2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#469 of 1000 · 2,236 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 2,236 reports
  • RANK #469 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 2,112 injury-typed
  • MALF 103 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 280
  • PHOTO Tray

Nearest event-volume peer: Tray, Surgical, Instrument (5 report gap)

Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux sits #469 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,236 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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

Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux carries 94.5% INJURY-coded reports, 64.2pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 94.5% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+64.2 pp)
  • MALF 4.6% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-60.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 36% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNK accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 51% of location-tagged rows .

Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux carries 2,236 MAUDE reports, ranked #469 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 2,112 (94.5%)
Malfunction 103 (4.6%)
Other 18 (0.8%)
Death 2 (0.1%)
1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 1,197 (43.5%)
Hospitalization 535 (19.4%)
453 (16.5%)
S 363 (13.2%)
O 133 (4.8%)
R 29 (1.1%)
Other 19 (0.7%)
H 18 (0.7%)
Disability 4 (0.1%)
Death 1 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,159
Device Appears to Trigger Rejection 680
Patient Device Interaction Problem 447
Detachment of Device or Device Component 308
Migration or Expulsion of Device 196
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 116
Insufficient Device Problem Information 94
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 42
Unexpected Therapeutic Results 21
Material Erosion 19
Patient-Device Incompatibility 19
Device-Device Incompatibility 18
Nonstandard Device 13
Defective Component 9
Explanted 9
Material Separation 8
Break 7
Use of Device Problem 7
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 6
Malposition of Device 5

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 3
97
1997: 4
98
1998: 3
99
1999: 2
00
2000: 2
01
2001: 1
02
2002: 4
05
2005: 1
13
2013: 32
14
2014: 42
15
2015: 57
16
2016: 92
17
2017: 133
18
2018: 203
19
2019: 280
20
2020: 193
21
2021: 263
22
2022: 250
23
2023: 246
24
2024: 168
25
2025: 165
26
2026: 91

Reports in 2025 (165) held close to the prior two-year average of 207.

Related Entities for Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux

Top Manufacturers

UNK 2

Event Locations

1,133 (50.7%)
I 1,068 (47.8%)
NO INFORMATION 16 (0.7%)
HOSPITAL 14 (0.6%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux: 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 (2,236 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux 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 Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux; 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.