Compensation For Delay in Diagnosing and Treating an Ovarian Cyst in young woman

In April 2024, Karen Kearney and her team achieved compensation in a  medical negligence case for a client  whose ovarian cyst was misdiagnosed as constipation by treating doctors in a HSE run hospital.

This misdiagnosis was made despite the severe abdominal pain she was in.

The expert  we instructed to review the care afforded to our client  advised us  that he was flabbergasted that  the “blindingly obvious” likelihood of it being an ovarian cyst was not considered.

Instead our client  was  discharged home in agony.

At the time of the negligence she  was aged 20.

She was eventually diagnosed several  days later  on her re-attendance to the same hospital and she underwent an emergency laparotomy and removal of a 10 cm  left ovarian cyst and a 20 cm right fallopian tube cystic mass.

The expert advised that prior to  being correctly diagnosed and treated,  our client  would have suffered considerable additional pain, anxiety and suffering.

During that time the ovarian cyst was twisting, reducing the blood supply to the ovary and hence producing the symptoms.

We served proceedings on the HSE in July 2022 and  secured an admission of breach of duty from the Defendants in February 2024.

This meant that our client’s case was an assessment and so  she was always going to win her case and the fight on our hands then was to secure sufficient compensation for our client.

We did this in settlement talks with the Defendants and which meant that our client avoided a Court case and any  ensuing publicity about her case.

She was vindicated and she could draw a line under this difficult time in her life and we were delighted to be able to assist this young woman achieve this.

Contact us at Cantillons Solicitors at +353 (0)21 4275673 or info@cantillons.com  if you would like more information.

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