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Angioplasty using Taxus Stents:

First, stenting is a catheter-based procedure in which a small, expandable wire mesh tube (the stent) is inserted into a diseased or damaged artery, serving as a scaffold to hold it open. Stents are placed within a coronary artery with plaque buildup and then expanded against the plaque by blowing up a balloon. Once the stent has been expanded in order to compress the plaque and hold it into place, the baloon is then deflated and the catheter is removed.

In some patients who received the Taxus stent, doctors have been unable to deflate the balloon after expanding the stent resulting in the patient requiring emergency bypass surgery.

Boston Scientific, the manufacturer, has, twice, recalled some of the “Taxus Express 2 Coronary Stent Systems” because of malfunction in the delivery catheters – delivery catheters that have the potential to impede balloon deflation during a coronary angioplasty procedure.

If you or a family member sustained serious injury or even experienced a death in the family during the surgical implantation of a Boston Scientific stent, you may be entitled to file a claim against the manufacturer for money damages.

Patients who have already received implanted stents of this type through a successful operation are not affected by the recall because the problem arises only during the surgery during which the stent is implanted.

Attorney Ted Bills has one mission – to fight for the rights of personal injury victims and those who have been devastated by the misconduct of others – he represents clients which an aggressive approach designed to provide SWIFT justice. Attorney Bills is a member of the American Bar Association, the Colorado Bar Association, the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, and the El Paso County (Colorado Springs) Bar Association. He works in tandem with his clients to provide assertive, business-savvy, legal services that solve problems, reduce delays, and minimize costs.