2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical

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 §876.4500 (Gastroenterology, Urology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#419 of 1000 · 2,875 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 2,875 reports
  • RANK #419 of 1000
  • DEATH 12 death-typed
  • INJ 664 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,177 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 301
  • PHOTO Pin, Fixation, Smooth

Nearest event-volume peer: Pin, Fixation, Smooth (7 report gap)

Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical sits #419 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,875 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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

Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical carries 75.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 10.9pp 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 23.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-7.2 pp)
  • MALF 75.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+10.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 37% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 41% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 68% of location-tagged rows .

Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical carries 2,875 MAUDE reports, ranked #419 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 2,177 (75.7%)
Injury 664 (23.1%)
Other 17 (0.6%)
Death 12 (0.4%)
5 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,106 (70.6%)
Required Intervention 495 (16.6%)
Other 120 (4.0%)
Hospitalization 105 (3.5%)
R 103 (3.5%)
H 17 (0.6%)
O 17 (0.6%)
Death 8 (0.3%)
D 5 (0.2%)
L 3 (0.1%)
Disability 2 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 1,239
Material Deformation 371
Separation Failure 224
Detachment of Device or Device Component 197
Material Split, Cut or Torn 179
Difficult to Remove 177
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 153
Detachment Of Device Component 139
Difficult to Open or Close 132
Use of Device Problem 96
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 92
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 56
Premature Activation 51
Replace 48
Component(s), broken 42
Torn Material 39
Device Issue 37
Tip breakage 37
Wire(s), breakage of 35
Source, detachment from 34

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 5
97
1997: 2
98
1998: 10
99
1999: 4
00
2000: 16
01
2001: 7
02
2002: 10
03
2003: 3
04
2004: 24
05
2005: 31
06
2006: 40
07
2007: 40
08
2008: 124
09
2009: 141
10
2010: 116
11
2011: 112
12
2012: 64
13
2013: 85
14
2014: 98
15
2015: 137
16
2016: 157
17
2017: 145
18
2018: 84
19
2019: 123
20
2020: 164
21
2021: 112
22
2022: 245
23
2023: 224
24
2024: 301
25
2025: 127
26
2026: 124

Reports fell to 127 in 2025, down from an average of 263 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical

Event Locations

1,958 (68.1%)
I 805 (28.0%)
HOSPITAL 101 (3.5%)
NO INFORMATION 8 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - SPENCER →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical: 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 (2,875 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (12 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical 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 Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical; 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.