Legal Opinion
Gomez v. St. Jude Medical Daig Division Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 14, 2006No. 04-30202PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSENTHAL, District Judge:
In March 1999, Danell Gomez had a surgical catheterization to treat a blockage in an artery leading to her left arm. When the procedure was complete, the surgeon used a medical device known as an Angio-Seal to close the hole he had made in Gomez’s femoral artery to access the blockage. The Angio-Seal deposits a small plug of collagen on the outside of the artery wall at the puncture site. The collagen plug quickly causes a clot that stops the bleeding. The Angio-Seal includes an “anchor” intended to keep any of the collagen from traveling to the inside of the artery,…
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