{"id":10039,"date":"2017-08-24T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/cook-medical-issues-recall-correction-of-zenith-alpha-thoracic-endovascular-graft-and-removes-specific-sizes-from-the-market\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:58:00","slug":"cook-medical-issues-recall-correction-of-zenith-alpha-thoracic-endovascular-graft-and-removes-specific-sizes-from-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/cook-medical-issues-recall-correction-of-zenith-alpha-thoracic-endovascular-graft-and-removes-specific-sizes-from-the-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook Medical Issues Recall Correction of Zenith Alpha\u2122 Thoracic Endovascular Graft and Removes Specific Sizes from the Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cook Medical initiated a correction to the Instructions For Use (IFU) for the Zenith Alpha\u2122 Thoracic Endovascular Graft. This correction removed the indication for blunt thoracic aortic injury, also known as BTAI or \u201ctransection\u201d of the aorta because Cook has received an increase in reports of graft thrombosis and occlusion with these grafts specifically in the treatment of BTAI. Cook also initiated a voluntary recall of Zenith Alpha Thoracic products in sizes of 18-22mm, including the 26-22mm tapered device. These specific sizes are primarily used for BTAI, and are no longer available for purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cook Medical initiated a correction to the Instructions For Use (IFU) for the Zenith Alpha\u2122 Thoracic Endovascular Graft. This correction removed the indication for blunt thoracic aortic injury, also known as BTAI or \u201ctransection\u201d of the aorta because Cook has received an increase in reports of graft thrombosis and occlusion with these grafts specifically in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/cook-medical-issues-recall-correction-of-zenith-alpha-thoracic-endovascular-graft-and-removes-specific-sizes-from-the-market\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cook Medical Issues Recall Correction of Zenith Alpha\u2122 Thoracic Endovascular Graft and Removes Specific Sizes from the Market<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drug-recalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}