How many lawsuits for Xiaflex used to treat Dupuytren’s contracture?

Posted on January 26, 2012March 6, 2023 by STL314

26 Jan

Lawsuits for Xiaflex difficult to count

“How do I find out how many lawsuits for Xiaflex injections there are for personal damage? The injection caused great harm and damage to my finger….including necrosis.”

The number of lawsuits for Xiaflex procedures is not widely available. This is not by accident. The medical and drug industries do not make that information public. Google “how many lawsuits for Xiaflex injections,” and no hard numbers come up. Perhaps a good attorney might be able to say how many Xiaflex lawsuits have occurred.

However, there is another way to get an idea about the number of lawsuits for Xiaflex injuries. Simply go to online sources of information about Xiaflex. Learn what people are saying about what happened to them after a Xiaflex procedure. Once you learn what happens to people after a Xiaflex procedure, you can assume how likely they might be to take legal action. Sources:

FDA Xiaflex information and comments
Drugs.com Xiaflex information
WebMD.com Xiaflex information
DCI and NHE LLC information from Xiaflex patients

Xiaflex complaints received by the FDA each year

Year Total complaints

2012	39
2013	23
2014	40
2015	342
2016	420
2017	320
2018	411
2019	659

Each year the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports the number of complaints it receives about many drugs – including Xiaflex. The chart to the left shows that number of Xiaflex complaints increases each year. Therefore, the number of lawsuits for Xiaflex treatment is likely increasing, also. Although not an exact number, a trend is easy to see.

If the FDA determines that the complaints have reached an excessive number, they will investigate.

Additional information is available on the FDA website concerning type, location and degree of injury in these Xiaflex complaints. Compare the FDA Xiaflex complaints to your complaints for an idea how reasonable a Xiaflex lawsuit might be.

Satisfaction rating on Drugs.com.

Visit drugs.com to read patient reports about Xiaflex usage. Patients give a satisfaction rating for their Xiaflex outcomes. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest satisfaction, and 1 being the lowest satisfaction, the majority of people give a low satisfaction rating. In fact, in May 2020, of nine total people responding, the average satisfaction level was 2.1 out of a possible 10 – shocking.

From this, a person can assume there is a large trend of unhappiness with Xiaflex. This low level of dissatisfaction could easily cause patients to start a Xiaflex lawsuit.

WebMD.com rating gives low star rating for Xiaflex

WebMD.com allows patients to rate the drugs they take on a 1-5 star scale. These patients also tell stories about their drug usage. They also rate the effectiveness, ease of use and satisfaction with many drugs. Anyone thinking about Xiaflex should read the WebMD page about Xiaflex.

On this page, 81 patients who had the Xiaflex procedure provide stories about what happened to them. As a group, they are not very satisfied after having the Xiaflex procedure. In May of 2020, the satisfaction level with Xiaflex is 2.42 stars out of a possible 5 stars. This insight should give you an idea how people feel about a Xiaflex lawsuit.

More reports about lawsuits for Xiaflex

Unfortunately, as the use of Xiaflex becomes more common, DCI and Natural Health Education LLC receives more stories like yours. Typical stories all mention some degree of injury or destruction of finger and hand muscles, joints, nerves, flesh and blood vessels. Of course, these injuries cause a wide range of mild to severe problems. For example, loss of hand function, pain, loss of feeling, weakness, limited movement and flesh erosion wounds needing reconstructive surgery by a plastic surgeon. Many of these people say they already have a Xiaflex lawsuit for their severe injuries.

Although rare, we have heard of two cases leading to amputation as a final solution. One was a finger amputation. The other, a partial hand amputation. It is reasonable to assume there is a high percent of lawsuits for Xiaflex injuries in such extreme cases.

Tissue necrosis

Sorry to hear of your bad Xiaflex reaction. You mentioned that necrosis of your finger occurred.

Necrosis is the unnatural and premature death of some or all cells in an organ or tissue. Causes include loss of blood supply, freezing, burning, infection, toxins, trauma or digestion by enzymes. The area affected can be large or small. Necrosis can result in a wide variety of serious and painful side effects in any tissue close to the site of Xiaflex injections.

Tissue necrosis is a serious complication. It is perhaps the most common and potentially complicated injury after a Xiaflex procedure goes wrong. This is true because the nature of necrosis is that the tissue dies and does not heal. Tissue destroyed by necrosis does not come back.

Locate an attorney for a Xiaflex lawsuit

Lawsuits for Xiaflex are never simple or easy. You want someone working for you who has conducted at least several Xiaflex lawsuits. However, the Xiaflex procedure is relatively new. For this reason, not many lawyers have much experience in this area. For helpful ideas to locate a great attorney specifically for this problem, see Xiaflex lawsuit.

Good luck with your hand.

Why is Xiaflex not indicated for palmar nodules?

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

Hello,

Why is Xiaflex not indicated for palmar nodules? If it weakens and dissolves the cord, why would it not dissolve a nodule?

Thank you,

RSW

Greetings RSW,

The fact is a Xiaflex injection would weaken and dissolve a palm nodule, but then you would have a hole in the palm of your hand. For this reason Xiaflex is only used to treat Dupuytren cords which are below the surface of the skin.

