2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Leadless Pacemaker

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 Leadless Pacemaker MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#149 of 1000 · 17,499 reports · 2016–2026

  • BOOK 17,499 reports
  • RANK #149 of 1000
  • DEATH 1,149 death-typed
  • INJ 6,912 injury-typed
  • MALF 9,437 malfunction
  • SPAN 2016–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 4,435
  • PHOTO Phakic Toric Intraocu…

Nearest event-volume peer: Phakic Toric Intraocular Lens (0 report gap)

Leadless Pacemaker sits #149 of 1000 among tracked device types with 17,499 MAUDE reports spanning 2016–2026. 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 6.6% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+5.0 pp)
  • INJ 39.5% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+9.1 pp)
  • MALF 53.9% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-10.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code High Capture Threshold is 13% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC IRELAND accounts for 73% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 77% of location-tagged rows .

Leadless Pacemaker in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Leadless Pacemaker carries 17,499 MAUDE reports, ranked #149 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 9,437 (53.9%)
Injury 6,912 (39.5%)
Death 1,149 (6.6%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

9,375 (41.4%)
Required Intervention 3,238 (14.3%)
R 2,625 (11.6%)
Hospitalization 2,309 (10.2%)
H 1,242 (5.5%)
L 1,129 (5.0%)
Death 1,080 (4.8%)
Life Threatening 899 (4.0%)
Other 558 (2.5%)
O 132 (0.6%)
D 65 (0.3%)
S 6 (0.0%)
C 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

High Capture Threshold 3,275
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2,905
Failure to Capture 2,191
Capturing Problem 2,153
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 1,972
Use of Device Problem 1,758
Pacing Problem 1,690
Positioning Problem 1,633
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 978
Under-Sensing 850
Stretched 827
Premature Discharge of Battery 710
Material Integrity Problem 695
Device Sensing Problem 553
Mechanical Problem 474
Failure to Interrogate 472
Impedance Problem 419
Intermittent Capture 409
Unstable Capture Threshold 400
Decreased Sensitivity 396

Yearly Trend

16
2016: 84
17
2017: 290
18
2018: 656
19
2019: 837
20
2020: 1,148
21
2021: 1,479
22
2022: 1,712
23
2023: 2,626
24
2024: 3,392
25
2025: 4,435
26
2026: 840

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Event Locations

13,426 (76.7%)
I 4,038 (23.1%)
HOSPITAL 30 (0.2%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.0%)
OTHER 1 (0.0%)

Compare MEDTRONIC IRELAND vs ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC.(CRM-SYLMAR) →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Leadless Pacemaker, 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 (17,499 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1,149 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Leadless Pacemaker 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 Leadless Pacemaker; 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.