Trasylol Kidney Failure | Trasylol Class Action Lawsuits
Patients and families across the United States have filed Trasylol lawsuits based on the devastating side effects of the drug. Currently no Trasylol class action suits have been filed and claims are being filed individually. The lawsuits claim that Bayer, the drug’s manufacturer, was negligent in multiple ways including:
• marketing and selling Trasylol as a safe and effective medication for heart surgery patients
• failing to adequately warn patients of unreasonable and dangerous side effects some of which were fatal
• failing to conduct adequate pre-clinical testing and post-marketing studies to determine the safety and side effects of Trasylol
• failing to use ordinary care in designing, testing and manufacturing Trasylol
Bayer’s Trasylol heart surgery side effects have recently been linked to an increased rate of kidney failure, heart attack, and death in the five years following a patient undergoing heart surgery.
In 1993, Trasylol (also referred to as “aprotinin”) received FDA approval for use in certain types of heart surgeries. Until recently, Trasylol was used to reduce the amount of blood a patient loses both during and after a surgery. However, a mounting controversy surrounded the continued use of Trasylol, and in February of 2006, the FDA issued a public health advisory warning physicians to limit use of Trasylol.
A recent study based on observations at 69 leading cardiac centers around the world was published regarding Bayer Pharmaceutical’s heart surgery drug Trasylol. Kidney failure, heart failure, and stroke are side effects associated with Trasylol heart surgery patients according to the study published by Mangano et al. in January 2006 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
On September 21, 2006, the FDA met to investigate the dangers of Trasylol. Although Bayer appeared to cooperate with this FDA investigation, it was later learned that Bayer was withholding data from a study which revealed Trasylol causes serious and potentially deadly side-effects. The FDA learned that Bayer did not disclose this important data shortly after the FDA completed its investigation. However, the FDA learned about this data only because a scientist from Bayer’s study tipped off the FDA. Bayer failed to willingly disclose the data to the FDA even when Bayer representatives met with FDA officials to go over the dangers of Trasylol, and even though numerous FDA officials commented to Bayer that they needed more data. Following increasing studies showing the serious risks of Trasylol, Bayer finally removed Trasylol from the marketplace in November 2007.
Most heart surgery patients don't know if they were given Trasylol during their open heart surgery. Many patients suffering from Trasylol kidney damage side effects don't know if they were given Trasylol during their surgery because the surgeon made the decision whether to administer the drug to stop excessive bleeding during surgery.
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COLOGNE, Germany – Bayer’s CEO stated that Bayer AG is facing 78 Trasylol lawsuits in the United States as a result of its heart surgery drug. "We are not aware of any lawsuit outside the United States," Werner Wenning told a shareholders' meeting. 
Drug Administration, a “marketing suspension” of its heart surgery drug which has been associated with serious risks such as kidney failure, heart problems and death. Trasylol is a drug that was designed to control bleeding during heart surgery. Two weeks before the FDA’s announcement, researchers from the Ottawa Health Institute notified the FDA that they had stopped a study on Trasylol because it appeared to increase the risk of death for patients, compared to two other drugs used in the study. 
Trasylol, an expensive medication given to heart surgery bypass patients during their surgical procedure to help prevent excessive bleeding may have caused staggering numbers of heart failure, kidney failure and strokes. Patients undergoing cardiac surgery were unaware that Trasylol, a medication manufactured by Bayer, has been found in clinical studies to lead to greater risk of death, stroke, and acute kidney failure. 
In March 2008 the New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial – Learning from Aprotinin – Mandatory Trials of Comparative Efficacy and Safety Needed. They concluded the problems that have surfaced regarding Trasylol are going to be repeated in other drugs unless the FDA institutes changes in the requirements of postmarketing studies and restrictions on drug distribution and use. The magnitude of Trasylol side effects and the potentially fatal consequences that have affected tens of thousands of heart surgery patients are becoming more and more apparent. 
Following the Trasylol study Blood conservation using antifibrinolytics: A randomized trial in a cardiac surgery population (BART) published in the May 14, 2008online issue of The New England Journal of Medicine study, Bayer decided to remove the remaining supplies of Trasylol from hospitals. This is the latest in a growing number of studies showing the dangers of Trasylol. In November 2007, Bayer agreed to suspend marketing their heart surgery drug Trasylol (aprotinin) after preliminary results from a Canadian study that revealed an increased risk of death for patients given Trasylol during bypass surgery. .jpg)
Another study reveals an increased risk of significant Trasylol side effects leading to a higher mortality rate in aprotinin recipients. 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 (CABG). The researchers analyzed hospital data from over 33,000 heart surgery patients who received Trasylol and around 45,000 patients who received aminocaproic acid. 