Bridgeport Hospital Patient Had Unnecessary Hysterectomy: Report

BRIDGEPORT, CT — A patient at Bridgeport Hospital underwent an unnecessary hysterectomy, according to Connecticut Health I-Team. The error occurred when a patient's biopsy results were contaminated by another patient's.

The patient had a first hysterectomy on Dec. 3, 2018. Then on Dec. 6, a pathology report found that the patient tested positive for fragments of high-grade serous carcinoma. The patient then had a total hysterectomy on Dec. 28 at a different hospital.

However, the second hospital did not find the carcinoma in the tissue and lymph nodes following surgery, according to Connecticut Health I-Team. It was later found that the patient's slide had been contaminated with another patient's pathologic material.

Following the incident, the hospital was sanctioned by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services and ordered to cease all histopathology at its lab. The sanction began in February and was removed in March.