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Editor: Jamie Sheller
Profession: Trasylol Attorney

Category: Trasylol News

There were 235 reports submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for people that died following the use of the anti-bleeding drug Trasylol. The reports were only for the time period from 1993 to February 2006. The FDA is still reviewing data from March 2006 to the present. Trasylol was pulled from the market last month following a Canadian study that linked it to a higher rate of death.

The reports - from doctors, health-care providers and relatives - do not necessarily prove Trasylol killed the patients, Long said.

She could not give the number of deaths over the past 19 months - when such reports were expected to jump following several studies warning the drug could cause kidney damage, stroke and heart failure.

Trasylol is used in heart surgeries to reduce the amount of bleeding that occurs in some patients. It was approved for use by the FDA in 1993 and has been used around the world.