Vaginal mesh helpline has opened it's Miami Dade Hotline for Miami, North Miami beach, Hialeah,Coral Gables, Homestead, Miami beach,and Florida Keys. The new division can help the huge spanish speaking, bilingual women of Miami Dade.
Vaginal Mesh Women’s Lawyers, Abogados at the Vaginal Mesh Helpline Miami 1 877 522-2123 Speak to a female Social Worker who care about your vaginal mesh story.
Believe it or not this mesh is made of:
Polypropylene Knitted Mesh (PPKM) fabrics are comprised of monofilament yarns, which are engineered for the manufacturing of textile fabrics. The polymer and manufacturing processes that are used produce fabrics with properties that are ideally suited for the manufacturing of medical device applications. Medical applications include hernia mesh patches, stress urinary incontinence (SUI) slings, and vaginal prolapse suspenders
These synthetic products are creating problems for our Miami women.
Problems with polypropylene fabrics have led to warnings being issued for various products made from nonwoven material and in some cases, the manufacturers have stopped marketing the products
According to adverse reports submitted to the FDA from nine different manufacturers, more than 1,000 people have suffered severe complications from surgical mesh implants. The reports include infection, pain, urinary problems and bowel, bladder or blood-vessel perforations. The repaired prolapse may have recurred or incontinence increased. Additional surgeries to remove mesh have been required because of vaginal erosion.
Transvaginal Surgical Mesh has been used in droves by Miami gynecologists to Treat simple SUI
Sudden Urinary Incontinence (SUI) is estimated to affect as many as 11 million women in the United States. It is generally defined as the sudden, involuntary loss of urine when a patient is laughing, sneezing, coughing or exercising. SUI is caused by anything that may have led to serious pelvic muscle strain or weakness such as vaginal childbirth. It can be exacerbated by estrogen and other hormonal imbalance accompanying menopause. This has a huge effect on our baby boomer population.
Nearly 40% of all adult Miami women will experience various degrees of SUI during their lifetime. Symptoms can range from occasional leakage of a few drops of urine to complete loss of urine under certain conditions of stress. Although nonsurgical methods such as dietary changes, bladder retraining, Kegel exercises, biofeedback, pessaries, electrostimulation, and drug therapies have been used successfully to treat these women, many patients eventually require surgical repair to relieve their symptoms.
Historically, and for many decades, the Kelley plication or the Marshall-Marchetti (Krantz) procedures have been the main hospital based surgical treatments for reinforcing the bladder neck in order to prevent unintentional urine loss.
Other surgical techniques have been used to correct pelvic organ prolapse (POP), a related condition.
Transvaginal Surgical Mesh is being used to Treat POP in our Miami women
The problem of incontinence for women from various causes becomes more common after pregnancy and in menopause, when surgery can be recommended after other non-intrusive treatments are not found effective.
These conditions are referred to as Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP).
POP is the term that describes a condition when a pelvic organ drops from its normal location and pushes against the walls of the vagina. This generally occurs when muscles that hold pelvic organs in place are weakened or stretched by childbirth or surgery. POP can lead to symptoms that include pain, discomfort, loss of bladder control and constipation.
Mentor Sling
One popular product, known as the transobturator vaginal sling, was made by Mentor Corporation. This product was more commonly called “OB Tape.”
Mentor manufactured an OB Tape vaginal sling that was not recalled, but the company stopped marketing it in the spring of 2006. The product used a nonwoven material which made it different in design than most other mesh devices. The nonwoven fabric is alleged to have blocked oxygen and nutrients, substantially increasing the risk of problems such as infection. This impedance potentially can cause serious problems with the device that may not appear for months, or even years following implantation surgery.
The complication rate could very easily reach 20% of all patients who used the Mentor sling.
At least 35,000 women may have been treated with the OB Tape vaginal sling between 2003 and 2006 to treat female stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The bladder sling is designed to prevent involuntary leakage that occurs when pelvic muscles supporting the bladder and urethra are stressed or weakened. A number of women have filed Mentor sling lawsuits.
A study published in the Journal of Urology in October 2006 highlighted the risk of complications associated with the OB Tape sling. More than 13% of the women who received the Mentor Sling for incontinence allegedly have suffered vaginal extrusions. Many more cases reported women who suffered chronic vaginal discharge and abscesses.
Symptoms of OB Tape Sling injury may include but are not be limited to:
· High fever
· Vaginal Pain
· Pelvic Pain
· Pain During Sex
· Chronic Infections
· Perineal Cellulitis
· Severe Pain in the Back, Hips and Legs
If you have had this surgery and are experiencing any of these or other symptoms not listed here, immediately contact a Urogynecologist
Miami Hispanic Attorneys are Involved in a multi district litigation to protect Miami women who are victims of a failed mesh.
"I was having a lot of incontinence problems starting in my 30s," says Diane (not her real name). "When I exercised or coughed I would have a little leakage and it got to the point where I had to wear pads or even change my underwear. So on my gynecologist's advice, I had a transvaginal mesh implant when I was 56, two years ago."