What Complications Can Cause Serious Personal Injuries Following a Failed Hernia Mesh Product?

If you have suffered many complications after your hernia mesh surgical procedure, it may be as a result of a defective hernia mesh product. In the case of a defective hernia mesh, you will be bringing an action against the manufacturer of the hernia mesh product. The people or company that makes the hernia mesh needs to be aware of the fitness of purpose of the hernia mesh. That means that the hernia mesh products that the company sells to hospitals and other doctor offices needs to be tested, reviewed and otherwise checked on many different levels of fitness, to ensure that they are safe and defect free.

If you have had a defective hernia mesh product used in your hernia surgery, it can result in many different types of complications, including:

• Wound infections
• Seroma formations
• Pain in the area of the surgery
• Swelling in the abdomen
• Chronic pain that won’t go away
• Debilitating pain prolonging recovery
• Chronic constipation
• Nerve damage
• Vascular complications
• Foreign body reaction
• Foreign body sensitivity
• Foreign body sensation
• Chronic inflammation
• Scarring
• Tissue damage

If you have suffered personal injuries on account of a defective hernia mesh product, you can call our legal team at the Law Offices of Gary K. Walch, and you can call us at 866-INJURY2 or 866-465-8792. We will review your personal injury claim and go over the next steps to initiating a lawsuit on the merits of your case.

If your hernia mesh product fails, it can cause an infection in your body. Wound infections and seroma infections can occur after even a successful hernia repair surgical procedure.¹ Once you develop a surgical site infection or a wound site infection, you can have serious problems with recovering and healing after your surgery. An infection can be found with the following symptoms:¹

• Redness
• Edema
• Increased temperature
• Purulent discharge

Remember, any type of infection or wound problem that you have after your hernia repair surgery will not heal itself. You need to be seen by a healthcare professional to take the proper steps to heal from your hernia surgical procedure.

If you experience a wound infection, you need to be seen at a hospital immediately, to ensure that the infection does not spread to other areas of the body. Any time that you have a hernia repair surgery and you are left with an ongoing wound infection, it is considered a serious to life-threatening situation. An infection in the wound may need to be treated aggressively with techniques that can include:¹

• Skin sterilization
• Reducing mesh
• Preoperative antibiotics
• Prophylactic antibiotic therapy
• Sterile wound prep

You need to talk to your medical provider or go to a hospital for review of your wound, in order to ensure that you are healing properly from your hernia repair surgical procedure. The pain and suffering and personal injuries that you sustain as a result of complications from the hernia repair surgery can be reviewed by our legal team. If you have questions regarding the worth, value or settlement procedures related to a hernia mesh product lawsuit, we are here to help. All that you need to do is to call our law office today to talk about your concerns. We are available to take your call at the Law Offices of Gary K. Walch, and you can call us at 866-INJURY2 or 866-465-8792.

¹Yabanoğlu, H., Arer, İ. M., & Çalıskan, K. (2015). The Effect of the Use of Synthetic Mesh Soaked in Antibiotic Solution on the Rate of Graft Infection in Ventral Hernias: A Prospective Randomized Study. International Surgery, 100(6), 1040–1047. https://doi.org/10.9738/INTSURG-D-14-00304.1