Type of Case: Medical Malpractice
Injuries Alleged: Perforation of the rear wall of the bladder, fistula, recurrent UTI’s, and permanent increased bladder urgency and frequency as a result of injured bladder.
Special Damages: $146,182.14 - Past Damages
Settlement: $ 1,200,000
Attorney(s): Howard Bullock, Richmond - William Kilduff, Richmond
Summary: Plaintiff, age 36, went to see the defendant gynecologist with complaints chronic female pelvic pain and complex ovarian cyst.
Thereafter, a abdominal hysterectomy with left salpingo-oopherectomy was planned. During the procedure, the defendant gynecologist sutured the entire posterior wall of the bladder to the vaginal cuff. The Defendant gynecologist failed to realize that the bladder had been sutured to the vaginal cuff and continued with closing the operation.
After the surgery, there was continued presence of frank blood in the plaintiff’s urine postoperatively and marked decline in urine output. Plaintiff was taken emergently for a cystogram which revealed a tear in the bladder. That same day the plaintiff had emergency surgery where it was discovered that the Plaintiff’s entire posterior wall of the bladder had been obliterated and
ruptured from being incorporated into the closure of the vaginal cuff. Plaintiff’s bladder was surgically repaired with a reduced bladder capacity.
The plaintiff has suffered multiple complications since the bladder repair surgery, including surgical repair of a fistula, loss of bladder sensation, multiple botox injections into the bladder, as well as permanent increased bladder urgency and frequency as a result of injured bladder.