Abdominal Abscess Expert Witness

Court: Common Pleas Court of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Taylor v. DeLeo Citation: 2015 Pa. Dist. & Cnty. Dec. LEXIS 20 Facts This case involves a plaintiff who underwent multiple laparoscopic surgeries to treat adhesions in her…

This case involves an elderly woman who underwent a polypectomy. There was a target sign seen with deep cautery effect, and a decision was made to place several hemostatic clips. The patient was discharged the same day with no imaging…

A general surgery expert witness advises on a case involving an 80-year-old female who required significant abdominal surgery. Prior to discharge, the patient complained of severe nausea and limited appetite (per her medical records). She was sent for an x-ray,…

A hospitalist expert witness opines on a case of a patient with a hepatic abscess who was discharged from a hospital without adequate care. This case involves a fifty-five-year-old male patient with a past medical history of obesity and hypertension.…

This case involves a forty-five-year-old woman, status post hysterectomy.  This patient presented to her OBGYN physician for a partial hysterectomy via Da Vinci robotic approach.  During the procedure suing the surgical technology, one of the blades fractured from one of the trocars,…

This case involves a forty-five-year-old female who presented to the emergency room with a history of severe right upper quadrant abdominal pain. A CT scan of her abdomen revealed a non-specific vascular liver lesion. At the time of diagnosis, the…

This case involves a fifty-eight-year-old female patient who presented to her OBGYN complaining of post-menopausal bleeding. The patient underwent a failed dilation and curettage by a previous physician who told her that she had a thickened endometrial stripe. The patient…

This case involves a patient who underwent a robotic myomectomy in the form of a  da Vinci-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy and right salpingo-oophorectomy in a major university hospital setting. A physician who did not receive extensive training with the new technology…

This case involves a fifty-six-year-old male, with a history of obstructive uropathy, who presented to the ED of nausea and profuse, watery diarrhea. On physical exam, he displayed left thigh pain that was significantly out of proportion to the exam.…