Injured by the Boston Scientific Taxus Heart Stent?
Taxus Stents
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New data indicate that Boston Scientific Taxus stents may cause 4,500 heart attacks every year, up to 2,000 of them fatal. This increased risk, moreover, could persist for a lifetime, requiring patients to take blood thinners for the rest of their lives, thereby facing the sometimes fatal side effects of those drugs.
Update: Schmidt & Clark is no longer accepting Heart Stent cases.
What is the Taxus Stent?
The Taxus stent is a small, lattice-shaped, metal tube that is inserted permanently into an artery. The heart stent helps to hold open an artery so that blood can flow through it.
The Taxus stent contains drugs that can potentially reduce the chance of arteries becoming blocked again.
UPDATED MUST READ ARTICLES: The New Evidence of Life-Threatening Side Effects (2006)
1. The Alarming "NEW" Truth About Medicated Stents - "There's so much evidence" of the new danger regarding medicated or drug-eluting heart stents, says Spencer King, the Piedmont Hospital cardiologist who in 1987 implanted the first stent in North America.
2. FDA Approved - Medical Device Manufacturer Loophole - FDA 510(k) - It's appalling that the manufacturers of heart/cardiac stents brought a product to market that has been implanted into more than 4 million people without ever performing proper clinical trials.
3. Why Were These Devices Approved By The FDA In The First Place? - A device can be approved with few or no clinical trials if it is deemed "substantially equivalent" to a gadget that existed before 1976.
