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Article: CryoLife hit with 7 lawsuits over death of Minnesota man attributed to tainted tissue.(Brief Article)
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- Transplant News
- Article date:
- July 27, 2002
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CryoLife has been hit with 7 separate lawsuits over the death late last year of a Minnesota man following knee surgery that was attributed to tainted tissue the patient received during the operation.
The family of Brian Lykins, 23, who died on November 11 after receiving a cartilage implant that was provided by a donor infected with a deadly bacterium-Clostridium sordelli-filed suite on July 12. The tissue was provided by CryoLife. Five other lawsuits connected with graft infections-2 in California and 3 in Tennessee-have been filed against the company, according to the Associated Press.
In addition, CryoLife is the subject of a class action lawsuit ...
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Article: Kennesaw, Ga.-Based CryoLife's Recall Cost $27 Million.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);
October 30, 2002 ;
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... ... the first accounting for CryoLife's problems since the ... most tissue processing. CryoLife's shares closed at ... followed the death of a Minnesota man from an infection after knee surgery in which CryoLife tissue was used, and ...
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