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“Endanger the life of your yet-to-born child or put it to the risk of life-long injuries.” This is what an Effexor birth injury lawyer sums up when describing about the risk of antidepressant ingestion during pregnancy. Pregnant women are anxious over use of the SSRI antidepressant, as research studies have warned of brain malformations and other birth defects in newborns.
Dozens of Effexor birth defect lawsuits have been filed in the last one year alleging that “the medication is defective, dangerous to human health, unfit and unsuitable to be marketed for dangers associated, such as medical suffering, disability, disfigurement, impairment of working ability, mental anguish, and need for constant medical care attributed to the manufacturer’s failure to warn, design defect, negligent design, fraud, breach of warranty, and gross negligence.”
Effexor Birth Defect Brain Injuries
- One in every five children is likely to born with “Chiari type 1” brain malformations following exposure to serotonin-inhibitor antidepressants during pregnancy. The brain defect risk was first discovered by North Carolina University scholars and was subsequently reported in Neuropsychopharmacology journal (May 2014). These malformations in the cerebellum “impact balance, coordination, muscle movement and cognitive functions while squeezing out the spinal canal.” Children with such deformity are likely to “fall down a lot, walk unusually, have trouble grasping items, or have poor hand-eye coordination and suffer from neck or chest pain, headaches, choking, difficulty speaking, numbness, depression, development delays, and vision distortions.”
- According to a report in the Pediatrics journal, Effexor antidepressant birth defects in children result in growth and development problems such as inability to speak or walk compared to normal babies. The report also highlighted the potential risk of withdrawal syndrome in children exposed to SSRI drugs during prior to birth.
- A 2013 report in the British Medical Journal highlighted serious Effexor birth defect risks, including anencephaly, cranial defects, vertebra deformities, and seizures. Derived from English and Swedish findings, the journal claimed that babies born following ingestion of Effexor by their mothers had two-time greater risk of autism spectrum disorders.
- The Archives of General Psychiatry published a report in 2011 that also cited autism risk in babies due to antidepressant pregnancy side effects. Our Effexor attorney has evaluated several instances where the drug caused children to born with “communication inability, attention disorders, self-absorption, and behavioral problems.”
- According to the FDA alert in 2004, Effexor pregnancy exposure may lead to neonatal behavioral syndrome in newborns.
- It is common for an Effexor birth injury lawyer to come across plaintiff claims of severe neurological disorders, sleep disorders, underdeveloped brain, and related cranial disorders that are attested by experts as possible Effexor pregnancy side effects.
Effexor Birth Defect Lawsuit: Other Side Effects
- Fatal lung defect in newborns
- Neural tube and vertebra defects
- Hypoplastic heart syndrome
- Heart valve and septal defects
- Spina bifida
- Malformations impacting anus and abdomen
- Clubfoot and other physical deformities
- Cleft lip and palate
Effexor attorneys are evaluating hundreds of potential product liability claims against Pfizer and Wyeth for their “failure to adequately warn or remedy the risks, but instead concealed, suppressed and failed to disclose birth defect dangers associated with antidepressant side effects that resulted in suffering, disability, and disfigurement of newborns.”
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