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Aideen McGarry settles claim for failures relating to bowel surgery for £425,000 | Case Studies | We Case Studies Aideen McGarry settles claim for failures relating to bowel surgery for £425,000 Aideen McGarry has recently settled a claim for failures in relation to bowel surgery, undertaken at Kings College Hospital, for our client, a woman in her early 40’s. The case related to failures to provide proper information and obtain informed consent for surgery, as well as failings in surgical technique and in the aftercare provided. Our client sustained serious injuries. As a result of suffering from ulcerative colitis our client had undergone a subtotal colectomy with ileostomy and rectal stump formation when she was 19 years old. This procedure essentially involves removing the diseased part of the bowel and creating a stoma which drains waste into a colostomy bag. Our client was told that in the future she would have to have surgery, either to make the ileostomy permanent or to create an ileoanal pouch - a pouch inside the body to replace the colon and rectum meaning that there is no need for a colostomy bag. Our client was advised to wait until she had had children before undertaking a further procedure and in 2015 it was recommended that she have J-Pouch surgery (a type of ileoanal pouch). However, our client was not properly advised about the risks. She was extremely unwell and in terrible pain after the procedure and had to go in to hospital many times with sepsis. It turned out that her J Pouch had catastrophically failed. She had a pre-sacral collection which was the cause of the sepsis. Our client had to have further surgery to remove the pouch and thereafter had to have a permanent ileostomy. Her case was that she was not properly informed of the risks of the J-Pouch surgery and was not given a feasible option of having a permanent stoma despite the fact that she had been managing well with a temporary one since 1999.
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£425,000 settlement for failures in bowel surgery at Kings College Hospital. Compensation for lack of informed consent, surgical technique failures, and permanent ileostomy complications.