Comments on: Trasylol Class Action Lawsuit Filed in Canada After Another Study Confirms Increased Risk of Death

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:19:48 +0000

Devastating information regarding my husband’s death approximately 10 years ago. My daughter brought me a folder of information she has been gathering regarding Trasylol stating “if you don’t look into this I will”…
My husband died 3 days after open heart surgery replacing a valve in 1999 from acute renal failure. Going into surgery he was healthy and the cardiologist & surgeon expected a positive outcome. I followed my daughters prompt to investigate, as when his death happened at the age of 54, I was in shock and denial.
Yes, in fact he was given a one- time dose of Trasylol resulting in death. Since I got this information on 10/18/09, supported it with hospital records, death certificate & autopsy report I tried to contact a local attorney. The 1st attorney stated that the statute of limitation for Colorado is 2 years from the date of death (8/1999-8/2001). The 2nd attorney stated the statute of limitation for Colorado would be 2 years from the time it became public knowledge (6/2006-6/2008). I contacted yet a third attorney 10/30/09; she would get back to me by 11/2/09 with concrete information as their office had just reviewed this case a week ago. To my suprise she did get back to me and said the last day for any Trasylol suit to be filed from Colorado was 11/5/09 and gave me an attorney to contact. My case was legally filed 11/4/09. I was questioned by the attorney what I expected to result out of this… My comment was the two things I can’t have; 1) My husband back as I have never been able to move on with my life! 2) I would hope that due to Bayer’s emphasis on making money rather than life itself, would result in them never making another dime even on an ASPRIN! I work in the medical field; this is a hard pill to swallow!!!

By: Tonya

Tonya — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:20:56 +0000

My daddy was given Trasylol after his heart bypass surgery and now has kidney failure requiring dialysis 3 days a week. He NEVER had kidney problems before being given this drug. He was in good health aside from needing bypass surgery. Now, he also has arterial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, and had a stroke. He has been in and out of the hospital for years now and I feel Trasylol has robbed him of his quality of life. During dialysis he even flatlined for over 20 minutes and thank goodness CPR brought him back to life. I feel like Bayer Corp. is killing my father and I believe there are many who don’t even know their problems are due to Trasylol. I know we didn’t until someone told us to look it up. Apparently health “care” is just an oxymoron and all that matters in this industry is big money. What a crock! Something must be done about this!

By: Nazmudin

Nazmudin — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:47:06 +0000

My mother had bypass surgery done at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto in June 0f 2004. Since her Kidney function level has dropped to less than 30%.

By: ED

ED — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:00:02 +0000

A young lady only 18 years old , a student in college had heart surgery 03-13-09 The doctors told her mom that this was going to be a fairly simple surgery. On 03-14-09 her liver and kidneys shut down, now she is on life support.. I would like to find out what type of drugs the doctors used to control bleeding..

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:49:54 +0000

My husband was given Traysolol during heart surgery in 2004 and died ten days later. Kidneys, lungs, liver all shut down and I had to make the decision to remove him from life support. Bayer knew the side effects of Traysolol but kept it on the market anyway. I am a part of the class-action suit against Bayer. Even though I personally do not expect to receive any compensation, I certaining hope that Bayer is held accountable.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:30:48 +0000

My mother was given this drug, and passed almost a year to the day of her surgery. She suffered many bouts of congestive heart failures that would hospitalize her several times in that year, the doctors kept telling her that she was bleeding from somewhere and they needed to do more tests.
After endless endoscopies and colonoscopies the scans they never found any bleed. She never got better after her surgery she told me several times that she wished to god she would have never had it done, they promised her a brand new life and tortured, and neglected her untill her whole body shut down and i was forced to make the decision to take her off life support sept 23/06 and i believe in my heart that this drug along with a very imcompatent cardiologiest who left her sitting in the hospital for weeks at a time killed my mother