Tragic fungal (aspergillus) meningitis infections have been associated with epidural steroid (cortisone) injections using a COMPOUNDED cortisone from a specialty compounding company named New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Framingham, Massachusetts. Compounding pharmacies “make their own drug products” and the FDA does not have the authority to approve the drugs.
Dr. Leimbach has not and does NOT use the corticol steroid for spinal injections in his patients that was involved in the outbreak. All medications that he uses for spinal injections are only from pharmaceutical companies that are FDA approved and regulated.
An update from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates the meningitis outbreak has now been reported in six states, 75 clinics that received the compounded steroid vials are in California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Texas and West Virginia.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said the New England Compounding Center relinquished its state operating license on October 3rd after the FDA found the fungi, aspergillus, on the inside of a sealed, steroid-injection vial.
YOU CAN REST ASSURED THAT Dr. Leimbach has not and does NOT use the corticol steroid for spinal injections in his patients that was involved in the outbreak. All medications that he uses for spinal injection are only from pharmaceutical companies that are FDA approved and regulated.
