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Abby Lee Miller Sues Hospital Over Catheter Allegedly Left In Her Body for Years

  • In 2025, Abby Lee Miller, the 59-year-old former star of "Dance Moms," filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a major hospital in Los Angeles, claiming that a catheter was mistakenly left inside her abdomen following spinal surgery performed in 2020.
  • The lawsuit alleges that despite Miller repeatedly reporting abdominal pain over years, physicians including Dr. Hooman Melamed dismissed her symptoms and failed to order imaging to detect the retained catheter.
  • In June 2023, three years after the surgery, a CT scan revealed a bright blue catheter embedded beneath Miller’s skin surrounded by scar tissue, which was surgically removed the following month.
  • Miller's attorney Nadine Lewis emphasized that this case goes beyond medical malpractice, highlighting a widespread and troubling reality: women's pain frequently goes unacknowledged or minimized by healthcare providers who are supposed to support them.
  • Miller’s legal team is pursuing damages approaching $1.5 million, citing negligence, emotional suffering, and the enduring effects on her daily life as a paraplegic experiencing chronic pain.
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TMZ broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.
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