Lens, Multifocal Intraocular
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 Lens, Multifocal Intraocular MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#179 of 1000 · 14,298 reports · 1997–2026
- BOOK 14,298 reports
- RANK #179 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 10,887 injury-typed
- MALF 2,402 malfunction
- SPAN 1997–2026
- PEAK 2025: 1,311
- PHOTO Set
Nearest event-volume peer: Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer (33 report gap)
Lens, Multifocal Intraocular sits #179 of 1000 among tracked device types with 14,298 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 →
Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm
Lens, Multifocal Intraocular carries 16.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 48.0pp below 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 76.1% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+45.9 pp)
- MALF 16.8% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-48.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 52% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - HUNTINGTON accounts for 39% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 63% of location-tagged rows .
Lens, Multifocal Intraocular in the event-volume neighbourhood
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What this shows Lens, Multifocal Intraocular carries 14,298 MAUDE reports, ranked #179 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports in 2025 (1,311) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,071.
Related Entities for Lens, Multifocal Intraocular
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - HUNTINGTON vs ABBOTT MEDICAL OPTICS →
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Lens, Multifocal Intraocular 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.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (14,298 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.