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Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia

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

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openFDA event book Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#837 of 1000 · 547 reports · 2014–2026

  • BOOK 547 reports
  • RANK #837 of 1000
  • DEATH 7 death-typed
  • INJ 485 injury-typed
  • MALF 54 malfunction
  • SPAN 2014–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 104
  • PHOTO Instrument

Nearest event-volume peer: Instrument, Ent Manual Surgical (1 report gap)

Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia sits #837 of 1000 among tracked device types with 547 MAUDE reports spanning 2014–2026. 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 1.3% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.2 pp)
  • INJ 88.7% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+58.2 pp)
  • MALF 9.9% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-54.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Defective Device is 32% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. accounts for 59% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 68% of location-tagged rows .

Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia carries 547 MAUDE reports, ranked #837 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 485 (88.7%)
Malfunction 54 (9.9%)
Death 7 (1.3%)
1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 277 (44.7%)
Disability 134 (21.6%)
Other 67 (10.8%)
R 60 (9.7%)
Hospitalization 53 (8.5%)
8 (1.3%)
S 5 (0.8%)
Death 5 (0.8%)
H 3 (0.5%)
O 3 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.5%)
D 2 (0.3%)

Top Product Problems

Defective Device 261
Patient Device Interaction Problem 245
Insufficient Information 123
Patient-Device Incompatibility 91
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 29
Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging 26
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 6
Expiration Date Error 5
Material Separation 5
Device Appears to Trigger Rejection 3
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 3
Detachment of Device or Device Component 2
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 2
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 2
Material Deformation 2
Migration 2
Torn Material 2
Use of Device Problem 2
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 1
Biocompatibility 1

Yearly Trend

14
2014: 1
15
2015: 1
16
2016: 3
17
2017: 7
18
2018: 31
19
2019: 61
20
2020: 45
21
2021: 58
22
2022: 104
23
2023: 76
24
2024: 65
25
2025: 84
26
2026: 11

Related Entities for Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia

Top Manufacturers

DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. 312
DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. -1213643 157
W.L. GORE & ASSOCIATES 36
SOFRADIM PRODUCTION SAS 12
W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC. 11
UNK 2

Event Locations

371 (67.8%)
I 166 (30.3%)
NO INFORMATION 7 (1.3%)
HOSPITAL 3 (0.5%)

Compare DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. vs DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. -1213643 →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia, 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 (547 here).

Instrument, Ent Manual Surgical 546 Orthopedic Tray 546 Prosthesis 548 Needle, Suturing, Disposable 545

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (7 here), distinct from the volume row.

Device, Warming. Blood And Plasma 7 Dressing, Wound, Occlusive 7 Image-Intensified Fluoroscopic X-Ray System 7 Instrument 7

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia 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, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia; 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.