations, (5) prosthetic sphincters, and (6) periurethral injections.
Complications of Surgery
As with any operation, there are possible complications or unexpected results from surgery. The most frequent complication is frequency and urgency of urination – an urge incontinence. Urge is the involuntary loss of urine that occurs when a patient gets so strong an urge to urinate that she cannot hold it back long enough to reach the bathroom. Many patients have these symptoms temporarily after surgery, but as many as 5-20% have them as a persistent problem. At the present time there is no sure way to predict who will have this problem. However, people who have urge incontinence before the operation are much more prone to having the symptoms postoperatively.
Our team of attorneys is reviewing case evaluations for women across the country who have received TVM and TVT products from manufactures such as C.R. Bard, Avaulta, Boston Scientific, and Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon.
If you need help from a transvaginal mesh device injury, call us today for help.
The Problem
In 2008, the FDA first released concerns about the safety of transvaginal placement of mesh. From 2008 to 2010, the FDA received three to five times as many adverse reports associated with mesh used for pelvic organ prolapse repair than what agency received from 2005 to 2007 (nearly 1,000 reports of adverse events were received from 2005-2007).
Many of these patients complain because of erosion or contraction of the mesh material (which has been described as being of a similar material as Rubbermaid storage containers). The erosion leads to bleeding, severe pelvic pain, painful (or impossible) sexual performance and a recurrence of urinary problems.
In July 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an update related to what it called ‘serious complications’ related to the use of vaginal mesh for treatment of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI). It is now known that complications linked to transvaginal placement of surgical mesh in SUI and POP patients are not rare and can require multiple surgeries to correct problems related to the use of surgical mesh. In fact, the FDA now says that additional surgeries may actually not be able to repair damage caused by implantation of the mesh.
In other words, the side effects of the mesh placement may be permanent. These complications from transvaginal placement of surgical mesh include:
- -Erosion of the implanted mesh
- -Infection and/or bleeding
- -Pain, including pain during sexual intercourse
- -Problems with organs near the implantation site
Helping You
You may have experienced mesh erosion, bleeding, urinary infections, vaginal scarring, pain during sexual intercourse, failure to conduct sexual intercourse and more. A physician may have tried to remove the mesh and been unable to do so. You may be in excruciating pain, and need help. We are offering free case evaluations to the general public across the United States and Canada. Manufacturers we consider include American Medical Systems, Bard, Boston Scientific, Ethicon,Gynecare, and Johnson & Johnson.
If you received a transvaginal mesh / sling and have been injured, you may be entitled to monetary compensation. Problems include pain, inability to have intercourse,bleeding, mesh growth into the body, mesh erosion, and more. Problems could be irreversible. Please fill out the form to the right or call us so that we can provide you with forms to evaluate your potential case immediately.
We are accepting case evaluations nationwide and in Canada, as well. Please do not hesitate or delay in contacating TVM / TVT Sling and transvaginal mesh attorneys :
CALL: 1-800-632-1404
EMAIL: clicking here
FILL OUT THIS FORM FOR A FREE CONSULTATION AND CASE EVALUATION:
NOTE: Our team of attorneys will review potential cases for all fifty states, including Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming.