Category: Vaginal Mesh

Vigna Law Group: Investigating Mid-Urethral Sling Complications for Physician Malpractice

lukej April 24, 2024 No Comments

The use of mid-urethral slings for the treatment of SUI can be considered dubious, given history of litigation and severe pain syndromes. Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national neurological injury attorney,…

Vigna Law Group: Most Mid-Urethral Sling Implanting Physicians Have No Idea of the Dangers

lukej April 23, 2024 No Comments

AUGS Statement on the Management of Mesh-Related Complications describes unique risks caused by the arms of polypropylene retropubic and transobturator slings “There is clearly a disconnect between what has been…

Vaginal Mesh Scandal Ongoing as Adverse Events Continue

lukej April 19, 2024 No Comments

Dr. Greg Vigna comments on the Maude Adverse Event Report involving a woman who was implanted with a harmful Prolift device. On April 5, 2019 MAUDE Adverse Event Report 141104027…

Study: PVDF Slings Lays Flat While Polypropylene “Seem to Lose Their Structural Integrity”

lukej April 18, 2024 No Comments

This was a small study but again points to the increased stability, less inflammatory effect of PVDF when compared with Polypropylene. Dr. Laila Najjari at the University Hospital Aachen, Germany…

Altis Single-Incision Sling: Explaining Dyspareunia is Short and Stiff

lukej April 16, 2024 No Comments

Dr. Greg Vigna, national mid-urethral sling attorney states, “The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), “Single-Incision Mini-Slings for Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women,” there remain unanswered questions regarding which single…

Mid-Urethral Sling Complications: Complete Transobturator Sling Removal is Standard of Care

lukej April 14, 2024 No Comments

“Transobturator tape removal with bilateral groin dissection improves patients’ pain and quality of life. It is associated with a high rate of overall satisfaction, low morbidity and an acceptable rate…

Vaginal Mesh Update: Neurosurgeons, PM&R, and Pain Physicians step in

lukej April 11, 2024 No Comments

“We are seeing women obtaining care from multiple physician specialist outside of the field of urogynecology who are treating pudendal, obturator, and ilioinguinal neuralgia caused by retropubic and transobturator slings”…Greg…

Greg Vigna, MD, JD: Mini-slings: Less mesh, more big injuries

lukej April 10, 2024 No Comments

Dr. Greg Vigna comments on AUG’s failure to recognize the chronic pain that results from the foreign body response of the mesh implantation. “Do not use single-incision sub-urethral short mesh…

Stress Urinary Incontinence: Coloplast Altis Mini-sling versus Bulking Agents

lukej April 5, 2024 No Comments

“There was no discernible difference in terms of effectiveness or quality of life between patients treated with bulking agents and those treated with single-incision slings (Coloplast’s Altis sling)” states Dr.…

Mid-Urethral Sling Update: Final Chapter for Polypropylene Mesh has Begun

lukej April 3, 2024 No Comments

“There is a biodegradable mesh approaching the market that is resorbed from the body over two years and replaced by collagen. Not a permanent device because it is 100% degraded…

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