Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy
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, Peripheral, Atherectomy LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#238 of 1000 · 8,008 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 8,008 reports
- RANK #238 of 1000
- DEATH 126 death-typed
- INJ 3,304 injury-typed
- MALF 4,425 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2021: 734
- PHOTO Accessories
Nearest event-volume peer: Accessories, Soft Lens Products (15 report gap)
Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy sits #238 of 1000 among tracked device types with 8,008 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 1.6% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.1 pp)
- INJ 41.3% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+10.8 pp)
- MALF 55.3% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-9.2 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 14% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 35% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .
Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Guide
Guide, Surgical, Instrument
8,257 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Hemi-, Tibial, Resurfacing (Uncemented)
8,110 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy
8,008 reports
- Accessories
Accessories, Soft Lens Products
7,993 reports
- Dermatome
Dermatome
7,806 reports
- System
System, Multipurpose For In Vitro Coagulation Studies
7,794 reports
What this shows Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy carries 8,008 MAUDE reports, ranked #238 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
Related Entities for Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy
Event Locations
Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs MEDTRONIC IRELAND →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy, 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 (8,008 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (126 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy 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, Peripheral, Atherectomy; 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.