HAVE YOU OR A LOVED ONE SUFFERED INJURIES DUE TO AN IVC FILTER IMPLANT?
Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filters are tiny medical devices implanted in a patient’s vein to help keep dangerous blood clots from traveling to the lungs, heart, or brain.
The filters are surgically inserted into the largest vein in the human body, the Inferior Vena Cava. They are designed to trap blood clots before they reach a patient’s vital organs. The filters can be implanted permanently or temporarily.
While IVC filters are meant to protect patients from potentially deadly blood clots, they are known to cause health complications that may also be life-threatening. For this reason, many patients and their families have filed lawsuits against the manufacturers of these defective and harmful medical devices.
DEADLY COMPLICATIONS FROM IVC FILTERS
The most common and potentially deadly risks associated with IVC Filters include the following.
Device Migration: Over time, filters can dislodge from their original location and float freely through a patient’s bloodstream before becoming lodged again in a life-threatening location, such as a patient’s heart, lungs or brain.
Filter Breakage: While the entire IVC filter may not become dislodged, certain portions of the device can break away and become caught inside a patient’s organs, which can cause damage and eventually death due to blocked or compromised blood flow.
Filter Perforation: It is not uncommon for some IVC filters to poke through the walls of the Inferior Vena Cava and allow blood to leak out into a patient’s abdominal cavity. This can result in severe blood loss and death from internal bleeding.
Pulmonary Embolism: Many IVC filters are ineffective and do not stop potentially fatal blood clots from travelling to patients’ lungs. Blood clots that become lodged in a patient’s lungs are known as pulmonary embolisms, and they are often fatal.
CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS ARE BEING FILED.
Currently, many class action lawsuits are being filed against medical device and drug manufacturers on behalf of injured consumers who feel these companies should be held accountable for their negligent and unethical actions.
In recent court trials, internal documents revealed that testing done by the manufacturers’ own researchers indicated that certain drugs or medical devices were not safe for public use, yet the manufacturers pushed for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) anyway.
To date, many of these dangerous drugs and defective devices account for billions of dollars in annual sales for these manufacturers. They also account for hundreds of thousands of patient injuries, illnesses and deaths.
You may be entitled to join a class action lawsuit and receive compensation if you were harmed by a dangerous drug or defective medical device.