Kenolog Side Effects Lawsuit

A public safety alert has been issued and a label change has been issued for Kenalog Injection. The public safety alert and label change indicate the use of Kenalog injection in epidurals has been linked with "serious medical events, including death" and that the use of Kenalog Injections was not recommended. Kenalog Paralysis has been reported as has Kenalog Death. If you or a loved one have been injured as a result of Kenalog side effects you may be entitled to significant compensation. Contact the Kenalog Attorneys of Ennis & Ennis, P.A. right now by filling out the free Kenalog Lawsuit case evaluation form on this page or call us toll free at: 1.800.856.6405.

What is Kenolog?

Kenalog intra-articular - Kenalog intramuscular injection contains the active ingredient triamcinolone, a type of medicine known as a corticosteroid. Corticosteroids are hormones that are produced naturally by the adrenal glands. Corticosteroids have many important functions in the body, including control of inflammatory responses. Corticosteroid medicications are man-made derivatives of the natural hormones. They are often simply called steroids, but it should be noted that they are very different from another group of steroids, called anabolic steroids, which have gained notoriety because of their abuse by some athletes and body builders.

Triamcinolone - Kenalog injection is a synthetic steroid that has an anti-inflammatory effect. It is used to decrease inflammation in various different diseases and conditions.

Triamcinolone - Kenalog injections decreases inflammation by acting within cells to prevent the release of certain chemicals that are important in the immune system. These chemicals are normally involved in producing immune and allergic responses. By decreasing the release of these chemicals in a particular area, inflammation is reduced.

Triamcinolone - Kenalog injection also decreases the numbers of white blood cells circulating in the blood. This, along with the decrease in inflammatory chemicals, can be useful for the treatment of certain types of leukaemia, where there is an abnormally large production of certain white blood cells, and for treating certain diseases that are caused by the immune system attacking tissues in the body (autoimmune diseases).

Corticosteroids have many important functions on every organ system. If the body's natural level of steroid hormones is too low because the adrenal glands are not producing enough hormones, this must be treated with replacement therapy to allow the body to function normally. Triamcinolone - Kenalog injections can also be used for this purpose.

Kenalog injection is given by injection into the muscle of the buttock in situations where a lasting corticosteroid effect is needed. The Triamcinolone - Kenalog injection is slowly absorbed into the bloodstream from this area, so one Kenalog injection produces an effect for about three weeks.

Kenalog injection can also be injected directly into inflamed soft tissue, for example in tennis elbow, or directly into a joint (intra-articular), for example in arthritis, to decrease inflammation and pain in that particular localised area, and increase mobility of the affected joint.

Serious Side Effects of Kenolog Injections - Triamcinolone Injections

Bristol-Myers Squibb issued a public safety alert and changed the label of the Kenalog injection to indicate that use of it in epidurals has been linked with “serious medical events, including death” and that use of it as an epidural injection was “not recommended.”

According to reports Doctors are still injecting the steroid in a way the company warns they shouldn’t, following reports that patients have died or become paralyzed after receiving Kenalog Injections.

The company will not go so far as to say the Kenalog injection was responsible for those deaths or injuries and the Food and Drug Administration failed to issue its own alert when Bristol-Myers Squibb changed the labels on Kenalog Injections.

Used for neck and back pain, Kenalog Injection and the Pfizer Inc. (PFE) drug Depo-Medrol Injection are the most frequently administered steroids in epidural injections. Over eight million such shots were given in the U.S. in 2010.

Bloomberg reports that experts believe this warning from the drug company has largely gone ignored or unnoticed.

Kenalog Side Effects

• Raised blood sugar level.
  
  
• Increased appetite and weight gain.
  
  
• Increased susceptibility to infections and increased severity of infections (see warnings above).
  
  
• Effects on the gut, such as indigestion or abdominal bloating, nausea, ulceration in the stomach or intestine, inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis).
  
  
• Ulceration or thrush infection in the throat.
  
  
• Muscle weakness or wasting.
  
  
• Thinning of the bones (osteoporosis) and increased risk of breaking a bone.
  
  
• Effects on the skin, such as skin thinning, impaired healing, acne, bruising, stretch marks, increased sweating, change in pigmentation, increased hair growth (hirsutism).
  
  
• Psychiatric reactions, such as mood changes (including irritability, depression and suicidal thoughts), psychotic reactions (including mania, delusions and hallucinations), anxiety, confusion, memory loss, sleep disturbances (see warning above).
  
  
• Cushing's syndrome, characterised by a moon-shaped face.
  
  
• Menstrual disturbances.
  
  
• Sodium and water retention.
  
  
• Increase in blood pressure (hypertension).
  
  
• Decrease in the level of potassium in the blood.
  
  
• Decrease in the production of natural steroids by the adrenal glands (adrenal suppression - see warning above).
  
  
• Effects on the eyes, such as raised pressure inside the eye (glaucoma), cataracts.
  
  
• Slowed growth in children and adolescents.
  
  
• Hiccups.
  
  
• Blood clots in the blood vessels (thromboembolism).
  
  
• The side effects listed above are rare when this medicine is injected into or around a joint. The principal side effects following joint injection are a temporary increase in pain and swelling, flushing or dizziness.

Triamcinolone is known by the following names:

• Aristocort
  
• Aristospan
• Cenocort
• Cinalone
• Kenalog
• Kenaject
• Clinacort

If you or a loved one have suffered serious side effects of Kenalog, Kenolog injury or Kenalog death while using the Kenolog you may be entitled to compensation. Contact the Kenolog side effects lawyers of Ennis & Ennis, P.A. today for a free nationwide case evaluation. Our experienced Kenolog lawyers can answer any questions you may have about Kenolog side effects or a potential Kenolog lawsuit. Fill out the case evaluation form on this page or call toll free: 1.800.856.6405.

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