Successful Settlement – Doctors Failed to Diagnose Blood Infection
Compensation: Undisclosed
Keith Gross recently settled a medical malpractice case in which two doctors — one from an urgent care facility and the other the patient’s regular doctor — failed to timely diagnose and properly treat our client’s endocarditis, commonly known as an infection of the heart.
“Our client had a congenital heart murmur, which both doctors knew about. The murmur was caused by a ventricular septal defect, a pre-existing hole in the heart wall which separates the two lower chambers, and which put him at increased risk for developing a heart valve infection. Despite weeks of symptoms including an unexplained fever, and the heart murmur, the doctors failed to order tests that would have confirmed the infection (bacteremia) at a time when it could have been successfully treated by intravenous antibiotics.”
Keith Gross – Medical Malpractice Lawyer, Jacob Fuchsberg Law Firm
The failure to timely diagnose and treat the infection resulted in the bacteria seeding and damaging our client’s aortic heart valve, requiring open-heart surgery to replace the valve and to remove other areas of damage. It was our position that this surgery could and should have been avoided by a timely diagnosis and treatment.
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CLIENT SUCCESS
VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS
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A case involving a man in his 70’s who contracted Legionnaires’ disease from a hospital.
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With Joe Lanni at the helm, our medical malpractice legal team scored a major victory.