After undergoing multiple surgeries including a colon resection, a Wyoming man is suing Atrium Medical for his hernia mesh product failure.

In March 2013, plaintiff James M. underwent a surgery which repaired both an epigastric hernia and an umbilical hernia using two small C-Qur Mesh hernia patches manufactured by Atrium.

A few months later, in July of that same year, James returned to his surgeon’s office. The surgeon noticed a significant bulge in the area of James’ previous hernia mesh surgery.

On Aug. 27, 2013, the plaintiff came back to the office again, this time with extreme pain in the area of the hernias. According to this hernia mesh product failure lawsuit, James was immediately sent back into surgery to repair the problem.

The surgeons discovered a piece of James’ bowel inside the hernia sac that was inflamed and ecchymotic, which means that the blood vessels had ruptured and blood had escaped into surrounding tissue.

Surgeons placed the bowel back into his abdomen and repaired the hernia once more, this time with a medium sized C-Qur Mesh hernia patch.

A couple weeks after surgery, James was unable to produce a bowel movement for several days and had begun vomiting. His abdomen was tight and distended and was continuing to grow.

According to this hernia mesh product failure lawsuit, James was taken into the emergency room when doctors discovered an elevated white blood count of 18.4. The normal range of a white blood cell count is 4.5 to 11.0. An increased count may indicate an infection.

When James went into emergency surgery, the doctors drained an abscess and attempted to remove the infected mesh patches.

The surgeons noted, “We took out at least 2 pieces of mesh. There might have been 3 pieces, it was hard to tell if it was coming out piecemeal or intact, but all the mesh was removed secondary to infection in the pelvis and the fact it had not been incorporated into the tissues adequately.”

A large amount of pus was removed and the doctors were forced to perform a colon resection and colostomy.

Because of the hernia mesh product failure, James was forced to undergo several more surgeries to repair additional hernias as well as continued complications from the original surgeries.

During these surgeries, additional Atrium mesh products were implanted in James. James continued to suffer complications from the Atrium products, including pain, abdominal distention, scarring, torn mesh, seroma around the hernia sac.

At all times the Atrium mesh products were used within the bounds of what they were intended for and James holds Atrium responsible for the hernia mesh product failure.

If you or someone you love has experienced a hernia mesh product failure, you might be entitled to legal compensation.