If you have problems with a TVT mesh operation please report it to the Government’s watchdog group, the MHRA. Dr Neil McGuire, of the MHRA, said patient safety was a team sport with complications reported by the medical profession, regulators and patients. The biggest problem? Most women have never heard of it. If you have suffered PLEASE report as only then will we get a […]
Scandal of fruit netting ‘approved as surgical implant’
The Sunday Times 11 January 2015 A fake report saw mesh netting on the brink of medical approval. An Oxford scientist joined an undercover investigation to expose how the regulation of medical devices is so lax that mesh packaging for fruit could be approved as a medical device to be implanted in people’s bodies. Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine […]
Differences in Hospital Literature Information
Hospitals across the UK have different figures on complication rates. A quick look at hospital patient leaflets shows the following:
The difference between TVT and TVTO
TVT The tape goes in the retro pubic space between the urethra and the bladder and comes out on your pubic area. TVTO The tape is inserted through the groin creases at the top of the leg and is taken through an area known as the obturator foramen. The tape sits under the urethra. This version of the operation was […]
Views of surgeons
American surgeon Dr Schlomo Raz of Los Angeles said he had removed more than 1,000 TVT tapes following complications. He said it could cure up to 80% of women – but a worrying 20% remained permanently disabled. (g) American surgeon, Donald Ostergard said in a paper for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2010: “Non inert polypropylene degrades […]
View of the MHRA – Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency
The MHRA claim the operation has a 1-3% failure rate but campaigners believe they cannot create such a figure as there is no National Register of failed devices. To report a failure you must pay for your hospital notes costing up to £50. You then have to find the batch number and model name and go through the MHRA yellow […]
Traditional surgery vs TVT
A urinary incontinence operation used to be carried out by highly skilled surgeons using a woman’s own tissues to create a sling or by a method called Burch colposupsension which involves the surgeon lifting the front wall of a woman’s vagina and fixing it with permanent stitches onto a ligament behind their pubic bone . It is thought that for […]
Seven Year report by researchers in the Netherlands
Mesh exposure problems affect four in ten women, according to a seven year study carried out by researchers in the Netherlands. Exposure is when the mesh erodes or breaks through the vaginal wall or other organs. The report is being discussed at a conference from June 9-13, at the annual meeting of the International Urogynecological Association meeting in France. 152 […]
A Global problem – Devastating consequences
“This is not just a problem for me. Thousands of women globally are suffering. The tape can be put in too tight, or positioned wrongly. The tape can twist or shrink, degrade and harbor bacteria. Problems have been reported up to 12 years after the operation,” said Kath. “I “It can press against or cut into the bladder or cut […]
Biggest pay out to a TVT victim in America on May 28 2015
Delaware woman Deborah Barba was awarded $100million to send a stark warning to manufacturer Boston Scientific. She had the TVT operation in 2009 and has suffered significant problems since including two operations which did not fully remove the device. See Mesh Medical news-desk. Previous highest pay out was in 2013 when Linda Gross successfully sues and a court ordered Johnson […]
