Rezulin Side Effects
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Rezulin? 
How serious are the Rezulin side effects?
What are Rezulin side effects patients have experienced?
What are some symptoms of Rezulin liver failure?
What is a liver transplantation operation?
When did Warner-Lambert first learn of the serious Rezulin side
effects?
Do I have any Rezulin legal rights?
What is a Rezulin attorney?
What is Rezulin?
Rezulin is an oral medication prescribed for patients with Type-2
diabetes. Approved in 1997, Rezulin remained on the U.S. market
until March 2000, due to the liver failure Rezulin caused resulting
in at least 63 deaths.
How serious are the Rezulin
side effects?
There have been an estimated 430 Rezulin patients that suffered
liver failure, including 391 deaths.
It was found that a Rezulin patient's risk of liver failure is increased
1,200 times by taking the diabetes drug.
What are Rezulin side effects
patients have experienced?
Liver damage Rezulin can cause is hard to detect due to the minimal
symptoms during the beginning stages of the disease. Later stages
of liver damage Rezulin patients
may experience jaundice, abdominal pain, nausea, clay colored stools,
and dark urine. Rezulin liver damage can result in the need for
a liver transplant or death. Heart failure has been linked to the
use of Rezulin as well.
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What are some symptoms
of Rezulin liver failure?
Symptoms of liver failure include,
jaundice, sever fatigue, abdominal pain, weight loss, nausea, loss
of appetite, back pain, darkened urine, and vomiting.
What is a liver transplantation
operation?
A liver transplant operation replaces a diseased or failed liver
with a new one or a portion of one from a donor. Rezulin patients
who have experienced liver failure have needed to have liver transplants.
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When did Warner-Lambert
first learn of the serious Rezulin side effects?
The company first knew of at least 12 people who had suffered potentially
life-threatening liver damage during
Rezulin's clinical trials in 1993. In the first 18 months Rezulin
was on the market, there were 56 reports from FDA records showing
heart failure.
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Do I have any Rezulin legal
rights?
If you have suffered because of the negligent practices that Warner-Lambert
used to manufacture and market Rezulin, contact
us. You may be entitled to a large compensation for the damages
and suffering that have resulted from taking the diabetes drug.
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What is a Rezulin attorney?
Rezulin-Recall-Attorney has been created to provide information
to those wishing to learn more about their rights following the
March 21, 2000 Rezulin recall. If
you would like more information on the Rezulin recall, we have provided
contact information so that you
can speak directly with an expert Rezulin attorney.
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