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Although the FDA has received over 2,000 verifiable reports of complications resulting from vaginal mesh surgery, the procedure is still being performed on hundreds of thousands of women. Most vaginal mesh surgery is used to treat one of two conditions: stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Because the procedure was approved in 1996 and the first FDA warning was not issued until 2008, several lawsuits concerning vaginal mesh complications have been filed in nearly every state.

Vaginal Mesh Surgery

Vaginal mesh surgery sprang from the use of surgical mesh for the treatment of abdominal hernias. Surgical mesh is a flexible, perforated material that is surgically attached to tissue to hold organs or other tissue in place. After more than 40 years of being used for hernias, doctors began experiment with surgical mesh in transvaginal surgery to treat POP and SUI. Vaginal mesh surgery was approved to treat SUI in 1996 and POP in 2002.

Vaginal Mesh Complications Reported to FDA

Around 2005, nine years after vaginal mesh surgery was first approved, the FDA began receiving reports of complications resulting from the procedure. Some complications were merely the recurrence of the initial medical condition, but other, more severe …

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A vaginal hysterectomy is a medical procedure involving the removal of the womb via the vagina. There are many reasons why the womb, also known as the uterus, may need to be removed. These include uterine cancer, excessively heavy menstrual bleeding, and endometriosis.

Endometriosis is a condition in which the cells that normally make up the womb lining begin to grow outside the uterus, often on the ovaries, causing pelvic pain that is especially bad during menstruation. Women who suffer with heavy or painful periods, for whom other treatments have been unsuccessful, may find that vaginal hysterectomy is the most effective solution for their ailments.

A woman who has had a hysterectomy will no longer have periods or be able to become pregnant.

Traditional Hysterectomy

Hysterectomy has traditionally been carried out through a cut in the abdomen. However, this leads to scarring and carries an increased risk of damage to other organs during the surgery. Vaginal hysterectomy, which is the removal of the uterus via the natural opening of the vagina, is a much less invasive procedure that leaves no visible scars. The procedure lasts for only an hour and requires a hospital stay of only one or two days.…

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