| Model Number |
310C29 |
| Medical Device Problem Code |
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem (2993)
|
| Health Effect - Clinical Codes |
Endocarditis (1834); Mitral Regurgitation (1964)
|
| Date of Event |
07/25/2018
|
|
Type of Reportable Event
|
Serious Injury
|
|
Additional Manufacturer Narrative
|
|
Conclusion: without the return of the product, no definitive conclusion can be made regarding the clinical observation.If information is provided in the future, a supplemental report will be issued.
|
| |
|
Event or Problem Description
|
|
Medtronic received information that 8 years 1 month post implant of this 29mm mitral bioprosthetic valve, it was explanted and replaced with a 31mm mitral bioprosthetic valve due to regurgitation and recent staph aureus endocarditis.The patient had developed shortness of breath and lower extremity edema and was placed on antibiotics.The patient had a murmur that had become more pronounced and demonstrated significant prosthetic valve mitral regurgitation, which required a mitral valve replacement.The valve was sent to the hospital lab for cultures no anaerobes were isolated and no growth resulted.No additional adverse patient effects were reported. .
|
| |
|
Additional Manufacturer Narrative
|
|
Medtronic received additional information that the intraoperative transesophageal echocardiogram (tee) showed the patient had severe mitral regurgitation.Added patient weight.If information is provided in the future, a supplemental report will be issued.
|
| |
|
Search Alerts/Recalls
|