2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Intraocular Lens

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 III (highest risk, premarket approval required), regulated under 21 CFR §886.3600 (Ophthalmic panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Intraocular Lens MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#47 of 1000 · 79,358 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 79,358 reports
  • RANK #47 of 1000
  • DEATH 4 death-typed
  • INJ 34,033 injury-typed
  • MALF 41,831 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 5,388
  • PHOTO Analyzer

Nearest event-volume peer: Analyzer, Chemistry (Photometric, Discrete), For Clinical Use (486 report gap)

Intraocular Lens sits #47 of 1000 among tracked device types with 79,358 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

Intraocular Lens carries 42.9% INJURY-coded reports, 12.6pp 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 42.9% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+12.6 pp)
  • MALF 52.7% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-12.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer AMO PUERTO RICO MFG. INC. accounts for 17% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 69% of location-tagged rows .

Intraocular Lens in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Intraocular Lens carries 79,358 MAUDE reports, ranked #47 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 41,831 (52.7%)
Injury 34,033 (42.9%)
Other 3,287 (4.1%)
203 (0.3%)
Death 4 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

40,924 (50.8%)
Required Intervention 26,488 (32.9%)
Other 11,353 (14.1%)
R 1,010 (1.3%)
Disability 221 (0.3%)
Hospitalization 221 (0.3%)
O 178 (0.2%)
S 134 (0.2%)
H 17 (0.0%)
Death 8 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 6 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 5 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 4 (0.0%)
L 3 (0.0%)
C 2 (0.0%)
D 2 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 11,456
Break 7,761
Explanted 5,805
Lens (IOL), torn, split, cracked 3,724
Device remains implanted 3,458
Lens replacement 3,241
Scratched Material 3,053
Haptic(s), bent 2,435
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 2,377
Abnormal 2,329
Packaging Problem 2,308
Leak/Splash 2,255
Crack 2,213
Haptic(s), broken 2,181
Defective Component 2,066
Insufficient Device Problem Information 1,855
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 1,762
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 1,720
Tears, rips, holes in device, device material 1,674
Material Split, Cut or Torn 1,666

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 39
93
1993: 50
94
1994: 50
95
1995: 60
96
1996: 209
97
1997: 352
98
1998: 1,693
99
1999: 2,070
00
2000: 1,243
01
2001: 1,139
02
2002: 1,224
03
2003: 1,569
04
2004: 2,745
05
2005: 2,070
06
2006: 3,727
07
2007: 3,640
08
2008: 3,137
09
2009: 1,862
10
2010: 2,172
11
2011: 2,672
12
2012: 2,802
13
2013: 2,555
14
2014: 2,650
15
2015: 4,673
16
2016: 2,214
17
2017: 2,386
18
2018: 2,501
19
2019: 3,086
20
2020: 1,981
21
2021: 2,925
22
2022: 3,290
23
2023: 3,906
24
2024: 4,162
25
2025: 5,388
26
2026: 3,116

Reports in 2025 (5,388) held close to the prior two-year average of 4,034.

Related Entities for Intraocular Lens

Event Locations

55,034 (69.3%)
I 16,487 (20.8%)
HOSPITAL 3,286 (4.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1,837 (2.3%)
NO INFORMATION 795 (1.0%)
UNKNOWN 792 (1.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 413 (0.5%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 269 (0.3%)
OTHER 178 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 163 (0.2%)
HOME 50 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 49 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 2 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 2 (0.0%)
OPERATING ROOM 1 (0.0%)

Compare AMO PUERTO RICO MFG. INC. vs STAAR SURGICAL CO. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Intraocular Lens: 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 (79,358 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (4 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Intraocular Lens 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 Intraocular Lens; 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.