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Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity

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, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#146 of 1000 · 17,588 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 17,588 reports
  • RANK #146 of 1000
  • DEATH 191 death-typed
  • INJ 6,714 injury-typed
  • MALF 10,593 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2010: 1,458
  • PHOTO General Surgery Tray

Nearest event-volume peer: General Surgery Tray (21 report gap)

Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity sits #146 of 1000 among tracked device types with 17,588 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 1.1% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.4 pp)
  • INJ 38.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+7.7 pp)
  • MALF 60.2% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-4.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Deflation Problem is 17% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ALLERGAN accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 77% of location-tagged rows .

Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity carries 17,588 MAUDE reports, ranked #146 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 10,593 (60.2%)
Injury 6,714 (38.2%)
Death 191 (1.1%)
64 (0.4%)
Other 26 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

7,217 (37.7%)
Required Intervention 5,686 (29.7%)
Other 3,363 (17.6%)
R 1,018 (5.3%)
Hospitalization 1,015 (5.3%)
O 213 (1.1%)
Death 193 (1.0%)
L 154 (0.8%)
S 101 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 80 (0.4%)
H 76 (0.4%)
Disability 33 (0.2%)
D 5 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 3 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Deflation Problem 855
Insufficient Information 831
Fluid/Blood Leak 785
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 662
Patient-Device Incompatibility 300
Device Slipped 288
Unintended Deflation 215
Air/Gas in Device 158
Inflation Problem 157
Free or Unrestricted Flow 156
Migration or Expulsion of Device 146
Leak/Splash 127
Use of Device Problem 124
Migration 107
Material Erosion 69
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 61
Detachment of Device or Device Component 42
Patient Device Interaction Problem 38
Break 26
Material Separation 26

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 2
95
1995: 1
97
1997: 1
99
1999: 3
01
2001: 21
02
2002: 835
03
2003: 634
04
2004: 645
05
2005: 724
06
2006: 638
07
2007: 587
08
2008: 1,356
09
2009: 1,365
10
2010: 1,458
11
2011: 1,340
12
2012: 1,383
13
2013: 920
14
2014: 563
15
2015: 560
16
2016: 514
17
2017: 528
18
2018: 453
19
2019: 334
20
2020: 165
21
2021: 193
22
2022: 609
23
2023: 975
24
2024: 451
25
2025: 300
26
2026: 30

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Top Manufacturers

ALLERGAN 5,065

Event Locations

13,587 (77.3%)
I 2,297 (13.1%)
NO INFORMATION 666 (3.8%)
OTHER 660 (3.8%)
HOSPITAL 274 (1.6%)
UNKNOWN 68 (0.4%)
HOME 18 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 6 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 4 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 3 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity, 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 (17,588 here).

General Surgery Tray 17,567 Device, Incontinence, Mechanical/Hydraulic 17,504 Leadless Pacemaker 17,499 Phakic Toric Intraocular Lens 17,499

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (191 here), distinct from the volume row.

Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber 191 Electrode 194 System, Monitoring, Perinatal 194 Bronchoscope 187

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity 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, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity; 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.