A young woman with endometriosis who was operated on at the Caen University Hospital suffered from serious complications. The hospital will have to pay him 85,000 euros in compensation.
The Caen University Hospital Center has just been ordered to pay 85,000 euros in damages to a patient operated on on its premises in 2009. Aged 31, the latter suffered from stage 5 endometriosis.
His condition worsened a few days after the first operation. The young woman encountered a leak at the level of the ureter and a superinfection of the uroperitoneum. A stomach anomaly was also observed in a second step.
Late support
The patient’s condition would have taken more than 4 years to stabilize. To this day, she still encounters urinary and digestive disorders as well as sterility not accessible to medical assistance techniques, reveals the daily West France. To repair all these damages, the patient brought proceedings against the CHU asking to be compensated up to 320,000 euros.
The verdict was delivered Friday by the administrative court of Caen. An expert report estimated “a management of urological complications too late and a malnutrition of the patient who was not adequately taken care of”.
According to these experts, the patient would have had an 85% chance of recovering if the hospital had reacted sooner and taken care of the patient in time. Expertise confirmed by the regional medical accident conciliation commission. The court therefore considered that the postoperative complications are likely to engage the responsibility of the CHU of Caen.
Between 16 and 50 years old, 1 in 10 women suffers from endometriosis
Endometriosis is a gynecological disease causing pain that is poorly understood. This is an abnormal migration of endometrial cells outside the uterus. Endometriosis affects more than one in ten women between the ages of 16 and 50 and leads to infertility in 25 to 50% of cases.
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