Ligator, Hemorrhoidal
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 II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §876.4400 (Gastroenterology, Urology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Ligator, Hemorrhoidal LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#494 of 1000 · 2,058 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 2,058 reports
- RANK #494 of 1000
- DEATH 8 death-typed
- INJ 207 injury-typed
- MALF 1,838 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2019: 372
- PHOTO Continuous Glucose Mo…
Nearest event-volume peer: Continuous Glucose Monitor Retrospective Data Analysis Software (2 report gap)
Ligator, Hemorrhoidal sits #494 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,058 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 run above the device-type norm
Ligator, Hemorrhoidal carries 89.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 24.5pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.1 pp)
- INJ 10.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-20.2 pp)
- MALF 89.3% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+24.5 pp)
Lead product-problem code Positioning Failure is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - SPENCER accounts for 55% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 65% of location-tagged rows .
Ligator, Hemorrhoidal in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Handpiece
Handpiece, Air-Powered, Dental
2,071 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Hemi-, Patellar Resurfacing, Uncemented
2,066 reports
- Continuous Gl…
Continuous Glucose Monitor Retrospective Data Analysis Software
2,060 reports
- Ligator (this)
Ligator, Hemorrhoidal
2,058 reports
- Filler
Filler, Bone Void, Calcium Compound
2,056 reports
- Apparatus
Apparatus, Nitric Oxide Delivery
2,049 reports
What this shows Ligator, Hemorrhoidal carries 2,058 MAUDE reports, ranked #494 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 fell to 7 in 2025, down from an average of 24 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Ligator, Hemorrhoidal
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - SPENCER vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Ligator, Hemorrhoidal: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (2,058 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (8 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Ligator, Hemorrhoidal 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, Hemorrhoidal; 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.