The patient¿s attorney alleged a deficiency against the device.The product was used for therapeutic treatment of a ventral incisional hernia.It was reported that after implant, the patient experienced abscess, infection, open wound, mesh had bunched down and withdrawn nearly 7 cm from where it had been anchored, phlegmon surrounding mesh and intraabdominal fluid, abdominal pain, fever, murky fluid, large purulent phlegmon, and mesh had bunched down around the phlegmon and withdrawn from where it had been previously anchored.Post-operative patient treatment included aspiration of subfascial abscess, wound left open with packing, complex open abdominal wound closure, explantation of infected mesh as well as incision and drainage of intraabdominal fluid consistent with abscess.
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