Catheter, Thrombus Retriever
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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §870.1250 (Cardiovascular panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Catheter, Thrombus Retriever LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#235 of 1000 · 8,617 reports · 2004–2026
- BOOK 8,617 reports
- RANK #235 of 1000
- DEATH 896 death-typed
- INJ 3,462 injury-typed
- MALF 4,225 malfunction
- SPAN 2004–2026
- PEAK 2023: 711
- PHOTO Stent, Carotid
Nearest event-volume peer: Stent, Carotid (32 report gap)
Catheter, Thrombus Retriever sits #235 of 1000 among tracked device types with 8,617 MAUDE reports spanning 2004–2026. 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
Catheter, Thrombus Retriever carries 49.0% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 15.8pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 10.4% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+8.9 pp)
- INJ 40.2% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+9.9 pp)
- MALF 49.0% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-15.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer PENUMBRA, INC. accounts for 68% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 59% of location-tagged rows .
Catheter, Thrombus Retriever in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Catheter
Catheter, Electrode Recording, Or Probe, Electrode Recording
8,756 reports
- Lens
Lens, Guide, Intraocular
8,686 reports
- Stent, Carotid
Stent, Carotid
8,649 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Thrombus Retriever
8,617 reports
- Guide
Guide, Surgical, Instrument
8,485 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy
8,451 reports
What this shows Catheter, Thrombus Retriever carries 8,617 MAUDE reports, ranked #235 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
Reports in 2025 (572) held close to the prior two-year average of 676.
Related Entities for Catheter, Thrombus Retriever
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare PENUMBRA, INC. vs MICRO THERAPEUTICS, INC. DBA EV3 →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Thrombus Retriever: 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 (8,617 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (896 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Catheter, Thrombus Retriever 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, Thrombus Retriever; 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.