The patient¿s attorney alleged a deficiency against the device.
The product was used for therapeutic treatment of an incisional hernia.
It was reported that after implant, the patient experienced incarcerated recurrent incisional hernia, adhesions, bulge with pain in supraumbilical skin, mild tenderness, omentum adherent to the midline incisional, and bowel adherent to mesh.
Post-operative treatment included recurrent incarcerated incisional hernia repair with new mesh, partial removal of previous covidien mesh, and small bowel resection.
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