2024 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device

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 Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#939 of 1000 · 436 reports · 1994–2024

  • BOOK 436 reports
  • RANK #939 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 326 injury-typed
  • MALF 105 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2024
  • PEAK 2010: 215
  • PHOTO Condenser

Nearest event-volume peer: Condenser, Heat And Moisture (Artificial Nose) (1 report gap)

Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device sits #939 of 1000 among tracked device types with 436 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2024. 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

Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device carries 74.8% INJURY-coded reports, 44.5pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 74.8% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+44.5 pp)
  • MALF 24.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-40.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Insufficient Device Problem Information is 30% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer AMERICAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 92% of location-tagged rows .

Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device carries 436 MAUDE reports, ranked #939 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 326 (74.8%)
Malfunction 105 (24.1%)
Other 3 (0.7%)
2 (0.5%)

Patient Outcomes

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

R 384 (46.7%)
Hospitalization 381 (46.3%)
Required Intervention 19 (2.3%)
12 (1.5%)
Disability 11 (1.3%)
Life Threatening 6 (0.7%)
Other 6 (0.7%)
H 1 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.1%)
O 1 (0.1%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Insufficient Device Problem Information 129
Fluid/Blood Leak 110
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 53
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 29
Leak/Splash 26
Device Inoperable 12
Extrusion 9
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 9
Material Erosion 8
Migration or Expulsion of Device 7
Mechanical Problem 6
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 5
Break 5
Defective Device 4
Difficult to Open or Close 4
Inflation Problem 4
Defective Component 3
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 3
Device Slipped 3
Explanted 3

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 1
01
2001: 3
05
2005: 1
08
2008: 1
09
2009: 6
10
2010: 215
11
2011: 26
12
2012: 35
13
2013: 62
14
2014: 46
15
2015: 33
16
2016: 1
17
2017: 1
18
2018: 4
24
2024: 1

Reports rose to 4 in 2018, up from an average of 1 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device

Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

401 (92.0%)
I 16 (3.7%)
HOSPITAL 11 (2.5%)
OTHER 6 (1.4%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.5%)

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (436 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device 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 Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device; 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.