Women with vaginal discomfort Is the risk of depression or self-harm greater in women who have experienced complications following transvaginal mesh midurethral sling placement? Women with ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a new warning about a medical device many say never should have been implanted in millions of women. In January, the FDA re-classified transvaginal mesh, a ...

It seems like every day there is a lawsuit for some form of medical product. Lately, if you have noticed, many lawyers are now advertising and soliciting for individuals who have had a transvaginal ...

CHICAGO — The ban on further sales of transvaginal mesh for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) imposed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month has some people cheering, some saying that an ...

SMUS implantation is an operation for the correction of sphincteric incontinence in which a synthetic plastic like mesh strip (the sling) is passed around the urethra into the retropubic space or ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Hundreds of Oklahoma women are suing the makers of a surgical mesh product they said they believe caused serious injuries following urological or gynecological procedures. In each case ...

The transobturator sling by its design places the pudendal nerve in peril while the retropubic sling does not. What is clear is the transobturator sling by its design causes pudendal neuralgia, CRPS-2 ...

The procedure describe above would be reported with CPT code 57288 — Sling operation for stress incontinence. Once the sling has been placed, the physician may perform a diagnostic cystoscopy to ...

In the Southern District of West Virginia, Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Ethicon, Inc., were sued for defective design and failure to warn for their transvaginal mesh TVT-O, in addition to a ...