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Our team of attorneys are now investigating claims and prepared to file Mirena lawsuitsinvolving the intrauterine contraceptive device Mirena®. Manufactured by Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Mirena is an IUD device [intrauterine device] that must be inserted by a trained health care provider and is intended to provide contraceptive protection for up to five years. Some women have experienced serious adverse side-effects and potentially life-threatening complications following the implantation of theMirena device, including perforation of or imbedment in the uterus.
Mirena Device May Cause Infections
Mirena is alleged to have many side effects. Mirena is an interuterine contraceptive device {IUD}. Our team includes Mirena attorneys that want to provide information to women or their loved ones about making a Mirena claim or to discuss a Mirena lawsuit.
No surgery is entirely without risk. You need to be aware not only of worst-case scenarios, but also of the various possibilities that may delay your healing, require further surgery or other treatment, and lengthen your recovery time. The risks of surgery are obviously greater for women as they get older and women with certain existing medical problems. If you are over sixty-five or have heart disease or chronic lung problems, you clearly may have more difficulty with your anesthetic than a fit thirty-five-year-old who runs ten miles a week.
Infections
Urinary tract infections and wound infections are the most common infections after hysterectomy. Wound infections can also cause a rise in temperature, accompanied by the development of redness at the incision site—on your belly after an abdominal hysterectomy or your perineum after vaginal surgery—and, sometimes, pus or a vaginal discharge as well. Often, simply removing the stitches cures the infection, but sometimes it is necessary to use antibiotics.
Organ Damage
The bowel, bladder, and ureters (the tubes leading to the kidneys) actually are to the uterus are situated close to the uterus. In most cases, it is very easy for your surgeon to move these organs out of harm’s way, but there are cases in which the pelvic organs are all stuck together by endometriosis, infection, or scar tissue from previous surgery. In these instances, the bladder and/or bowel may be damaged. If the bladder or ureter is damaged, and then repaired, a urinary catheter will be left in place for several days post-op to allow healing, and antibiotics will be prescribed. If the bowel has been damaged and repaired, you will be kept on a lowroughage diet for a while postoperatively, and you will also receive antibiotics.
Thrombosis and Embolism
Thrombosis is a condition in which blood stagnates in the blood vessels in the legs and forms clots. Bits of these clots may break off and travel through the blood vessels to the lungs, causing a blockage that interferes with the exchange of oxygen in the lung and can be fatal. This is called a pulmonary embolism. Keeping the legs immobile during any surgery, as well as certain blood changes caused by surgery itself, can predispose to thrombosis and embolism.
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