Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular (Lv) Pacemaker Electrode
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 Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular Pac… MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#68 of 1000 · 52,206 reports · 2005–2026
- BOOK 52,206 reports
- RANK #68 of 1000
- DEATH 1,856 death-typed
- INJ 29,356 injury-typed
- MALF 20,961 malfunction
- SPAN 2005–2026
- PEAK 2023: 4,468
- PHOTO Stimulator
Nearest event-volume peer: Stimulator, Autonomic Nerve, Implanted For Epilepsy (308 report gap)
Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular (Lv) Pacemaker Electrode sits #68 of 1000 among tracked device types with 52,206 MAUDE reports spanning 2005–2026. 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular Pac… carries 56.2% INJURY-coded reports, 25.9pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 3.6% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.0 pp)
- INJ 56.2% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+25.9 pp)
- MALF 40.2% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-24.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Device Dislodged or Dislocated is 19% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MPRI accounts for 48% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 51% of location-tagged rows .
Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular Pac… in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Stimulator
Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Tremor
52,959 reports
- Generator
Generator, Oxygen, Portable
52,785 reports
- Syringe
Syringe, Piston
52,759 reports
- Drug Eluting… (this)
Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular (Lv) Pacemaker Electrode
52,206 reports
- Stimulator
Stimulator, Autonomic Nerve, Implanted For Epilepsy
51,898 reports
- Instrument
Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Ac-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment
50,267 reports
What this shows Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular (Lv) Pacemaker Electrode carries 52,206 MAUDE reports, ranked #68 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 (3,420) held close to the prior two-year average of 3,932.
Related Entities for Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular (Lv) Pacemaker Electrode
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular Pac…: 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 (52,206 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1,856 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular Pac… 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 Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular Pac…; 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.