“We believe the Altis sling polypropylene mesh is too stiff and too short and behaves like a razor in women, causing groin pain and dyspareunia. There is nothing about the Coloplast 522 Study that assures that this device is not unreasonably dangerous given 23.9% persons entering the study were lost to follow up” stated Greg [...]
“Transobturator tape removal with bilateral groin dissection improves patients’ pain and quality of life,” states Dr. Marie-Aimee Perrouin-Verbe, MD. What else did Dr. Perrouin-Verbe, MD, report in BJUI Compass, 2024; 1-11? “It is associated with a high rate of overall satisfaction, low morbidity and an acceptable rate of stress urinary incontinence recurrence compared to partial [...]
Dr. Greg Vigna, national malpractice, mid-urethral sling attorney, states “retropubic slings that are placed lateral to the arcus ligament into the obturator internus muscle can cause acute groin pain that becomes chronic. Women with acute groin pain following a retropubic sling cannot have their pain dismissed by their implanting surgeon as laterally positioned arms of retropubic [...]
“When you do the math on the study population suffering from intestinal failure; 20% of patients who received a Hickman catheter developed a central-line infection and 18% of those who received a PICC line developed a central-line infection. Polyurethane and silicone PICCs and polyurethane were used for the Hickman lines. Both materials are defective” … Greg [...]
“The standard of care for management of deep Stage III and Stage IV decubitus ulcers includes the plastic surgery component. These are serious injuries and outcomes are bad without access to myocutaneous flaps” … Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national decubitus ulcer attorney, Board Certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr Anke Scheel-Sailer, MD, Spinal Cord Medicine, Swiss [...]
“The standard of care for management of deep Stage III and Stage IV decubitus ulcers includes the plastic surgery component. These are serious injuries and outcomes are bad without access to myocutaneous flaps” … Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national decubitus ulcer attorney, Board Certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Anke Scheel-Sailer, MD, Spinal Cord Medicine, Swiss [...]
“Study proves that quadri-amputee patient can regain a fully acceptable functional and quality of life being monitored in a specialized health center with a multidisciplinary health professional to help him” … Dr. Charlotte Gorney, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. What else did Dr. Gorney report in “Epidemiological Data, Functional Outcome, and Quality of Life of Patients [...]
“Central venous caterers should be removed as early as possible. It should never be assumed that removal of a catheter alone is adequate therapy in fungal BSIs” … Dr. Etienne Meriglier, Internal Medicine. What did Dr. Meriglier report in his article “Visceral localizations and mortality in catheter-Associated fungemia” in Research Square DOI? https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2251761/v1 “Fifty-two patients (36%) [...]
“A systematic review revealed recurrence and complication rates of 8.9 and 18.6% in musculocutaneous, fasciocutaneous and perforator-based flaps for treatment of pressure sores.” … Bahram Biglari, MD, Ph.D. What did Dr. Biglari report in “A retrospective study on flap complications after pressure ulcer surgery in spinal cord-injured patients”, published in the Spinal Cord (2014) 52, [...]
“The true meaning of living and dying with a palliative wound must be understood to align care with patient and family needs … This definition also includes people who are vulnerable and have impaired quality of life”… Duygu Sezgin, MSc, PhD. Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national decubitus ulcer attorney, states “Dr. Sezgin's statement of palliative [...]