2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

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

#436 of 1000 · 2,671 reports · 2007–2026

  • BOOK 2,671 reports
  • RANK #436 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 2,014 injury-typed
  • MALF 657 malfunction
  • SPAN 2007–2026
  • PEAK 2018: 511
  • PHOTO Prosthesis

Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal (12 report gap)

Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant sits #436 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,671 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 →

Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm

Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant carries 75.4% INJURY-coded reports, 45.1pp 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 75.4% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+45.1 pp)
  • MALF 24.6% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-40.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 44% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - ALCON PRECISION DEVICE accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 60% 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 2,671 MAUDE reports, ranked #436 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 2,014 (75.4%)
Malfunction 657 (24.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 1,037 (36.0%)
Required Intervention 945 (32.8%)
660 (22.9%)
R 139 (4.8%)
O 44 (1.5%)
S 22 (0.8%)
Disability 18 (0.6%)
Hospitalization 10 (0.3%)
H 6 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,139
Malposition of Device 412
Insufficient Device Problem Information 202
Obstruction of Flow 177
Break 136
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 89
Use of Device Problem 60
Patient-Device Incompatibility 50
Difficult to Advance 41
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 39
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 37
Migration 37
Migration or Expulsion of Device 37
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 29
Positioning Problem 28
Separation Failure 25
Contamination 22
Defective Device 13
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 11
Difficult to Insert 10

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: 119

Reports in 2025 (143) held close to the prior two-year average of 174.

Related Entities for Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant

Event Locations

I 1,600 (59.9%)
1,024 (38.3%)
NO INFORMATION 25 (0.9%)
HOSPITAL 14 (0.5%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 5 (0.2%)
OTHER 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant 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.

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.