Post by Logan on Mar 28, 2016 5:27:01 GMT -6
SEATTLE – A software designer is suing a California company, claiming its medical device used to treat aneurysms malfunctioned and caused him to suffer brain damage.
The Penumbra Coil 400 was used to treat an aneurysm Dennis Montgomery suffered in 2013, according to his lawyer, Peter Mullenix. He said during the surgery at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, the doctor placed 90 percent of the coil into the aneurysm, but the last 10 percent got stuck in the intracranial artery, causing a stroke.
If the device had worked properly, the doctor should have been able to remove the coil and try a different approach, Mullenix said. Instead, the coil detached prematurely, he said. The coil and a stints used during the procedure remain in Montgomery’s brain and caused him to suffer a stroke, he said.
“When a coil system malfunctions and leaves the coil in the middle of the artery instead of safely inside the aneurysm, the coil starts throwing clots, which can turn into strokes,” Mullenix said. “That’s what happened to Dennis.”
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/mar/26/lawsuit-claims-medical-device-caused-brain-damage/
The Penumbra Coil 400 was used to treat an aneurysm Dennis Montgomery suffered in 2013, according to his lawyer, Peter Mullenix. He said during the surgery at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, the doctor placed 90 percent of the coil into the aneurysm, but the last 10 percent got stuck in the intracranial artery, causing a stroke.
If the device had worked properly, the doctor should have been able to remove the coil and try a different approach, Mullenix said. Instead, the coil detached prematurely, he said. The coil and a stints used during the procedure remain in Montgomery’s brain and caused him to suffer a stroke, he said.
“When a coil system malfunctions and leaves the coil in the middle of the artery instead of safely inside the aneurysm, the coil starts throwing clots, which can turn into strokes,” Mullenix said. “That’s what happened to Dennis.”
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/mar/26/lawsuit-claims-medical-device-caused-brain-damage/