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Paroxetine SSRI Birth Defect Lawsuits, Seroxat Lawsuits, &
Paxil Birth Defect Lawsuits by Texas Paxil Birth Defect
Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Paroxetine (trade names Seroxat, Paxil)
is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)
antidepressant that has been linked to birth defects and
birth injuries including Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension (PPHN)
as well as other serious heart, lung, abdominal and cranial
defects.
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
Paxil Birth Injury Lawyer Jason Coomer
for a free review of your Paxil Birth
Injury Lawsuit or Paxil Birth Defect Lawsuit or
use our online submission form.
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 Injury Lawyers and
Paroxetine, Seroxat, and Paxil Birth Defect
Lawsuits
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 has handles
infant death and stillborn baby claims, I have worked with
other Birth Defect Lawyers throughout the United States including Boston
Paxil Birth Defect Lawyers,
Atlanta Seroxat Birth Defect Lawyers, Virginia Birth Defect Lawyers,
Dallas Paroxetine Birth Defect Lawyers, Houston Paxil Birth Defect
Lawyers, and other Paxil SRRI 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
Paxil Birth Defect Attorney, Jason S. Coomer.
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