Mississippi St. Jude Aortic Connector Lawyer

St. Jude Aortic Connector Lawsuits

The St. Jude Symmetry Bypass Aortic Connector has been associated with a high occurrence of heart attacks and respiratory failure, and has also been linked to several deaths. The adverse effects associated with the St. Jude Symmetry Bypass Aortic Connector include graft narrowing, valve leakage, failed deployment, and occlusion.

The St. Jude Medical Symmetry device was approved in 2001 after an abbreviated approval process and has since been used in heart bypass surgery. Thousands of the devices have been implanted during coronary bypass surgery, mostly in "off pump" or "beating heart" procedures where surgeons do not place the patient on the heart lung machine.

Despite adverse reports, the manufacturer neither conducted clinical trials or testing of a larger segment of the post-cardiac bypass population, nor have they made any alterations in design or manufacture that would decrease the danger that the aortic connector poses to patients.

To aggravate matters, St. Jude Medical has not contacted the physicians or patients to emphasize the importance of regular monitoring and testing of patients with the Symmetry connector. The Symmetry Bypass Aortic Connector is still on the market and aggressively marketed by St. Jude Medical.