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Posts: 23,222
Hysterectomy: June 17th, 1998
Surgery Type: TAH
Ovaries: Removed both
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FDA: Complications from mesh for pelvic organ prolapse ALERT
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a statement Wednesday about the use of synthetic mesh in transvaginal surgery to repair pelvic organ prolapse. In addition to updating concerns about the mesh’s safety and efficacy in correcting prolapse, the agency said that, contrary to its stance in its 2008 report on the matter, complications from use of the mesh in treating prolapse are “not rare.”
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READ the alert from FDA:
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Sa.../ucm142636.htm
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FDA: Complications from mesh for pelvic organ prolapse ALERT
