| The exact number of cases of hernia repair surgery | | | | known to break while inside of the patient, its parts can |
| complications that had to occur before the FDA would | | | | move throughout the body causing serious damage, |
| urge manufacturers to have a mesh device recall is | | | | including perforations to other organs and to the |
| not known. What is known is that thousands of | | | | bowels. The mesh parts can also wrap around |
| patients have suffered from the painful defective | | | | portions of the small intestines or can cause bowel |
| hernia patch side effects. Now those patients are | | | | blockages, as well as fistulas in the intestines. |
| seeking compensation for their suffering and their | | | | Not only did the patients have to suffer from the |
| additional medical problems. | | | | additional pain of these defective hernia patch side |
| In 1996, the Federal Drug Administration authorized the | | | | effects but in some cases they had to continue |
| use of a new product to help with the treatment of | | | | suffering for years because their surgeons refused to |
| hernias. The device consisted of synthetic mesh fabric | | | | believe that further complications had occurred. Many |
| wrapped around a coil. Because the device was small, | | | | had to report to other surgeons in order to get relief |
| it could be inserted into a small incision and the coil | | | | from their continuing pain. One man had to suffer for |
| would snap the area back into place so it could heal | | | | an additional four years after having a second surgery |
| and re-grow properly without putting extra stress on | | | | to repair a problem with the device. These and other |
| the weakened muscle walls. | | | | issues led to the mesh device recall. |
| Defective hernia patch side effects began arising after | | | | As a result of these hernia repair surgery |
| 2002. Those side effects and hernia repair surgery | | | | complications and defective hernia patch side effects, |
| complications were so severe that it resulted in a | | | | thousands of patients have begun lawsuits against the |
| mesh device recall recommended by the FDA and put | | | | manufacturer in order to receive compensation for |
| into effect by the manufacturer of the devices. Even | | | | their medical costs and their additional pain. The |
| after the recall, more reports of the problems that | | | | lawsuits are also hoped to bring attention to the |
| have arisen from the use of these devices have | | | | increasing problems associated with devices and |
| appeared. | | | | medical treatments which are causing serious |
| The hernia repair surgery complications should not be | | | | complications for patients. |
| taken lightly. Because the mesh device has been | | | | |