The patient¿s attorney alleged a deficiency against the device.
The product was used for therapeutic treatment of an incarcerated incisional hernia.
It was reported that after implant, the patient experienced recurrence of an incisional hernia that was incarcerated and painful, erosion, adhesions, loops of small bowel adherent to the mesh, and wrinkled mesh causing bowel obstruction.
Treatment for these conditions included surgical revision of the mesh, lysis of adhesions, resection of loops of small bowel adherent to mesh, hernia repair with sutures, and later explant of the mesh.
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