2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Graft, Vascular, Synthetic/Biologic Composite

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 §870.3450 (Cardiovascular panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Graft LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#700 of 1000 · 878 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 878 reports
  • RANK #700 of 1000
  • DEATH 43 death-typed
  • INJ 378 injury-typed
  • MALF 453 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 1997: 83
  • PHOTO Culture Media

Nearest event-volume peer: Culture Media, Non-Selective And Non-Differential (1 report gap)

Graft, Vascular, Synthetic/Biologic Composite sits #700 of 1000 among tracked device types with 878 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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

Graft carries 51.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 13.2pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 4.9% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+3.4 pp)
  • INJ 43.1% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+12.8 pp)
  • MALF 51.6% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-13.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Device remains implanted is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR, LLC accounts for 60% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location HOSPITAL is 64% of location-tagged rows .

Graft in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Graft, Vascular, Synthetic/Biologic Composite carries 878 MAUDE reports, ranked #700 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 453 (51.6%)
Injury 378 (43.1%)
Death 43 (4.9%)
Other 3 (0.3%)
1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 441 (43.4%)
183 (18.0%)
Required Intervention 120 (11.8%)
Hospitalization 83 (8.2%)
R 77 (7.6%)
Death 43 (4.2%)
O 35 (3.4%)
L 15 (1.5%)
S 9 (0.9%)
Life Threatening 8 (0.8%)
Disability 2 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Device remains implanted 322
Leak/Splash 310
Fluid/Blood Leak 84
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 84
Hole In Material 69
Explanted 47
Replace 39
Product Quality Problem 27
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 26
Material Frayed 26
Manufacturing, Packaging or Shipping Problem 24
Repair 23
Material Puncture/Hole 21
Off-Label Use 21
Nonstandard Device 20
Insufficient Device Problem Information 18
Tears, rips, holes in device, device material 17
Surgical graft, failure of 13
Device Issue 12
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 12

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 55
97
1997: 83
98
1998: 54
99
1999: 59
00
2000: 49
01
2001: 28
02
2002: 33
03
2003: 40
04
2004: 29
05
2005: 31
06
2006: 30
07
2007: 14
08
2008: 12
09
2009: 5
10
2010: 7
11
2011: 13
12
2012: 14
13
2013: 34
14
2014: 24
15
2015: 29
16
2016: 20
17
2017: 28
18
2018: 15
19
2019: 28
20
2020: 24
21
2021: 34
22
2022: 21
23
2023: 16
24
2024: 10
25
2025: 28
26
2026: 11

Reports rose to 28 in 2025, up from an average of 13 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Graft, Vascular, Synthetic/Biologic Composite

Event Locations

HOSPITAL 558 (63.6%)
161 (18.3%)
I 116 (13.2%)
HOME 18 (2.1%)
NO INFORMATION 10 (1.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 6 (0.7%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.5%)
OTHER 4 (0.5%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR, LLC vs MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR LLC →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Graft: 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 (878 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (43 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Graft 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 Graft; 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.