2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial

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 Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#279 of 1000 · 6,244 reports · 1997–2026

  • BOOK 6,244 reports
  • RANK #279 of 1000
  • DEATH 22 death-typed
  • INJ 4,174 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,909 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2026
  • PEAK 2009: 792
  • PHOTO System

Nearest event-volume peer: System, Blood Culturing (52 report gap)

Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial sits #279 of 1000 among tracked device types with 6,244 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
  • INJ 66.8% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+36.4 pp)
  • MALF 30.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-33.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 52% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer HOLOGIC, INC accounts for 33% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 62% of location-tagged rows .

Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial carries 6,244 MAUDE reports, ranked #279 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 4,174 (66.8%)
Malfunction 1,909 (30.6%)
Other 87 (1.4%)
52 (0.8%)
Death 22 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 2,169 (28.1%)
1,967 (25.5%)
Hospitalization 1,151 (14.9%)
R 971 (12.6%)
Required Intervention 874 (11.3%)
O 268 (3.5%)
L 108 (1.4%)
H 73 (0.9%)
S 58 (0.8%)
Life Threatening 39 (0.5%)
Death 20 (0.3%)
Disability 20 (0.3%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)
D 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,160
Material Puncture/Hole 191
Insufficient Information 173
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 89
Use of Device Problem 88
Fluid/Blood Leak 76
Device Displays Incorrect Message 67
Material Deformation 56
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 53
Detachment of Device or Device Component 47
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 38
Device Alarm System 34
Defective Device 30
Break 23
Material Split, Cut or Torn 21
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 20
Device Inoperable 15
Mechanical Problem 14
Leak/Splash 13
Output Problem 12

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 1
98
1998: 2
99
1999: 6
02
2002: 9
03
2003: 41
04
2004: 46
05
2005: 91
06
2006: 142
07
2007: 180
08
2008: 290
09
2009: 792
10
2010: 389
11
2011: 433
12
2012: 408
13
2013: 368
14
2014: 309
15
2015: 318
16
2016: 296
17
2017: 292
18
2018: 262
19
2019: 249
20
2020: 197
21
2021: 229
22
2022: 179
23
2023: 213
24
2024: 213
25
2025: 251
26
2026: 38

Related Entities for Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial

Event Locations

3,845 (61.6%)
I 1,312 (21.0%)
HOSPITAL 784 (12.6%)
NO INFORMATION 175 (2.8%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 48 (0.8%)
OTHER 28 (0.4%)
UNKNOWN 24 (0.4%)
AMBULATORY HEALTH CARE FACILITY 8 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 8 (0.1%)
CLINIC - WALK IN, OTHER 4 (0.1%)
HOME 3 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 2 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)

Compare HOLOGIC, INC vs HOLOGIC, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial, 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 (6,244 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (22 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial 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 Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial; 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.