Wellbutrin May Cause Left Hypoplastic Heart Syndrome: Attorney Injury Help
July 27, 2010
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Our team of Wellbutrin lawyers are offering free nationwide case evaluations to families whose children were diagnosed with medical conditions at birth or shortly therafter when the mother ingested Wellbutrin or Bupropion during pregnancy including Left Hypoplastic Heart Syndrome.
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (also known as HLHS), is a rare congenital heart defect in which the left side of the heart is severely underdeveloped. In babies with HLHS, the aorta and left ventricle are very small, and the aortic and mitral valves are either too small to allow sufficient blood flow or are atretic (closed) altogether. As blood returns from the lungs to the left atrium, it must pass through an atrial septal defect to the right side of the heart. In cases of HLHS, the right side of the heart often must pump blood to the body through a patent ductus arteriosus. As the ductus arteriosus usually closes within eleven days after birth, blood flow is severely restricted and eventually cut off, leading to dangerously low circulation and eventually to shock.
Without life-prolonging interventions, HLHS is fatal, but with intervention, an infant may survive. A pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon may perform a series of operations or a full heart transplant. In the meantime, the ductus may be kept open to allow blood-flow using medication containing prostaglandin. Because these operations are complex and need to be individualized for each patient, a cardiologist must assess all medical and surgical options on a case-by-case basis.
Currently, infants who undergo either the staged reconstructive surgery or who undergo cardiac transplantation have a 5-year survival of approximately 60%. Further, studies show that about 50% of those children who survive surgery have developmental delay or need special education. About 25% of surgical survivors have severe disabilities.
If you or a loved one took Wellbutrin during early pregnancy and had a child born with a birth defect, this side effect may be associated with Wellbutrin. Our team of Wellbutrin / Bupropion attorneys are currently reviewing potential Wellbutrin lawsuits. If you have a question or have suffered serious side effects, we can be reached for a no cost and no obligation consultation by calling 1-800-604-1404.
A member of our team, Ed Wallis, is an attorney currently representing clients who have taken several prescription drugs and claim injuries associated with those drugs, including Wellbutrin, Yaz, Accutane and Reglan. He also represents clients across the globe pertaining to medical device failures, including the Advanced Bionics HiRes90k cochlear implant and the Gynecare Prolift transvaginal mesh – sling. For a free case evaluation, please contact:
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Birth Defects After Taking Wellbutrin: Attorney Injury Help
July 22, 2010
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Our firm is offering free nationwide case evaluations to families whose children were diagnosed with medical conditions at birth or shortly therafter when the mother ingested Wellbutrin or Bupropion during pregnancy. Specific birth defects include cardiac malformations (ASD, VSD, Left Hypoplastic Heart Syndrome, coarctation of the aorta, Tricuspid or Pulmonary Atresia, Pulmonary Stenosis, transposition of the great vessels or any other heart defect), neural tube defect, craniosynostosis, and club foot.
If you or a loved one took Wellbutrin during early pregnancy and had a child born with a birth defect, this side effect may be associated with Wellbutrin. Attorney Ed Wallis is currently reviewing potential Wellbutrin lawsuits. If you have a question or have suffered serious side effects, Wellbutrin lawyer Ed Wallis can be reached by email or by calling +1 901.275.0600.
Ed Wallis is an attorney currently representing clients who have taken several prescription drugs and claim injuries associated with those drugs, including Wellbutrin, Yaz, Accutane and Reglan. He also represents clients across the globe pertaining to medical device failures, including the Advanced Bionics HiRes90k cochlear implant and the Gynecare Prolift transvaginal mesh – sling. For a free case evaluation, please contact:
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Manufacturer of Wellbutrin Settles Cases for Another Prescription Drug
July 22, 2010
$1 Billion To Be Paid for Families
The Wall Street Journal (7/20, Stovall) reported that on July 20, GlaxoSmithKline announced in a company email that it settled certain suits claiming that its antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) caused birth defects in the babies of certain users who took the medication while pregnant. GlaxoSmithKline is also the manufacturer of Wellbutrin, of which we are accepting FREE CASE EVALUATIONS across the country.
“GlaxoSmithKline Plc has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to resolve more than 800 cases…according to people familiar with the settlements,” Bloomberg News (7/21, Feeley, Kelley) reports. “The accords, which provide an average payout of more than $1.2 million to families of affected children, leave more than 100 birth-defect cases pending, the people said.” According to Carl Tobias, who teaches courses on mass-tort law at the University of Richmond Law School, the “$1.25 million average recovery in the Paxil birth- defect cases reflects the seriousness of the injuries and the fact that many of cases involved children with heart defects.”
Wellbutrin (bupropion HCI), which is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, was first approved by FDA as an antidepressant in December 1985. The drug was shortly thereafter taken off the market after there were a large number of seizures associated with the medication. The latest study, after looking at 12,700 children born in the U.S. between 1997 and 2004, found that mothers who used Wellbutrin/bupropion during their first trimester were more than twice as likely to give birth to an infant with a congenital heart problem known as a left outflow tract defect.
The heart birth defect can restrict the flow of blood to the rest of the body from the heart’s left chambers, and often must be surgically corrected to allow the child’s main artery to function properly. Medical bills and pain and suffering are likely. We are standing by ready to help you.
Bupropion is marketed as Wellbutrin, Wellbutrin XL, and Wellbutrin XR.
