Opinion ID: 4151593
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Heading: Graciela Urbieta

Text: Plaintiff Graciela Urbieta received her ObTape implant in March 2005. In January 2006, she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, a potentially lethal condition, and a thigh abscess. She can no longer run, work out, or sing, and is forced to wear diapers for her continuing incontinence. After viewing a television advertisement concerning transvaginal mesh litigation, she filed her suit in July 2013. Urbieta was treated by several doctors. She claims that none of her doctors informed her that her injuries were caused by her ObTape. One doctor did not even know she had been implanted with ObTape, and thus could not have concluded it was the cause. Another physician diagnosed Urbieta with an eroded sling and removed the sling in December 2006. The district court concluded that Urbieta should have known of a connection between the ObTape and her symptoms because she knew the sling was infected, and because she had an excision surgery to remove it in December 2006. In re 11 Case: 16-10119 Date Filed: 03/09/2017 Page: 12 of 28 Mentor Corp. Obtape Transobturator Sling Prods. Liab. Litig., 2015 WL 9307267, at  (M.D. Ga. Dec. 21, 2015).