Patients with recently-implanted heart stents, vascular stents or grafts are wondering if they are going to be affected by the tainted heparin scare, after the US Food and Drug Administration last week alerted medical device manufacturers that they should review their sources of heparin. Some medical devices, including devices used in pulmonary bypass and in-vitro diagnostic procedures, are coated with heparin...
Patients with recently-implanted heart stents, vascular stents or grafts are wondering if they are going to be affected by the tainted heparin scare, after the US Food and Drug Administration last week alerted medical device manufacturers that they should review their sources of heparin. Some medical devices, including devices used in pulmonary bypass and in-vitro diagnostic procedures, are coated with heparin...
Deaths linked to contaminated heparin have soared in recent months, with the death toll now standing at 62, up from 19. While no deaths have been reported since Baxter International, the giant pharmaceutical company and one of the world's leading suppliers of heparin recalled virtually all of its heparin product, the concern over heparin and suspected problems with the supply chain from China, remains...
