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Depakote Lawsuit, Depakote Birth Defect Lawsuit, Depakote Spina Bifida Lawyer and Depakote Birth Defect Lawsuit
Information by
Texas Depakote Birth Defect
Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Several parents have filed a lawsuit
against Abbott Laboratories, alleging their children
suffered from Depakote birth defects. These lawsuits allege
that Depakote is linked to
neural tube
defects including
spina bifida
as well as other birth defects including heart defects, and
malformations of hands, fingers, palate, lips, and genitals.
The lawsuits allege that Abbott Laboratories knew of these
potential health risks but continued marketing Depakote
without providing proper warning to pregnant women and women
that could become pregnant of these risks.
If you believe that your child has
suffered a birth defect or birth injury as a result of a
defective drug, medication, or product,
contact
Texas Depakote Lawyer Jason Coomer
for a free review of a Depakote Neural Tube Defect Lawsuit,
Depakote Spina Bifida Lawsuit or other Depakote Birth Defect Lawsuit or
use our online submission form.
Depakote Birth Defect Lawsuit Information, Valproate Birth
Defect Lawsuit Information, Spina Bifida Lawsuit Information &
Defective Drug Birth Defect Lawsuit Information
Depakote also known as Valproate
semisodium (INN), Depakote ER, Depakene, Depacon, Epival,
Dépakine Chrono,Valance, and divalproex sodium (USAN) is a
drug prescribed to treat seizures, migraine headaches, and
some psychiatric disorders. In the UK, Canada, and
U.S., the drugs are used for the treatment of the manic
episodes of bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder,
prevention of both manic and depressive phases of bipolar
disorder, epilepsy, chronic pain associated with neuropathy,
and migraine headaches. Off-label use of the drug include
treatment of mild depression, the depressive stage of
bi-polar disorder, and chronic pain such as migraine
headaches.
Depakote has been linked to major birth
defects in children of women that were taking this drug.
According to a recent medical scientific study, women taking
Depakote had four times the risk of delivering a child with
major birth defects, compared to women taking other, similar
drugs. The range of birth defects associated with
Depakote is broad, however the report specifically cited
neural tube defects such as spina bifida. Neural tube
defects are birth defects that affect the brain and spinal
cord; spinal bifida is a defect affecting the spinal cord
that causes paralysis of the legs.There is no known cure.
In addition to spina bifida, other birth
defects caused by Depakote include cleft palate, cleft lip,
heart defects, limb and digital deformities, facial
dysmorphism, mental developmental delays, and (difficult)
genitourinary maloformations.
Paroxetine, Seroxat, and Paxil
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressants (SSRIs)
PPHN
Birth Defect Lawsuits
Avoidable birth defects are one of the
most devastating problems that can occur to a family and a
new baby. Parents who should be celebrating the birth
of a new child, are often caught off guard when their child
is born with severe disabilities and often do not
realize that someone may be responsible for the birth injury
or defect including drug manufacturers that hid information
about medications that can cause birth defects. The
family is typically busy taking care of the child with the
serious health problems and often does not know that the
birth defect was preventable. When they discover the
probable cause of the preventable birth defect they are
often filled with anger and rage. To find out that
their child will have permanent health problems or that they
lost their baby because a drug company hid research and did
not provide an adequate warning of a product's safety can be
extremely difficult
Paroxetine (trade names Seroxat, Paxil)
is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)
antidepressant that has been linked to
birth defects including Persistent Pulmonary
Hypertension (PPHN), heart, lung, abdominal and cranial
defects. Women that
have taken Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
Antidepressants (SSRIs)
after the 20th week of pregnancy have a 6-fold
increased risk of having their child develop persistent pulmonary
hypertension, a life-threatening lung disorder.
Infants with persistent pulmonary hypertension have
abnormal blood flow through the heart and lungs and do not
get enough oxygen to their bodies and may become very sick
or die.
The SSRIs antidepressants that have been
linked to persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) include
Paxil by GlaxoSmithKline, Zoloft marketed by Pfizer; Prozac
sold by Eli Lilly; Celexa and Lexapro by Forest
Laboratories, Effexor marketed by Wyeth, Luvox by Solvay,
and the generic makers of these drugs include Barr
Pharmaceuticals, Ranbaxy Labs and Genpharm.
Infants born with PPHN often require
mechanical assistance to breath and even worse about 10% to
20% of the infants do not survive even when they receive
treatment. The PPHN babies that do survive often experience
developmental delays, brain abnormalities and hearing loss,
experts say.
Other birth defects that have been
associated with SSRIs include Anencephaly, a neural tube
defect where much of the brain does not develop;
Craniosynostosis, an abnormality in which connections of the
skull bones close prematurely; and Heart birth defects
including septal defects and ventricular defects.
SSRIs have not only been associated to
birth defects, but have been associated with increased risk
of suicide. For more information on suicide claims
from antidepressants, please see our
antidepressant
suicide claim information page.
Paroxetine, Seroxat, and Paxil Failure to Warn Birth Defect
Lawsuits
Several
medications, products, and drugs have been linked to birth
defects. Some of these medication and products have
ample warnings that warn pregnant women to avoid taking
these products while they are pregnant, however, some
manufacturers have hidden the real dangers of their product
in order to sell more of their product and value profits
over healthy babies. For these manufacturers, they may
have short term profits, but over the long term they will
suffer for the long term birth defects that they have
caused.
Federal and Texas Birth Defect Lawyers, Depakote Birth Defect Lawyer,
Valproate Birth Defect Lawyer, Spina Bifida Lawyer, Depakote
Spina Bifida Lawyer, Depakote ER Lawyer, and Depakote Cleft
Palate & Deformity Lawyer
Federal and Texas Birth Defect Lawsuits are
some of the most complicated types of cases in the practice
of law. As a Texas birth defect and birth injury lawyer that handles
birth defect, infant death and stillborn baby claims, Jason
S. Coomer works with
other Birth Defect Lawyers throughout the United States including Boston
Depakotel Birth Defect Lawyers,
Atlanta Depakote Birth Defect Lawyers, Virginia Birth Defect Lawyers,
Dallas Depakote Spina Bifida Birth Defect Lawyers, Houston
Spina Bifida Birth Defect
Lawyers, and other Depakote Birth Defect Lawyers. In working with other birth defect lawyers,
we seek compensation from negligent drug companies and other
companies that
have severely injured or killed infants or mothers through
selling dangerous products, medications, and drugs that they
should have know were dangerous, but hid significant
research in order to sell more product to make a profit.
If you have suffered the loss of your
baby or your baby has been born with a significant birth
defect, feel free to
contact Texas
Depakote Birth Defect Attorney, Jason S. Coomer.
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