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Infant Heart Defect Lawsuits,
Paxil Heart Defect Lawsuits, Paxil Heart Birth Injury Lawsuits,
Paxil Infant Heart Valve
Lawsuits, Seroxat Infant Development Lawsuits, & Paxil Heart Defect Lawsuits by Texas
Infant Heart Defect
Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Mothers
that have taken Paxil while pregnant should be aware that
the drug Paxil has been linked to an increased number of birth
defects and birth injuries in children of mothers that took
Paxil they were pregnant. These heart defects, birth
injuries, and birth defects include Persistent Pulmonary
Hypertension (PPHN) lung damage, heart valve defects,
ventricular valve defects, abnormal cranial shaped heads,
pulmonary failure and other birth injuries.
If you believe that your child has
suffered a heart problem, birth defect or birth injury as a result of a
defective drug, medication, or product,
contact
Paxil Heart Defect Lawyer Jason Coomer
for a free review of your potential Paxil Heart Defect Lawsuit or Paxil Birth
Injury Lawsuit or
use our online submission form.
We will need to know the mother's name, child's name, date
of birth, dates that the Paxil was taken, and health issues
that the child has including heart defects, trouble
breathing, abnormal cranial shaped head, or other health
issue.
Infant
Birth Injury Lawsuits, Infant Heart Defect Lawsuits, Child
Heart Defect Lawsuits, Paxil Infant Heart Problem Lawsuits,
Paxil Infant Heart Valve Lawsuits, and other
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
FDA Advising of Risk of Birth Defects (including
Heart Defects) with Paxil Agency Requiring Updated Product
Labeling
In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration
alerted health care professionals and patients about early
results of new studies for Paxil (paroxetine) suggesting
that the drug increases the risk for birth defects,
particularly heart defects, when women take it during the
first three months of pregnancy. Paxil is approved for the
treatment of depression and several other psychiatric
disorders. FDA is currently gathering additional data and
waiting for the final results of the recent studies in order
to better understand the higher risk for birth defects that
has been seen with Paxil.
FDA is advising health care professionals
to discuss the potential risk of birth defects with patients
taking Paxil who plan to become pregnant or are in their
first three months of pregnancy. Health care professionals
should consider discontinuing Paxil (and switching to
another antidepressant if indicated) in these patients. In
some patients, the benefits of continuing Paxil may be
greater than the potential risk to the fetus. FDA is
advising health care professionals not to prescribe Paxil in
women who are in the first three months of pregnancy or are
planning pregnancy, unless other treatment options are not
appropriate.
FDA is advising patients that this drug
should usually not be taken during pregnancy, but for some
women who have already been taking Paxil, the benefits of
continuing may be greater than the potential risk to the
fetus. Women taking Paxil who are pregnant or plan to become
pregnant should talk to their physicians about the potential
risks of taking the drug during pregnancy. Women taking
Paxil should not stop taking it without first talking with
their physician.
The early results of two studies showed
that women who took Paxil during the first three months of
pregnancy were about one and a half to two times as likely
to have a baby with a heart defect as women who received
other antidepressants or women in the general population.
Most of the heart defects reported in these studies were
atrial and ventricular septal defects (holes in the walls of
the chambers of the heart). In general, these types of
defects range in severity from those that are minor and may
resolve without treatment to those that cause serious
symptoms and may need to be repaired surgically.
In one of the studies, the risk of heart
defects in babies whose mothers had taken Paxil early in
pregnancy was about 2 percent, compared to a 1 percent risk
in the whole population. In the other study, the risk of
heart defects in babies whose mothers had taken Paxil in the
first three months of pregnancy was 1.5 percent, compared to
1 percent in babies whose mothers had taken other
antidepressants in the first three months of pregnancy.
FDA has asked the manufacturer, Glaxo
Smith Kline (GSK), to change the pregnancy category from C
to D, a stronger warning. Category D means that studies in
pregnant women (controlled or observational) have
demonstrated a risk to the fetus. However, the benefits of
therapy may outweigh the potential risks to the fetus.
Based on results of the preliminary data,
GSK updated the drug's labeling in September 2005 to add
data from one study. As additional data have become
available, the label has now been changed to reflect the
latest data from the two studies and to change the pregnancy
category.
Paroxetine, Seroxat, and Paxil
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressants (SSRIs)
PPHN
Birth Defect Lawsuits
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),
Paxil Heart Defects, Paxil Lung Damage, and Paxil Cranial
Defects.
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
In 2009, a jury awarded a family $2.5
million in a lawsuit filed against the makers of Paxil that
alleged the drug was responsible for a young boy's birth
defects. The lawsuit claimed that the family's young child
suffered from birth defects, including two holes in his
heart, which required surgery. In the wake of this
verdict, GlaxoSmithKline has offered to settle many Paxil
lawsuits.
Other medications, products, and drugs have
also been linked to birth
defects and some are the subject of lawsuits. 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.
Infant
Birth Injury Lawsuits, Infant Heart Defect Lawsuits, Child
Heart Defect Lawsuits, Paxil Infant Heart Problem Lawsuits,
Paxil Infant Heart Valve Lawsuits, and other
Birth Defect Lawsuits
Federal and Texas Birth Injury Lawsuits are
some of the most complicated types of cases in the practice
of law. As a Texas heart defect and birth injury lawyer that handles
infant heart defect, birth injury, and infant death cases,
Jason Coomer works with
other Infant Heart Defect Lawyers and Birth Injury Lawyers throughout the United States including Boston Paxil Birth
Injury Lawyers,
Atlanta Seroxat Heart Defect Lawyers, California Heart Defect Lawyers,
Dallas Paroxetine Birth Defect Lawyers, Houston Infant Heart Defect
Lawyers, and other Paxil 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 your child suffers from a serious
heart defect, heart problem, developmental problem, or birth
defect, feel free to
contact Texas
Paxil Heart Defect Attorney, Jason S. Coomer.
In reviewing cases, it is helpful to know the mother's name, child's name, date
of birth, dates that the Paxil was taken, and health issues
that the child has including heart defects, trouble
breathing, abnormal cranial shaped head, or other health
issue.
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