2018年4月13日 · Endo International plc (Endo) acquired device maker American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc. (AMS) in 2011. Endo has agreed to pay out roughly $2.6 billion to settle cases claiming injuries from its vaginal mesh devices, which include the Perigee, Apogee and Elevate implants. The company has stopped making AMS transvaginal mesh.

2025年3月17日 · Transvaginal mesh lawsuits, also known as pelvic mesh lawsuits, claim that several manufacturers of transvaginal mesh knew that their products were defective and could cause complications such as erosion, organ perforation, severe pain, painful sex, mesh migration and other serious issues that require surgery to remove the mesh.

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2017年5月17日 · Method: Clinical data from eight patients of incomplete male SUI caused by surgery or trauma, which were ineffective to the conservative treatment and pelvic floor muscle training, and then treated by a modified novel technique using transobturator sling device (TVT-O, AMS, USA) in our hospital from Oct.2007 to Sep.2016 were retrospectively ...

保守治疗及盆底肌肉锻炼等处理无效的患者,利用ams女性专用tvt-o吊带术套装,采用经设计改进的会阴- 闭孔男性球部尿道悬吊技术治疗的临床资料,评价其临床疗效。

2014年7月1日 · Since 1996, when Ulmsten et al2 published the initial paper about retropubic tension-free vaginal tape (TVT), the use of synthetic midurethral slings (MUS) has grown to become the most common surgery performed for SUI in women. 3 This type of surgery has evolved to also include options of obturator passage and smaller, single-incision synthetic ...

2014年1月1日 · Surgical treatment for SUI has rapidly evolved and the initially introduced mid-urethral sling, retropubic tension-free vaginal tape (TVT), is accepted worldwide as a standard treatment for women suffering from SUI. However, slings have been associated with a few early and delayed complications which may result in varying degrees of morbidity.

2005年6月1日 · It was 2.5 hours in the case of patient with abdominal urethropexy and laparoscopic promontofixation associated with TVT, and 3 hours for the patient with combined laparoscopic promontofixation and AMS sphincter.

The Gynecare TVT Secur was only tested on sheep and 31 human women for five weeks before mass distribution. Endo and subsidiary American Medical System (AMS) Apogee Vaginal Vault Prolapse Repair System, Perigee Transobturator Anterior Prolapse Repair System, Elevate

We then tabulated the results by type of complication, by date of occurrence, and by type of sling (ObTapeTM by Mentor, MonarcTM by AMS, and TVTTM Obturator System by Gynecare). All three trans-obturator systems have been available in the United States since January 2004.