A plaintiff, Linda D., has filed an abdominal mesh complications lawsuit in Georgia federal court against the manufacturers of the hernia mesh, Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon Inc.

According to the abdominal mesh complications lawsuit, Linda alleges that she developed serious adverse effects and complications resulting from the insertion or implantation of the Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh Device.

The product, according to the abdominal mesh complications lawsuit, was to help treat an incisional hernia from which she was suffering.

According to the abdominal mesh complications lawsuit, Linda was implanted with the hernia mesh product in October 2013 at Harton Regional Medical Center KNA Tenova Heart and Healthcare Horton in Tullahoma, Tenn.

Although the function of the hernia mesh is to help treat her condition and remedy her hernia, the implantation, caused her condition to become steadily worse, she claims.

According to the abdominal mesh complications lawsuit, Linda was admitted into Unity Medical Center in Manchester, Tenn. on Jan. 16, 2017. She was allegedly admitted for complications that had suffered from the hernia mesh.

The abdominal mesh complications lawsuit iterates, however, that when admitted she had to undergo an “extremely difficult” surgery to in fact remove the previously implanted hernia mesh because it, “had separated from the lower quadrant of her body and was “stuck” to the hernia sac.”

According to the abdominal mesh complications lawsuit, a new hernia mesh was then implanted to “repair the recurrent incisional hernia.”

Abdominal Mesh Complications Lawsuit Facts

Linda’s claim is filed as part of a large multidistrict litigation, or MDL, centered on allegations that the Physiomesh was defectively designed and manufactured and is not safe for intended use for hernia repair.

The lawsuits allege that the Physiomesh causes an unreasonable risk for severe adverse reactions and complications.

According to the abdominal mesh complications lawsuit, severe adverse reactions include, but are not limited to: “chronic pain, recurrence of hernia; foreign body response; rejection; infection; inadequate or failure of incorporation/ingrowth; migration; scarification; deformation of mesh; improper wound healing; excessive and chronic inflammation; adhesions to internal organs; erosion; abcess; fistula formation; granulomatous response; seroma formation; nerve damage; tissue damage and/or death; and other complications.”

The abdominal mesh complications lawsuit alleges that the Physiomesh is uniquely designed to cause an intense inflammatory and chronic foreign body response.

The lawsuit contends that the body will see the hernia mesh and result in an intense, inflammatory reaction that includes, “migration and damage to surrounding tissue in the form of sclerotic, granulomatous and/or fibrotic tissue, and improper healing.”

According to the lawsuit, the hernia mesh provides a breeding ground for bacteria and as such, the bacteria cannot be eliminated by the body through its auto-immune response. This thereby allows the bacteria to proliferate.

The abdominal mesh complications lawsuit iterates that the defendants should have well known that the Physiomesh is cytotoxic and causes auto-immune responses to it.

The Abdominal Mesh Complications Lawsuit is Case No. 1:17-cv-03387-RWS, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division.