In a Health Notification issued in October 2008 and updated in July 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned of serious complications associated with transvaginal placement of surgical ...
A long-time surgical standard for pelvic organ prolapse repair prevailed in a comparison against a newer technique that currently predominates in some parts of the world. Sacrospinous hysteropexy ...
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CurvaFix, Inc., a developer of medical devices to repair fractures in curved bones, announced today that it will showcase the new CurvaFix® IM Implant at the American ...
A device developed by Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons offers precise repair of pelvic fractures with minimal postsurgical scarring, pain and infection risk, according to a ...
LAS VEGAS — A woman's lifetime risk of surgery for stress urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse is 20% by the age of 80 — almost twice the risk commonly quoted for nearly 2 decades. These ...
WASHINGTON — Mesh implants used to repair pelvic collapse in women will face new federal scrutiny, under rules responding to thousands of injuries reported with the problem-prone devices. The Food and ...
U.S. health regulators ordered two medical device companies to stop selling surgical mesh used in pelvic repair surgeries, saying there isn’t enough evidence that the product embroiled in thousands of ...
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday ordered the two remaining medical device companies selling surgical mesh for the repair of pelvic organ prolapse to stop all sales and distribution in the ...