There is a basis of physician malpractice for merely selecting a full-length transobturator sling or minisling that inserts into the obturator internus muscle. “We represent women with serious neurological injuries from retropubic slings. Our position is that full-length heavy-weight polypropylene retropubic are unreasonably dangerous and there are safer alternative synthetic designs that would substantially [...]

Vigna Law Group focuses on the neurological injuries caused by transvaginal mesh devices including pudendal neuralgia. “Because midurethral slings have recently become under scrutiny, it may return as a first-line treatment procedure. Both open and laparoscopic Burch colposuspension should therefore nowadays be provided in fellowship programs worldwide," states Nikolas Veit-Rubin, MD. Dr. Vigna, national [...]

Literature is supporting the efficacy of groin dissection and the removal of the arms of polypropylene slings for women with intractable pelvic pain “This case series is one of the few to report functional outcomes, in particular quality of life and sexual quality of life, after tape removal and has one of the highest [...]

TOTs cause man-made pudendal and obturator neuralgia, a burning or stabbing pain that follows the path of a nerve. Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national product liability attorney, practicing physician, and Certified Life Care Planner states, “The 2020 Joint Position Statement on the Management of Mesh-Related Complications for the FPMRS Specialist has acknowledged that pudendal [...]

Coloplast was hit with a lawsuit filed by a woman who sustained injuries caused by the Altis mini-sling device. On December 27, 2021 Coloplast was hit with a lawsuit filed by a Florida woman who sustained injuries caused by the Altis mini-sling device used for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The lawsuit [...]

Dr. Vigna is a CA and DC lawyer who focuses on catastrophic injuries and the neurological injuries caused by transvaginal mesh devices. “We have filed dozens of pelvic nerve injury cases caused by mid-urethral slings across the country with life care plans valued over 2 million dollars. Despite COVID we have multiple cases that [...]

Boston Scientific was hit with a lawsuit filed by a woman who sustained injuries caused by the Obtryx transobturator sling device. On December 16, 2021, Boston Scientific was hit with a lawsuit filed by a Washington State woman who sustained injuries caused by the Obtryx transobturator sling device used for the treatment of stress [...]

“Women with serious injuries caused by the Boston Scientific Advantage Fit and Ethicon TVT Exact cases are being filed across the country with symptoms of Ilioinguinal neuralgia and pudendal neuralgia. When these diagnoses occur together, that case is considered as the ‘prototype’ retropubic sling case that will lead the retropubic slings down the same [...]

Coloplast was hit with a lawsuit filed by an Idaho woman who sustained injuries caused by the Altis mini-sling device. On November 23, 2021, Coloplast was hit with a lawsuit filed by an Idaho woman who sustained injuries caused by the Altis mini-sling device used for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The [...]

“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 Vigna, MD, JD Dr. Vigna adds, “The neurological pain syndromes caused by transobturator slings and retropubic slings may take a few years for a [...]