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Defective Medical Products
- Medicines
- AMO Complete Moistureplus Recall
- Botox
- Chromium Poisoning (Toxicity)
- Compounding Pharmacy Error
- Fentanyl
- Fentanyl Lawsuit
- Fentanyl Patch Recall
- Fleet Lawsuit - Phosphate Nephropathy Kidney Failure
- Fleet Renal Failure
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- Fleet Phospho-Soda Recall
- Fleet Recall
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- Fleet Laxative Lawsuit
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- Fosamax Osteonecrosis Jaw
- Hydroxycut Lawsuit
- Hydroxycut Recall
- Levaquin Lawsuit
- NuvaRing Death
- Organon NuvaRing Lawsuit
- Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch
- Selenium Poisoning (Toxicity)
- Total Body Formula Recall and Lawsuit
- Trasylol and Kidney Failure
- Trasylol - Lawyer and Lawsuit
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NuvaRing Pulmonary Embolism Risk
The prescribing information for NuvaRing1 provided by Organon USA, Inc. states this about the risk of a NuvaRing pulmonary embolism:
Several epidemiology studies indicate that third generation oral contraceptives, including those containing desogestrel (etonogestrel, the progestin in NuvaRing®, is the biologically active metabolite of desogestrel), are associatedwith a higher risk of venous thromboembolism than certain second generation oral contraceptives. In general, these studies indicate an approximate two-fold increased risk.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a disease that includes deep vein thrombosis ( DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). A pulmonary embolism occurs when a segment of a thrombus (A clot within a blood vessel) within the deep venous system detaches from the vessel, travels to the lungs, and lodges within the pulmonary arteries.
In one case, an otherwise-healthy 32-year-old mother of two died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism:
"She was 32-years-old, never sick a day in her life. The only thing she did different was use this NuvaRing," he says.
. . . Jackie had been using NuvaRing for six months. Her autopsy shows the blood clot traveled through her pelvic region and lodged in her lungs. . . ."We believe the hormones are just as dangerous as other hormones in oral contraceptives. Essentially they are creating these clots," says Carmen Scott, an attorney representing NuvaRing.
Scott says she's handling 50 NuvaRing cases.2
Pritzker | Olsen, P.A. is a national law firm and represents people injured by defective medical products and the families of people whose deaths were caused by defective medical products.
We have gained a national reputation, and attorneys at our firm have been interviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Lawyers USA and other publications. In recognition of their accomplishments, attorneys at our firm have been named “Super Lawyers” by Law & Politics magazine and been listed in The Best Lawyers in America. They are sought-after speakers and regularly conduct seminars for other lawyers on complex legal issues. Contact us about NuvaRing stroke, NuvaRing heart attack, Nuvaring death and an Organon NuvaRing lawsuit.
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Footnotes:
1. NuvaRing full precribing information accessed from the Organon USA, Inc. NuvaRing website, www.nuvaring.com, December 20, 2008.
2. Tom Rivers, "Man Sues Birth Control Company In Wife's Death," April 2, 2008, CBS, <http://cbs13.com/health/nuvaring.death.lawsuit.2.690335.html>
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