If you or a loved one took Wellbutrin during early pregnancy and had a child born with a birth defect, this side effect may be associated with Wellbutrin. Attorney Ed Wallis is currently reviewing potential Wellbutrin lawsuits. If you have a question or have suffered serious side effects, Wellbutrin lawyer Ed Wallis can be reached by email or by calling +1 901.275.0600.
Ed Wallis is an attorney currently representing clients who have taken several prescription drugs and claim injuries associated with those drugs, including Wellbutrin, Yaz, Accutane and Reglan. He also represents clients across the globe pertaining to medical device failures, including the Advanced Bionics HiRes90k cochlear implant and the Gynecare Prolift transvaginal mesh – sling. For a free case evaluation, please contact:
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Tennessee Medical Malpractice Lawyer: Harvard to Implement Tougher Conflict of Interest Rules
July 22, 2010
The Boston Globe has reported on its front page that ”Harvard Medical School will prohibit its 11,000 faculty from giving promotional talks for drug and medical device makers and accepting personal gifts, travel, or meals, under a new policy intended partly to guard against companies’ use of Harvard’s prestige to market their products.” These “conflict-of-interest rules also place stricter limits on the income faculty can earn from companies for consulting, joining boards, and other work; require public reporting of payments of at least $5,000 on a medical school website; and promise more robust internal reporting and monitoring of these relationships.” In addition, “Harvard, which provides continuing medical education for tens of thousands of doctors worldwide…will erect a more solid firewall between itself and healthcare companies during these courses.”
This is a smart move, considering that doctors who accept lucrative “consulting” or bonus agreements to choose a product are not necessarily objectively thinking about the safety of their patients. As medical malpractice lawyers in Tennessee, Eastern Arkansas and North Mississippi, we applaud the efforts of Harvard to clean up the already-muddy waters of drug company/device company payments to doctors.
If you or a loved one believes you are the victim of medical malpractice and have sustained an injury to yourself or your child, infant, parent or loved one, please call us today for a free case evaluation: (901) 527-2125.
Attorneys Tim Edwards and Ed Wallis practice medical malpractice law in Memphis, Tennessee and throughout West Tennessee and the Mid South area, including Eastern Arkansas, Northern Mississippi and West Tennessee. Mr. Edwards and Mr. Wallis are prepared to discuss the facts of your case and try and determine if there is a way to help you. We are committed to a personal relationship with our clients. When you retain us to help you, you will have our cell phone numbers and direct numbers to our desks so that we can be reached when you need us.
Medical malpractice is a complex area of the law, and you should immediately contact an attorney willing to provide detailed and thorough review of your case for you. Do not be fooled by the gimics of a quick check from a television ad; for a medical malpractice case, Advanced Bionics cochlear implant recall case, a Transvaginal Mesh case, or a laser eye surgery case, you need a serious attorney who will work seriously on your behalf.
Mr. Edwards and Mr. Wallis accept clients on a natiowide basis for the prescription drugs Wellbutrin, Accutane, Reglan, Levaquin, Januvia, and Yaz. Mr. Wallis and Mr. Edwards ar representing clients internationally for the Advanced Bionics cochlear implant, and nationally on Gynecare prolift transvaginal mesh, tape, sling device.
For immediate help:
CALL: (901) 527-2125
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Buproprion Attorney for Heart Defects
July 21, 2010
Free Nationwide Case Evaluations Available: Fill Out Form to Right or Call (901) 527-2125.
Attorney Ed Wallis is currently reviewing potential Wellbutrin / Buproprion lawsuits involving women who took Wellbutrin during early pregnancy and suffered adverse side effects. Wellbutrin (Buproprion), an antidepressant prescription drug generically called Bupropion hydrochloride, has been linked in a recent study to serious side effects in women who take this drug during early pregnancy. This study, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, suggests that women who take Wellbutrin during early pregnancy may run a greater risk for having a child born with a heart birth defect. This includes left outflow heart defects.
Wellbutrin (bupropion HCI), which is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, was first approved by FDA as an antidepressant in December 1985. The drug was shortly thereafter taken off the market after there were a large number of seizures associated with the medication.
FOR A FREE COPY OF THE STUDY PLEASE CLICK HERE.
The latest study, after looking at 12,700 children born in the U.S. between 1997 and 2004, found that mothers who used Wellbutrin/bupropion during their first trimester were more than twice as likely to give birth to an infant with a congenital heart problem known as a left outflow tract defect.
The heart birth defect can restrict the flow of blood to the rest of the body from the heart’s left chambers, and often must be surgically corrected to allow the child’s main artery to function properly. Medical bills and pain and suffering are likely. We are standing by ready to help you.
Bupropion is marketed as Wellbutrin, Wellbutrin XL, and Wellbutrin XR.
If you or a loved one took Wellbutrin during early pregnancy and had a child born with a birth defect, this side effect may be associated with Wellbutrin. Attorney Ed Wallis is currently reviewing potential Wellbutrin lawsuits. If you have a question or have suffered serious side effects, Wellbutrin lawyer Ed Wallis can be reached by email or by calling +1 901.275.0600.
Ed Wallis is an attorney currently representing clients who have taken several prescription drugs and claim injuries associated with those drugs, including Wellbutrin, Yaz, Accutane and Reglan. He also represents clients across the globe pertaining to medical device failures, including the Advanced Bionics HiRes90k cochlear implant and the Gynecare Prolift transvaginal mesh – sling. For a free case evaluation, please contact:
DURING WORKING HOURS: (901) 527-2125
AFTER HOURS/WEEKENDS: (901) 275-0600
EMAIL: click here
FILL OUT THIS FORM:
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