FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (Legal Newsline) - A couple are suing an Arkansas plastic surgery clinic and a medical products manufacturer for allegedly allowing defective tissue expanders to be implanted in women.
Penney and Curtis Wolfe filed a lawsuit on Dec. 16 in the Washington County Circuit Court against Baxter Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Northwest Physicians, LLC d/b/a Willow Creek Women’s Clinic, David H. Stacey, M.D., and Northwest Arkansas Center for Plastic Surgery, LTD.
According to the lawsuit, on March 28, 2013, Penney Wolfe had a double mastectomy performed at Willow Creek Women’s Clinic, which is part of Northwest Physicians, LLC. Shortly after, Penney Wolfe developed a serious, life-threatening bacterial infection called Serratia Marcescens that is very resistant to certain antibiotics, the suit says.
The development of the bacterial infection was listed as “injured from Poisoning and Toxic effects of drugs from the artificial device placed” by Northwest Physicians, the suit says. As a result, Penney has continued to suffer major medical issues including death of her pancreas, nerve damage and arthritis, the suit says.
Penney's medical conditions have caused multiple stints in the hospital and surgeries in which items were placed in her. Following these implantations, Penney learned that the expanders insider of her were filled with Baxter Pharmaceutical Products saline, which was made and distributed in a defective condition making it dangerous, the suit says.
Penney Wolfe seeks damages in the sum in excess of $1,300,000. The Wolfe's are represented by Sam Sexton III of Fort Smith.
Washington County Circuit Court of Arkansas case number 72CV-21-2844