On (b)(6) 2016 clinical evaluation: wife of a male diabetic patient contacts medtronic's helpdesk to inform that her husband passed away 2 months earlier after being hospitalised following a day of rising blood glucose level ending with diabetic ketoacidosis.Patient remained on pump therapy in hospital until death one day later when blood glucose was recorded at 33 mmol/l.Wife informs that her husband was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.Wife does not allege any malfunctions of insulin pump and/or infusion set related to the death of her husband.Insulin pump and infusion set remained at hospital, thus no pump history nor examination of infusion set is available/possible.With the presently available information, it is not possible to perform a proper clinical evaluation.Should further, relevant information become available, unomedical will re-open the case and inform, by follow-up reports, the (b)(6) and the us fda as appropriate.
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