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Editor: Jamie Sheller
Profession: Trasylol Attorney

Category: Trasylol News

As more data is released, people are able to see just how widespread and devastating the effects of Trayslol are. In Florida, it is estimated that nearly 10,000 patients have either lost their lives or seriously compromised their health as a result of Trayslol. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/10143/trasylol-10000.html According to Dr. Dennis Magano, approximately 22,000 lives could have been saved if the manufacturers of Trasylol would have taken the product off the market two years earlier than the recall. At that time, the manufacturer had enough evidence to determine that Trasylol was potentially harmful.

"Instead, Bayer is alleged to have suppressed evidence and soft-pedaled the issue in an effort to keep Trasylol on the market. It was only when faced with insurmountable evidence suggesting Trasylol was potentially harmful, that Bayer finally acted and pulled Trasylol altogether." http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/10143/trasylol-10000.html

"At its peak, Trasylol was being used in two-thirds of all open-heart surgical procedures.

Mangano estimates that over the two years between his original call for the removal of Trasylol, and when the drug was finally recalled last November 431,000 patients were administered the drug. Of those, Mangano calculates that 22,000 died. That leaves 409,000 who either were not affected by the drug, or are having to deal with a litany of health problems and adverse effects, not the least of which is renal failure, or failure of the kidney. Heart attack and stroke has also been linked to Trasylol.

What raises Viles' ire is the fact that patients are not routinely told what drugs are used during their surgery, unless the patient is proactive and request their medical records.

Therefore, patients could have been given Trasylol during the course of an open-heart surgical procedure and never know it." http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/10143/trasylol-10000.html