Mesh, Surgical
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 §878.3300 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Mesh, Surgical MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#199 of 1000 · 11,595 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 11,595 reports
- RANK #199 of 1000
- DEATH 47 death-typed
- INJ 10,101 injury-typed
- MALF 605 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2013: 3,351
- PHOTO Mesh
Nearest event-volume peer: Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Transvaginally Placed (59 report gap)
Mesh, Surgical sits #199 of 1000 among tracked device types with 11,595 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 sit below the device-type norm
Mesh, Surgical carries 5.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 59.6pp below 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 87.1% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+56.8 pp)
- MALF 5.2% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-59.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Insufficient Device Problem Information is 37% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 75% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 62% of location-tagged rows .
Mesh, Surgical in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- System
System, Hemodynamic, Implantable
11,799 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Transvaginally Placed
11,654 reports
- Mesh, Surgical (this)
Mesh, Surgical
11,595 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Hemodialysis, Implanted
11,428 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Fibrillation
11,392 reports
- Dermal Coolin…
Dermal Cooling Pack/Vacuum/Massager
11,387 reports
What this shows Mesh, Surgical carries 11,595 MAUDE reports, ranked #199 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 233 in 2025, down from an average of 435 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Mesh, Surgical
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mesh, Surgical: 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 (11,595 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (47 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Mesh, Surgical 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 Mesh, Surgical; 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.