2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent

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

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#590 of 1000 · 1,271 reports · 2015–2026

  • BOOK 1,271 reports
  • RANK #590 of 1000
  • DEATH 17 death-typed
  • INJ 1,182 injury-typed
  • MALF 71 malfunction
  • SPAN 2015–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 180
  • PHOTO Continuous Measuremen…

Nearest event-volume peer: Continuous Measurement Thermometer (0 report gap)

Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent sits #590 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,271 MAUDE reports spanning 2015–2026. 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 →

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 1.3% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.2 pp)
  • INJ 93.0% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+62.6 pp)
  • MALF 5.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-58.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 47% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC IRELAND accounts for 93% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 50% of location-tagged rows .

Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent carries 1,271 MAUDE reports, ranked #590 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,182 (93.0%)
Malfunction 71 (5.6%)
Death 17 (1.3%)
Other 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 904 (62.8%)
Hospitalization 125 (8.7%)
114 (7.9%)
Other 108 (7.5%)
R 104 (7.2%)
O 34 (2.4%)
H 19 (1.3%)
Death 16 (1.1%)
S 7 (0.5%)
L 5 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.1%)
D 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 631
Biocompatibility 496
Patient-Device Incompatibility 74
Detachment of Device or Device Component 21
Migration or Expulsion of Device 17
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 11
Defective Device 11
Difficult to Remove 11
Material Deformation 9
Obstruction of Flow 9
Use of Device Problem 8
Delivered as Unsterile Product 6
Compatibility Problem 5
Deformation Due to Compressive Stress 3
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 3
Device Difficult to Setup or Prepare 3
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 3
Migration 3
Patient Device Interaction Problem 3
Complete Blockage 2

Yearly Trend

15
2015: 6
16
2016: 41
17
2017: 69
18
2018: 110
19
2019: 162
20
2020: 152
21
2021: 161
22
2022: 180
23
2023: 154
24
2024: 112
25
2025: 101
26
2026: 23

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Event Locations

638 (50.2%)
I 622 (48.9%)
NO INFORMATION 11 (0.9%)

Compare MEDTRONIC IRELAND vs COVIDIEN →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent, 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 (1,271 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (17 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent 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, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent; 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.