2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant

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 Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#430 of 1000 · 2,576 reports · 2007–2026

  • BOOK 2,576 reports
  • RANK #430 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 1,979 injury-typed
  • MALF 597 malfunction
  • SPAN 2007–2026
  • PEAK 2018: 511
  • PHOTO System

Nearest event-volume peer: System, Endovascular Graft, Arteriovenous (Av) Dialysis Access Circuit Stenosis Treatment (7 report gap)

Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant sits #430 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,576 MAUDE reports spanning 2007–2026. 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 76.8% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+46.4 pp)
  • MALF 23.2% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-41.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 45% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - ALCON PRECISION DEVICE accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 62% of location-tagged rows .

Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant carries 2,576 MAUDE reports, ranked #430 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,979 (76.8%)
Malfunction 597 (23.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 1,029 (37.0%)
Required Intervention 937 (33.7%)
581 (20.9%)
R 138 (5.0%)
O 41 (1.5%)
S 22 (0.8%)
Disability 18 (0.6%)
Hospitalization 10 (0.4%)
H 6 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,065
Malposition of Device 375
Insufficient Information 191
Obstruction of Flow 169
Break 130
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 78
Use of Device Problem 55
Patient-Device Incompatibility 48
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 37
Migration or Expulsion of Device 37
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 36
Migration 36
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 26
Positioning Problem 25
Contamination 21
Defective Device 13
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 11
Difficult to Advance 10
No Apparent Adverse Event 9
Separation Failure 9

Yearly Trend

07
2007: 3
08
2008: 1
10
2010: 1
13
2013: 24
14
2014: 50
15
2015: 57
16
2016: 86
17
2017: 298
18
2018: 511
19
2019: 352
20
2020: 197
21
2021: 243
22
2022: 239
23
2023: 184
24
2024: 163
25
2025: 143
26
2026: 24

Related Entities for Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant

Event Locations

I 1,600 (62.1%)
929 (36.1%)
NO INFORMATION 25 (1.0%)
HOSPITAL 14 (0.5%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 5 (0.2%)
OTHER 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant, 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 (2,576 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 Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant 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 Pressure Lowering Implant; 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.