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.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#155 of 1000 · 17,663 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 17,663 reports
- RANK #155 of 1000
- DEATH 191 death-typed
- INJ 6,732 injury-typed
- MALF 10,650 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2010: 1,458
- PHOTO Bit, Drill
Nearest event-volume peer: Bit, Drill (91 report gap)
Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity sits #155 of 1000 among tracked device types with 17,663 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity carries 38.1% INJURY-coded reports, 7.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.1% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.4 pp)
- INJ 38.1% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+7.8 pp)
- MALF 60.3% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-4.5 pp)
Lead product-problem code Explanted is 22% 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
- Immunoassay M…
Immunoassay Method, Troponin Subunit
18,095 reports
- Humidifier
Humidifier, Respiratory Gas, (Direct Patient Interface)
18,072 reports
- Bit, Drill
Bit, Drill
17,754 reports
- Implant (this)
Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity
17,663 reports
- Unit
Unit, Electrosurgical, Endoscopic (With Or Without Accessories)
17,379 reports
- Console
Console, Heart-Lung Machine, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
17,288 reports
What this shows Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity carries 17,663 MAUDE reports, ranked #155 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 fell to 300 in 2025, down from an average of 713 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity: 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 (17,663 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (191 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.