Patterson v. Cardio-Thoracic Associates of Western New York, P. C.

Judgment unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict of no cause of action for medical malpractice. The jury found that the surgeon was negligent in failing to remove a sponge following debridement of plaintiff’s surgical wound, but that this negligence was not the proximate cause of plaintiff’s injuries.

*935Although plaintiffs experts testified that plaintiffs infection was aggravated by the presence of the sponge, defendants’ experts disagreed and testified that the sponge did not affect the course of the infection, which existed…