60 Minutes Story on Trasylol Kidney Failures and Heart Attacks
On Sunday, February 17, 2008, the CBS news show 60 Minutes, featured a story concerning the serious side effects from Bayer’s heart surgery drug called Trasylol. According to the 2006 study by medical researcher Dr. Dennis Mangano, the most serious and common complications associated with Trasylol were increased incidents of renal and kidney failure and heart attacks. His observational study included over 5000 patients around the world. When asked about his Trasylol study, Dr. Mangano told 60 Minutes’ that, “It showed an important association between Trasylol use and kidney failure requiring dialysis and it showed a trend towards increased death in hospitals in these patients.”
The 60 minutes story also profiled the Trasylol patient Joe Randone. He went in for heart valve replacement surgery at the age of 52. Following surgery where Trasylol was put in Mr. Randone’s IV, he suffered two heart attacks and kidney failure. In August 2006 Mr. Randone died from complications. The family has filed a Trasylol lawsuit against Bayer. Dr. Mangano estimated that 1000 lives per month could have been saved if the drug had been taken off the market after his Trasylol study was published.
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Trasylol Aprotinin Side Effects Study
Another study reveals an increased risk of serious Trasylol side effects leading to a higher mortality rate in aprotinin bypass patients. A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine on February 21, 2008 shows an increased risk of death for patients receiving aprotinin (Trasylol) during coronary-artery bypass grafting [...]
Trasylol Heart Surgery Drug Information
What is aprotinin injection?
APROTININ (Trasylol) is a drug that affects the way blood clots. It was given to heart surgery patients during bypass procedures. Aprotinin was mainly used during repeat coronary artery bypass surgery to reduce the amount of bleeding before and after surgery. Trasylol and other clotting medications help to [...]
An increasing number of studies have suggested Trasylol is a potentially dangerous drug and an expensive one. The cost per dose of Trasylol is $1,300. The generic drug Amicar is $11 per dose and the generic Cyklokapron is $44 per dose. According to the studies, neither of the generic drugs has been associated with an [...]
Patients and families nationwide have looked at filing a Trasylol lawsuit based on the often fatal side effects of the drug Trasylol. Currently no Trasylol class action suits have been filed by Fields Law Firm and claims are being made individually.
The lawsuits claim that Bayer, the drug’s manufacturer, was negligent in several ways including:
• marketing [...]