Opinion ID: 4151593
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Victoria Kearse

Text: Plaintiff Victoria Kearse received her ObTape implant to treat her stress urinary incontinence in November 2004. She immediately suffered several side effects including foul-smelling vaginal discharge, severe pain, and several large painful cysts. Kearse underwent several surgical procedures to excise her ObTape, the third and final surgery taking place in September 2005. She also underwent three other surgeries to remove her cysts. Kearse still suffers from abdominal pain. After hearing about media accounts of transvaginal mesh litigation from her sister, Kearse filed her suit in October 2012. Kearse believed, and it was confirmed by her doctor, that her own body and not her ObTape was the cause of her injuries. Her doctor informed her that her condition was caused by “thin vaginal mucosa,” rather than the ObTape. The district court however concluded that because Kearse underwent surgery, she “knew by September 2005 that there was a connection between ObTape and some of her injuries.” In re Mentor Corp. Obtape Transobturator Sling Prods. Liab. Litig., 2015 WL 8578364, at  (M.D. Ga. Dec. 9, 2015).