Dilator, Vessel, For Percutaneous Catheterization
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 Dilator LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#401 of 1000 · 2,929 reports · 1993–2026
- BOOK 2,929 reports
- RANK #401 of 1000
- DEATH 165 death-typed
- INJ 1,547 injury-typed
- MALF 1,200 malfunction
- SPAN 1993–2026
- PEAK 2023: 386
- PHOTO Test, Hepatitis B
Nearest event-volume peer: Test, Hepatitis B (B Antigen, B Surface Antigen, Be Antigen) (9 report gap)
Dilator, Vessel, For Percutaneous Catheterization sits #401 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,929 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 5.6% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+4.1 pp)
- INJ 52.8% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+22.4 pp)
- MALF 41.0% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-23.5 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 30% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer CORDIS DE MEXICO accounts for 34% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 64% of location-tagged rows .
Dilator in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Test
Test, Hiv Detection
2,947 reports
- Test
Test, Hepatitis B (B Antigen, B Surface Antigen, Be Antigen)
2,938 reports
- Dilator (this)
Dilator, Vessel, For Percutaneous Catheterization
2,929 reports
- Assay
Assay, Glycosylated Hemoglobin
2,919 reports
- System
System, Photopheresis, Extracorporeal
2,915 reports
- Adaptor
Adaptor, Hygiene
2,907 reports
What this shows Dilator, Vessel, For Percutaneous Catheterization carries 2,929 MAUDE reports, ranked #401 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 Dilator, Vessel, For Percutaneous Catheterization
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Dilator, 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 (2,929 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (165 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Dilator 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 Dilator; 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.