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Our team of attorneys are now investigating claims and prepared to file Mirena lawsuitsinvolving the intrauterine contraceptive device Mirena®. Manufactured by Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Mirena is an IUD device [intrauterine device] that must be inserted by a trained health care provider and is intended to provide contraceptive protection for up to five years. Some women have experienced serious adverse side-effects and potentially life-threatening complications following the implantation of theMirena device, including perforation of or imbedment in the uterus.
Mirena May Cause a Hysterectomy Following Perforation of the Uterus
Mirena is alleged to have many side effects. Mirena is an interuterine contraceptive device {IUD}. Our team includes Mirena attorneys that want to provide information to women or their loved ones about making a Mirena claim or to discuss a Mirena lawsuit.
One such injury that can result is a hysterectomy.
Of the approximately 600,000 women who still undergo hysterectomy in theUnited Stateseach year, about 500 will die as a direct consequence of the surgery. Others develop complications physicians call “morbidity.” This word, derived from the Latin morbus, meaning disease, covers a wide range of adverse outcomes. Some are mere nuisances, such as transient fevers after surgery that vanish without treatment; others are serious complications. One of these, for example, is bowel obstruction, an abrupt and life-threatening emergency that must be corrected immediately by skilled surgery. In addition to surgical complications, some women feel psychologically traumatized by the loss of their uterus well after other women have recovered.
Ill Effects
Many of the ill effects of hysterectomy are immediate and easy to document. In addition to other drawbacks, the fate of the ovaries must be considered. The older a women is when she has a hysterectomy, the more likely it is that she will lose her ovaries. According to information published in 1997 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the large and prestigious governmental organization based inAtlanta,Georgia, 51 percent of all women who underwent hysterectomy between 1988 and 1993 were castrated in this fashion. The word castration has an ominous sound to it, partly because of the male fear of losing testicles, outward emblems of masculinity. Castration is the excision of gonads, testicles, or ovaries; its physiological consequences are more wide-ranging and damaging in women. And even if left behind, perfectly good ovaries may be inadvertently knocked out of action by an apparently uneventful hysterectomy.
Loosing Hormones
Losing ovarian hormones has serious implications for women whose ovaries are erroneously thought to be intact and functioning: These women become menopausal within a year or two of the hysterectomy. If they do not get menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, possibly neither the woman nor her gynecologist will understand the seriousness of the situation, and the estrogen these women have quietly lost may not be replaced. Hysterectomy with, or even without, the excision of the ovaries may be followed many years later by a heart attack or a fall that fractures a forearm or a hip.
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