2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Lens, Multifocal Intraocular

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 Lens, Multifocal Intraocular MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#179 of 1000 · 13,624 reports · 1997–2026

  • BOOK 13,624 reports
  • RANK #179 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 10,492 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,122 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 1,311
  • PHOTO Device

Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Vascular, For Promoting Embolization (30 report gap)

Lens, Multifocal Intraocular sits #179 of 1000 among tracked device types with 13,624 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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 77.0% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+46.6 pp)
  • MALF 15.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-48.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 61% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - HUNTINGTON accounts for 39% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 61% of location-tagged rows .

Lens, Multifocal Intraocular in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Lens, Multifocal Intraocular carries 13,624 MAUDE reports, ranked #179 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 10,492 (77.0%)
Malfunction 2,122 (15.6%)
Other 1,004 (7.4%)
6 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 8,329 (58.4%)
Other 3,141 (22.0%)
2,070 (14.5%)
R 500 (3.5%)
O 145 (1.0%)
Hospitalization 47 (0.3%)
Disability 23 (0.2%)
S 17 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 5,702
Scratched Material 597
Break 514
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 447
Insufficient Information 319
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 255
Defective Device 191
Patient-Device Incompatibility 191
Crack 167
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 141
Material Opacification 134
Material Split, Cut or Torn 113
Malposition of Device 97
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 94
Device Difficult to Setup or Prepare 74
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 70
Unintended Movement 64
Material Deformation 56
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 56
Mechanical Problem 53

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 1
98
1998: 10
99
1999: 14
00
2000: 9
01
2001: 10
02
2002: 3
03
2003: 11
04
2004: 3
05
2005: 1
07
2007: 35
08
2008: 420
09
2009: 586
10
2010: 601
11
2011: 584
12
2012: 308
13
2013: 296
14
2014: 308
15
2015: 708
16
2016: 731
17
2017: 613
18
2018: 629
19
2019: 683
20
2020: 912
21
2021: 1,205
22
2022: 1,265
23
2023: 1,047
24
2024: 1,095
25
2025: 1,311
26
2026: 225

Related Entities for Lens, Multifocal Intraocular

Event Locations

8,285 (60.8%)
I 4,921 (36.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 350 (2.6%)
HOSPITAL 28 (0.2%)
NO INFORMATION 23 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 7 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 6 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)
OTHER 1 (0.0%)

Compare ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - HUNTINGTON vs ABBOTT MEDICAL OPTICS →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Lens, Multifocal Intraocular, 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 (13,624 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 Lens, Multifocal Intraocular 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 Lens, Multifocal Intraocular; 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.