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(b)(4).Further information from the reporter regarding event, product, or patient details has been requested.No additional information is available at this time.The events of ¿redness and bumps¿, ¿swelling¿, and ¿erosions¿ are physiological complications and analysis of the device generally does not assist allergan in determining a probable cause for these events.Device labeling addresses the reported events as follows: warnings: ¿ "injection site reactions consist mainly of short-term inflammatory symptoms starting early after treatment and lasting = 7 days in facial wrinkles and folds, and typically last = 14 days in the lips.Refer to the adverse events section for details." precautions: ¿"the safety and effectiveness for the treatment of anatomic regions other than facial wrinkles and folds, lips, and perioral area have not been established in controlled clinical studies." adverse events: ¿"the most common injection-site responses for juvéderm® ultra xc were redness, swelling, tenderness, firmness, lumps/bumps, discoloration, and bruising." post-market surveillance: ¿"the following adverse events were received from postmarket surveillance for juvéderm® ultra and ultra plus, with and without lidocaine, with a frequency of 5 events or more and were not observed in the clinical study; this includes reports received globally from all sources including scientific journals and voluntary reports.All adverse events obtained through postmarket surveillance are listed in order of number of reports received: lack or loss of correction, inflammatory reaction, allergic reaction, necrosis, infection, migration, paresthesia, dry skin, abscess, headache, malaise, flulike symptoms, vision abnormalities, scarring, nausea, drainage, dyspnea, syncope, dizziness, anxiety, granuloma." ¿"in many cases, the symptoms resolved without any treatment.Reported treatments have included: oral or injectable antibiotics, steroids, steroidal creams, hyaluronidase, anti-inflammatories, anti-histamines, needle aspiration and drainage, ultrasound therapy, analgesics, anti-viral, excision, eye drops, hyperbaric oxygen, laser resurfacing, tissue debridement, surgical scar revision, ice, massage, and warm compress." ¿"scarring has mostly been reported after treatment in the forehead or glabellar region and associated with a vascular event, necrosis, skin discoloration, blister, nodule, allergic reaction, and infection.Time to onset ranged from 2 weeks to 4 months.Interventions prescribed by the physicians included topical steroidal cream, nitropaste, oral steroids, and antibiotics.Additional treatments noted were a laser procedure and surgical scar revision.".
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Healthcare professional reported that 2 days after injection in the glabella with juvederm® ultra plus the patient developed redness, swelling, and bumps at an unspecified site.The symptoms are resolving slowly with hyaluronidase, oral steroids, antibiotics, antiviral, nitroglycerin paste, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and warm compress.Patient was concomitantly injected with 25 units of botox in the glabella.The patient's still was tested later to see if it may be allergic, but that was negative.Symptoms are ongoing.
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Healthcare professional reported that 2 days after injection in the glabella with juvederm® ultra plus the patient developed redness, swelling, and bumps at an unspecified site.The symptoms are resolving slowly with hyaluronidase, oral steroids, antibiotics, antiviral, nitroglycerin paste, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and warm compress.Patient was concomitantly injected with 25 units of botox in the glabella.The patient's still was tested later to see if it may be allergic, but that was negative.Symptoms are ongoing.
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