Angioplasty and By-Pass Surgery

Carol Rosenbloom Associates, LLC | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Angioplasty and Bypass Surgery Attorney ● Medical Malpractice Lawyer

A new study found that in non emergency situations patients who had angioplasty were no less likely to suffer a heart attack or die than those who took aspirin and other medicines to thin their blood and lower blood pressure and cholesterol along with adopting life style changes.

Even routine and rudimentary surgical procedures, such as angioplasty, whether or not anesthesia is required, involve a certain amount of risk. More complicated surgeries, such as bypass surgery, involve a greater amount of risk. We accept these dangers because surgery is often required to save or dramatically improve the quality of our lives.

But heart surgeons are human and may make mistakes because they are tired, overworked, distracted by events in their personal lives, or negligent. If you suspect that your serious medical condition, stroke or a family member's death was the result of medical malpractice, contact an angioplasty and bypass surgery lawyer at Carol Rosenbloom Associates, LLC, to schedule a free initial consultation.

At Carol Rosenbloom Associates, LLC, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, our attorneys have considerable experience handling medical malpractice and wrongful death claims arising from medical errors which occurred during angioplasty and heart bypass surgery.

Every year 800,000 angioplasty procedures are performed in the United States to open clogged arteries. An angioplasty is a procedure in which the blocked arteries are opened with a balloon. Often stents or metal sleeves are inserted into the artery to keep them propped open after a medical procedure, such as, an angioplasty or bypass surgery. However, these bare metal stents tend to form new blockages, a process called restenosis. An experimental stent has been designed to dissolve after doing its job, leaving nothing behind to trigger blood clots.

Companies such as Boston Scientific which manufactures the Taxus stent and Johnson & Johnson which manufactures the Cypher stent developed a drug coated stent that significantly reduces the rate of restenosis.

However, the FDA has received reports that the balloon has failed to deflate and the physicians have difficulty removing the balloon after stent placement, such as the balloon getting stuck on the stent when removing the balloon. Unfortunately, these reports have been linked to a death and serious injuries.

The manufactures have reported an increased risk of developing blood clots after using the drug coated stents.

An error or malfunction during an angioplasty or heart bypass surgery often results in a stroke or a heart attack which the angioplasty or bypass surgery was intended to prevent. To build a strong claim and to obtain a verdict or fair settlement on your behalf, our firm works with medical professionals and experts to find out how and why the operation went wrong.

Such a malfunction occurred in a case in which a Washington Sate jury awarded $40.1 million to a man whose heart was damaged so badly by a malfunctioning machine during an operation that he had to undergo a heart transplant. The man had checked into a hospital for cardiac bypass surgery when a monitor manufactured by a California company malfunctioned causing a catheter to overheat and burn his heart.

We offer free initial consultations. The majority of our services are provided on a contingent fee basis. This means you will pay no attorneys' fees unless we are able to achieve a verdict or settlement on your behalf.

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The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, law firm of Carol Rosenbloom Associates, LLC represents families and individuals in personal injury, medical malpractice, disability insurance bad faith, and workers' compensation. We serve clients throughout Allegheny County, Butler County, Westmoreland County, Cambria County, Blair County, Indiana County, Somerset County, Beaver County, Fayette County, Greene County, and Armstrong County, and areas including Monroeville, Wexford, Cranberry Township, Butler, Greensburg, Ford City, Murrysville, New Kensington, Johnstown, Ebensburg, Altoona, Hollidaysburg, Indiana, Somerset, Beaver, Beaver Falls, Aliquippa, Uniontown, Connellsville, Waynesburg, and Kittanning.