2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Agent, Injectable, Embolic

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 Agent, Injectable, Embolic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#405 of 1000 · 3,062 reports · 2001–2026

  • BOOK 3,062 reports
  • RANK #405 of 1000
  • DEATH 259 death-typed
  • INJ 1,897 injury-typed
  • MALF 898 malfunction
  • SPAN 2001–2026
  • PEAK 2023: 433
  • PHOTO Lenses

Nearest event-volume peer: Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear (1 report gap)

Agent, Injectable, Embolic sits #405 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,062 MAUDE reports spanning 2001–2026. 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 → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Agent, Injectable, Embolic carries 29.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 35.5pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 8.5% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+7.0 pp)
  • INJ 62.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+31.7 pp)
  • MALF 29.3% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-35.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 43% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MICRO THERAPEUTICS, INC. DBA EV3 accounts for 74% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 63% of location-tagged rows .

Agent, Injectable, Embolic in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Agent, Injectable, Embolic carries 3,062 MAUDE reports, ranked #405 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,897 (62.0%)
Malfunction 898 (29.3%)
Death 259 (8.5%)
7 (0.2%)
Other 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

873 (25.4%)
Required Intervention 703 (20.5%)
Other 511 (14.9%)
Disability 491 (14.3%)
Death 249 (7.2%)
R 152 (4.4%)
S 145 (4.2%)
Hospitalization 131 (3.8%)
Life Threatening 59 (1.7%)
L 46 (1.3%)
H 32 (0.9%)
O 32 (0.9%)
D 13 (0.4%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,361
Migration or Expulsion of Device 330
Detachment of Device or Device Component 202
Entrapment of Device 168
Break 135
Burst Container or Vessel 120
Leak/Splash 118
Material Rupture 110
Physical Resistance/Sticking 83
Difficult to Remove 82
Detachment Of Device Component 69
Insufficient Device Problem Information 65
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 55
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 52
Unintended Movement 45
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 43
Compatibility Problem 39
Premature Activation 34
Material Deformation 33
Fluid/Blood Leak 30

Yearly Trend

01
2001: 4
03
2003: 8
04
2004: 1
05
2005: 8
06
2006: 11
07
2007: 18
08
2008: 61
09
2009: 56
10
2010: 85
11
2011: 97
12
2012: 61
13
2013: 82
14
2014: 73
15
2015: 238
16
2016: 221
17
2017: 365
18
2018: 119
19
2019: 119
20
2020: 124
21
2021: 150
22
2022: 176
23
2023: 433
24
2024: 248
25
2025: 177
26
2026: 127

Reports fell to 177 in 2025, down from an average of 341 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Agent, Injectable, Embolic

Event Locations

1,941 (63.4%)
I 1,080 (35.3%)
HOSPITAL 33 (1.1%)
NO INFORMATION 3 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)
OTHER 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare MICRO THERAPEUTICS, INC. DBA EV3 vs EV3 NEUROVASCULAR →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Agent, Injectable, Embolic: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (3,062 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (259 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Agent, Injectable, Embolic 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 Agent, Injectable, Embolic; 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.