Failed Mesh Implant Complications and Procedures | TVM Settlements

Many women, either after childbirth or menopause, suffer from pelvic organ prolapse. A study showed as many as half of all women have POP in their lifetime of who two percent suffers from severe health complications. Often the signs of POP are devastating and needs immediate surgical intervention. In the last decade, the use of bladder slings became very popular as it was easier to conduct and had faster recovery time. Unfortunately, there were plenty of reports about the  bladder sling complications . Most of these side effects were about the mesh erosion, mesh contraction and mesh adhesion. Let's see the major complications one by one: Sling surgery is usually used in women to correct stress incontinence (incontinence is the condition where the patient involuntarily release urine during activities such as laughing or coughing). Unfortunately, the surgery can result in the patient suffering from urge incontinence, or the sudden and controllable need to urinate. One of

Transvaginal synthetic mesh implant common in not only the US but all across the globe to treat patients from pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. Close to 200,000 surgical procedures are done for POP and SUI every year in the U.S. itself. In 2002, the FDA approved of these devices, for the treatment POP and SUI in elder women. Unfortunately, the mesh makers concealed of the probable side effects of these implantable devices. Thousands of bladder mesh lawsuit files were brought to the state courts claiming for the damage awards for the needless physical injuries. The most common complications of transvaginal mesh surgery include but not limited to: ·           Mesh erosion ·          urinary and genital infection and irritation ·          urinary tract obstruction ·          relapse of stress urinary incontinence ·          urethra injury ·          chronic pelvic pain ·          blood in urine from damaged pelvic vessels ·