Bard IVC Filters May Tilt, Migrate and Perforate The Artery Where They Were Implanted

Bard IVC filters have been causing hundreds of injuries and more than 25 deaths

Monday, October 11, 2021 - The Bard IVC filter may have never been safe, and representations to the contrary are incorrect. Doctors have known since around the year 2005, that the they caused so many problems and fractured, so often that they should have been recalled. Dr. William Kuo, an interventional radiologist who runs Stanford Health Cares IVC Filter Clinic, told NBC News, "All of the data that we've seen in our studies, as well as other clinician researchers' is that this device consistently fractures, consistently causes major complications. The number of complications, the frequency of severe failures make it obvious that it was never safe to be implanted." Thousands of Bard IVC filter lawsuits have been filed alleging the company has brought a faulty medical device to market.

Such a damning condemnation of the medical device has fallen on deaf ears as CR Bard continues to sell the filters and doctors continue to implant them despite the FDA releasing its first Bard IVC filter warning in 2010. IVC filters are now officially accountable for more than 25 deaths. DrugWatch.com explained, "Bard recalled 1,183 Denali devices in 2015. ... Most of the recalls were for packaging or labeling errors. Despite hundreds of reported injuries, Cook Medical and Bard never recalled the filters named in lawsuits against them." DW reports that there are about 1000 complaints against IVC filters made to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) each year and, "as of May 2018, there were more than 8,000 active IVC filter lawsuits."

Bard IVC filters are used on patients that have had traumatic injuries and are at risk of severe blood clotting and also for patients that are prone to blood clotting where chemical blood thinners are ineffective. The filters are spider-like contraptions that are inserted through a catheter inserted with minimally invasive surgery into the upper left thigh and then snaked into place in the inferior vena cava, a major artery. Once extruded, the IVC filter will trap blood clots with hooks on the ends of its tentacles. The filter stays in place by creating scar tissue making it difficult to remove without fracturing it into small pieces. Lawsuits claim that the device broke into pieces during the removal process, leaving pieces that became trapped in smaller veins causing bleeding and infection or worse. Twenty-Seven people have died from IVC fragments that made their way to the heart and lungs as a result of IVC filter extraction.

Lawsuits against CR Bard, the maker of IVC filters, have been consolidated in multidistrict litigations to avoid repetitive court proceedings. During MDL, decisions about which experts each side will be allowed to call as witnesses will be made. Court documents filed in the state of Arizona indicate there are more than 3,000 personal injury cases against Defendants C. R. Bard, Inc. and Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. (collectively Bard), the device's manufacturer." Plaintiffs allege the Bard IVC filter implant is defective and has caused suffer injury or death. The most serious of the charges is that the company has failed to adequately warn plaintiffs that the device could not be retrieved with any degree of safety. The device may collect many blood clots if not removed and become a source of clots in the future.

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