What are FDA adverse event reports for Ligator, Esophageal?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Ligator, Esophageal, there are 10,346 total reports including 71 death reports and 904 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Ligator, Esophageal?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Ligator, Esophageal

Name: Ligator, Esophageal - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Ligator, Esophageal MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#208 of 1000 · 10,346 reports · 1993–2026

BOOK 10,346 reports
RANK #208 of 1000
DEATH 71 death-typed
INJ 904 injury-typed
MALF 9,350 malfunction
SPAN 1993–2026
PEAK 2009: 1,161
PHOTO Appliance

Nearest event-volume peer: Appliance, Fixation, Spinal Intervertebral Body (22 report gap)

Ligator, Esophageal sits #208 of 1000 among tracked device types with 10,346 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
INJ 8.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-21.7 pp)
MALF 90.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+25.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Fire is 49% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 55% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 79% of location-tagged rows .

Recorder

10,606
System

10,382
Appliance

10,368
Ligator (this)

10,346
Stent

10,266
Prosthesis

10,024

What this shows Ligator, Esophageal carries 10,346 MAUDE reports, ranked #208 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 9,350 (90.4%)

Injury 904 (8.7%)

Death 71 (0.7%)

14 (0.1%)

Other 7 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

9,275 (88.6%)

Required Intervention 685 (6.5%)

Other 181 (1.7%)

Hospitalization 123 (1.2%)

R 89 (0.9%)

Death 66 (0.6%)

O 20 (0.2%)

H 15 (0.1%)

L 7 (0.1%)

Life Threatening 3 (0.0%)

D 2 (0.0%)

Disability 2 (0.0%)

S 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

1993: 2

1994: 3

1996: 6

1997: 9

1998: 4

1999: 5

2000: 9

2001: 38

2002: 64

2003: 76

2004: 66

2005: 47

2006: 92

2007: 84

2008: 451

2009: 1,161

2010: 600

2011: 671

2012: 719

2013: 750

2014: 117

2015: 76

2016: 94

2017: 88

2018: 124

2019: 294

2020: 345

2021: 674

2022: 808

2023: 689

2024: 921

2025: 1,098

2026: 161

Top Manufacturers

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 5,212

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH 1,333

WILSON-COOK MEDICAL INC 867

COOK ENDOSCOPY 707

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - SPENCER 455

WILSON-COOK MEDICAL INC. 384

AOMORI OLYMPUS CO., LTD. 254

WILSON-COOK MEDICAL, INC. 223

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC 104

Event Locations

8,134 (78.6%)

I 1,212 (11.7%)

HOSPITAL 894 (8.6%)

NO INFORMATION 43 (0.4%)

OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 36 (0.3%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 10 (0.1%)

AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 6 (0.1%)

OTHER 6 (0.1%)

INVALID DATA 2 (0.0%)

NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.0%)

UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Ligator, Esophageal, 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 (10,346 here).

Appliance 10,368 System 10,382 Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery 10,266 Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, 10,606

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (71 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter, Hemodialysis, Non-Implanted 72 Catheter, Ultrasound, Intravascular 72 Iliac Covered Stent, Arterial 70 Intestinal Stimulator 72

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Ligator, Esophageal 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 Ligator, Esophageal; 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.

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Event-type mix vs corpus