Catheter, Angioplasty, Peripheral, Transluminal
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 Catheter MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#96 of 1000 · 34,818 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 34,818 reports
- RANK #96 of 1000
- DEATH 179 death-typed
- INJ 5,323 injury-typed
- MALF 28,997 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2021: 2,492
- PHOTO Stretcher, Wheeled
Nearest event-volume peer: Stretcher, Wheeled (33 report gap)
Catheter, Angioplasty, Peripheral, Transluminal sits #96 of 1000 among tracked device types with 34,818 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 0.5% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
- INJ 15.3% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-15.2 pp)
- MALF 83.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+18.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Material Rupture is 48% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 33% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 49% of location-tagged rows .
Catheter in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Rod
Rod, Fixation, Intramedullary And Accessories
36,507 reports
- Replacement H…
Replacement Heart-Valve
36,406 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Long-Term Greater Than 30 Days
35,537 reports
- Stretcher
Stretcher, Wheeled
34,851 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Angioplasty, Peripheral, Transluminal
34,818 reports
- Detector And…
Detector And Alarm, Arrhythmia
33,206 reports
What this shows Catheter, Angioplasty, Peripheral, Transluminal carries 34,818 MAUDE reports, ranked #96 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MAPLE GROVE →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, 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 (34,818 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (179 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Catheter 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 Catheter; 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.