The patient¿s attorney alleged a deficiency against the device.
The product was used for laparoscopic therapeutic treatment of a ventral incisional hernia.
It was reported that after implant, the patient experienced fluid pocket found over the mesh, non-healing wound with draining sinus, recurrence, mucoid tract, inflammation, ulceration, granulation tissue, sinus tract, granuloma, foamy macrophages, focal foreign body-type giant cell reaction, necrosis, abundant foamy histiocytes/ focal plasma cells, abscess, scarring, purulent material, infection, wound dehiscence, and fistula.
Post-operative patient treatment included revision surgery, mesh removal, hernia repair with new mesh, debridement of mucoid tract and base of wound, removal of left abdominal subcutaneous draining sinus, wound debridement, washout, primary abdominal closure, abscess drained surgically, excision of soft tissue abdominal subcutaneous suture granuloma, and wound vac.
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