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Acid, Hyaluronic, Intraarticular

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Acid, Hyaluronic, Intraarticular LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#234 of 1000 · 8,356 reports · 1997–2026

  • BOOK 8,356 reports
  • RANK #234 of 1000
  • DEATH 301 death-typed
  • INJ 5,541 injury-typed
  • MALF 671 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2026
  • PEAK 2018: 1,099
  • PHOTO Dialyzer

Nearest event-volume peer: Dialyzer, Capillary, Hollow Fiber (13 report gap)

Acid, Hyaluronic, Intraarticular sits #234 of 1000 among tracked device types with 8,356 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 3.6% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.1 pp)
  • INJ 66.3% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+35.9 pp)
  • MALF 8.0% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-56.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 58% of coded problems · Top event location is 49% of location-tagged rows .

Acid, Hyaluronic, Intraarticular in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Acid, Hyaluronic, Intraarticular carries 8,356 MAUDE reports, ranked #234 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Injury 5,541 (66.3%)
Other 1,436 (17.2%)
Malfunction 671 (8.0%)
407 (4.9%)
Death 301 (3.6%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

Required Intervention 2,851 (26.5%)
Other 2,385 (22.2%)
Hospitalization 1,477 (13.7%)
R 1,340 (12.4%)
813 (7.6%)
O 493 (4.6%)
Disability 477 (4.4%)
S 423 (3.9%)
Death 303 (2.8%)
H 90 (0.8%)
L 53 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 47 (0.4%)
D 11 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2,704
Device Contamination With Biological Material 535
Insufficient Information 313
Patient-Device Incompatibility 303
Microbial Contamination of Device 177
Off-Label Use 120
Nonstandard Device 98
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 63
Break 42
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 40
Patient Device Interaction Problem 40
Use of Device Problem 40
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 39
No Apparent Adverse Event 35
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 31
Contamination 18
Unexpected Therapeutic Results 13
Lack of Effect 11
Leak/Splash 10
Manufacturing, Packaging or Shipping Problem 10

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 9
98
1998: 34
99
1999: 16
00
2000: 29
01
2001: 37
02
2002: 72
03
2003: 88
04
2004: 132
05
2005: 123
06
2006: 130
07
2007: 132
08
2008: 222
09
2009: 314
10
2010: 323
11
2011: 385
12
2012: 462
13
2013: 637
14
2014: 340
15
2015: 293
16
2016: 313
17
2017: 506
18
2018: 1,099
19
2019: 567
20
2020: 441
21
2021: 375
22
2022: 305
23
2023: 470
24
2024: 292
25
2025: 185
26
2026: 25

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Event Locations

4,097 (49.0%)
I 2,424 (29.0%)
NO INFORMATION 850 (10.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 424 (5.1%)
OTHER 178 (2.1%)
HOME 153 (1.8%)
HOSPITAL 112 (1.3%)
INVALID DATA 69 (0.8%)
UNKNOWN 43 (0.5%)
NURSING HOME 2 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
PUBLIC VENUE 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Acid, Hyaluronic, Intraarticular, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (8,356 here).

Dialyzer, Capillary, Hollow Fiber 8,369 Stent, Carotid 8,339 Catheter, Thrombus Retriever 8,409 Guide, Surgical, Instrument 8,257

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (301 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter 300 Catheter, Hemodialysis, Implanted 297 Set 307 Port & Catheter 293

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Acid, Hyaluronic, Intraarticular are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Acid, Hyaluronic, Intraarticular; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.