Comments from Lana Keeton, speaker Transvaginal Mesh
Panel, Mass Torts Made Perfect, April 2012 Las Vegas sent via e-mail on
04-28-2012 to all of the following email addresses.
ALL OF THESE PLAINTIFFS ATTORNEYS KNOW THE TRUTH!
Dear MDL Litigators,
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For those of you who don’t
know me, my patient advocacy organization, Truth in Medicine, and I were instrumental
in getting the FDA warnings on synthetic surgical mesh issued in 2008 and 2011.
Based on that work, I appeared as a speaker on the Transvaginal Mesh Panel at
Mass Torts Made Perfect April 20, 2012 in Las Vegas.
It’s important to understand, this is a bigger fight
than a lawsuit and a product.
Use of synthetic surgical
mesh is a fatally flawed concept which remains unchallenged. Hernias,
incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse are conditions caused by torn or
weakened tissue. These are not diseases, only conditions. Implanting a foreign
body polymer, synthetic surgical mesh, does not treat causation.
Treating the symptoms with synthetic mesh is a
confounding factor in these conditions. Based on my extensive research, the
simple act of implantation is the culprit. The complications are complicated.
The cause is not. It’s the device, not the doctor, not the procedure, not the
patient.
I.
ABDOMINAL SACRAL COLPOPEXY
Abdominal sacral colpopexy is not a better, safer alternative
than mesh kits for pelvic organ prolapse. It has a high complication rate and a
long recovery. In addition, a significant complication is stress urinary
incontinence (SUI) leading to further surgery and the use of synthetic mesh
slings, which is the subject of current litigation.
Recurrent prolapse: 8% - 24%
Repeat surgery: 5% - 9%
Stress Urinary
Incontinence: 10%
TVT/Ob-Tape: 3% - 13%
(recommended postoperatively
for SUI)
Attached you will find a
description of the procedure and a listing of some studies demonstrating these
complications. Highlighted notes show the severity of this procedure and its
complications. This is well documented in other long standing literature. It is
a very intrusive procedure drastically cutting the internal pelvic organs with
a long recovery period.
There are significantly
better, safer surgical and non-surgical alternatives.
II.
POLYPROPYLENE DEGRADATION AND
DECOMPOSITION
As a steel broker with 30
years experience and an excellent knowledge of the physical and chemical
properties of steel, I have researched the physical and chemical properties of
the commercial uses of polypropylene and other polymers. Polypropylene is not
inert, degrades and decomposes in commercial use. Medical device manufacturers
know this.
Labeling polypropylene and
other foreign body polymers as biocompatible and inert because it is used for a
medical device is a misnomer, a misrepresentation and not true. I have a
significant compilation of studies demonstrating synthetic surgical mesh
implanted for hernia repair, bladder suspension and pelvic organ prolapse
repair degrades and decomposes when implanted.
My analysis looks at these
foreign body polymers from a manufacturing perspective and the inherent defects
that are impossible to escape.
I wish all of you success as you go forward seeking
justice for your clients. While you
are seeking justice, I am working at the FDA and in Congress as a patient
advocate to get synthetic surgical mesh off the market.
Advocacy is not enough. This has to be approached on every level possible.
That is why I am pleased to consult attorneys based on my thousands of hours of
research as a Pro Se Plaintiff against Johnson & Johnson/Ethicon in federal
court, as a patient advocate and as a mesh injured patient.
If you contract with me, I
will be happy to consult you and provide you additional information. Wishing
you many victories in court!
All the best,
Lana
Lana C. Keeton,
Med Device Expert LLC
901 Pennsylvania Avenue
Suite 3-423
Miami Beach, FL 33139
305-671-9331 phone
305-342-8002 cell phone
786-566-7780 cell phone
800-509-9917 fax
lanakeeton@meddeviceexpertllc.com
www.meddeviceexpertllc.com