Of course, with Xiaflex injections the medical profession knows that the Dupuytren cords will return rather quickly, usually just a few years, and more injections would then be used. There are two problems in doing this: 1. No one knows what happens to the body with repeated Xiaflex injections. 2. Each time a person has a Xiaflex injection as a Dupuytrens treatment he or she runs the risk of having the Xiaflex dissolve normal tissue and cause problems greater than having Dupuytren’s contracture. For this reason we strongly suggest that anyone with Dupuytrens contracture first attempts to correct their problem using Alternative Medicine. TRH

What does Dupuytren’s contracture look like?

Posted on October 20, 2011October 20, 2011 by

Pictures of Dupuytren’s contracture show lumps in the palm, cords and fingers deformity

Before displaying several Dupuytren contracture pictures it might be helpful to explain that there are two primary lesions associated with this problem.

Dupuytren nodule or lump on the palm surface – This often looks like a callus on the palm or melted wax on the palm surface, usually located at the base of the 4^th (ring) or 5^th (pinky) fingers. The skin is often dimpled or depressed along with a slightly raised surface, and will often appear to be a slightly darker color due to the thickening of the tissue that is taking place, similar to a callus. As the condition progresses you will probably notice the palm lump having more clearly defined edges, deeper depressions or dimples, and thicker over time.
Dupuytren cord below the palm surface – You will not directly see the cord since it is below the surface of the skin. A cord raises the skin surface like one of the larger ligaments that you notice standing out and pushing the skin up, on the inside surface of your wrist or the bend of your elbow, when you make a fist or lift something heavy. A cord will be found extending from the upper palm at one end to the base of the finger at the other end. As the condition progresses you will probably notice the cord getting thicker and more pronounced over time.

In addition to the appearance of the skin related to Dupuytren’s contracture, there is also the condition of the finger flexion that is part of the visual image that is important. As the contractures continue to thicken and shorten the involved fingers begin to flex down toward the palm. Over time those fingers will slowly and progressively become bent, unable to straighten completely, and will be somewhat claw-like in appearance.

These Dupuytren’s disease pictures that follow should be used only for general knowledge, to compare or confirm what the reader might be experiencing, or just to see how severe the finger contracture and hand deformity can develop. In the early stages of Dupuytrens contracture everyone feels worried about the small – and sometimes large – changes in the appearance of the hand. Not knowing about a problem and how bad it can become can be the worse part of a condition like this.

No picture of Dupuytren contracture will look exactly like what you might be experiencing. Therefore, they are not intended to assist in making a diagnosis of Dupuytren’s contracture. If you have not yet visited your doctor to have your hand lumps examined, allow these Dupuytren pictures to motivate you to seek prompt medical attention and a doctor’s opinion about your problem. Perhaps after studying these Dupuytren images you will feel relieved you are not so bad off in comparison to other people’s situation.

Hopefully, these Dupuytren’s pictures will be helpful to understand what this problem can look like, motivate you to get a thorough medical evaluation, and then get busy following an aggressive Alternative Medicine therapy plan to improve your changes for self-recovery to overcome your problem. Click on Dupuytrens Treatment, to determine how to incorporate the aggressive use of multiple conservative measures to treat the fibrous thickening you might be experiencing.

Please feel free to contribute your own Dupuytren contracture pictures to DCI for inclusion on this page.

What is the Best Dupuytren’s Treatment?

Posted on June 7, 2011June 7, 2011 by

No single therapy works best to reduce Dupuytren contracture

Every week, without fail, some poor soul who has received a diagnosis about his palm lump finally comes to the internet and eventually writes me asking, “What is the best way to treat Dupuytren contracture?”

A common question, and a good one, designed to get to the core of the matter.

Although I would be delighted to reply with the name of one particular therapy or one special way to treat Dupuytrens, I cannot do that.

After working on the Alternative Medicine solution to this problem since 2002, I have found the best way to treat Dupuytren contracture is to use everything you can throw against it. You must deliver a wide assortment of concentrated nutritional therapies to support your immune response from a variety of directions so that your body can repair and eliminate the finger contractures and bump on the palm of the hand that reduce your hand dexterity. It is that kind of problem.

Many have tried to find it, but eventually come to realize there is no one therapy that is a magic bullet against Dupuytren contracture. There are no wonder cures, no nifty little tricks that will allow your finger to move freely and easily again. Dupuytren Contracture Institute has found the best treatment is the one that stimulates the tissue to heal and repair the area on the palm of the hand. For each person this seems to be an individual assortment of different therapies.

Dupuytren treatment using Alternative Medicine is best to start

Each person must educate himself about the hand contracture problem, read about the different Alternative Medicine therapies and what they might do to assist that healing process, determine if there are any indictors that one or more might be indicated, and then consider the time, effort and cost involved. Lastly, it is necessary to determine how important it is to you to regain the full use of your hand. Based on all this, you should feel comfortable with a plan of action that might have to be followed for several months as you go about doing all you can to improve your body’s ability to heal and repair the hand contracture of Dupuytren.

Those who eventually get good results with their Dupuytren problem are the tough and determined people who just keep going after it day after day with as much therapy as they can manage to use, until they seem to overwhelm the dense fibrous tissue into submission and eventual elimination. Slowly they gain on it, with the hand nodules becoming softer and smaller; slowly these areas of finger and hand contracture come around. Some people get fantastic results and some get only moderate results – very few who work hard at it do poorly. There usually is progress to be made if you work at it.

So, the question again is, “What is the best way to treat Dupuytren contracture?” the answer appears to be for each person to do all that you can for as long as you can until your body overwhelms the Dupuytren nodules and lumps that cause the fingers to draw up to the palm. To do less is to allow Dupuytren contracture to ruin your life.