2019 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Mesh, Surgical, Non-Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed

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 LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#725 of 1000 · 787 reports · 2013–2019

  • BOOK 787 reports
  • RANK #725 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 782 injury-typed
  • MALF 4 malfunction
  • SPAN 2013–2019
  • PEAK 2015: 286
  • PHOTO Device

Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube (0 report gap)

Mesh, Surgical, Non-Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed sits #725 of 1000 among tracked device types with 787 MAUDE reports spanning 2013–2019. 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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 99.4% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+68.9 pp)
  • MALF 0.5% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-64.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 98% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 62% of location-tagged rows .

Mesh in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Mesh, Surgical, Non-Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed carries 787 MAUDE reports, ranked #725 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 782 (99.4%)
Malfunction 4 (0.5%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 595 (75.2%)
Disability 97 (12.3%)
Required Intervention 81 (10.2%)
7 (0.9%)
Hospitalization 6 (0.8%)
R 2 (0.3%)
O 1 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.1%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 365
Insufficient Information 3
Device Packaging Compromised 2
Component Missing 1
Patient-Device Incompatibility 1
Positioning Problem 1
Torn Material 1

Yearly Trend

13
2013: 61
14
2014: 66
15
2015: 286
16
2016: 267
17
2017: 96
18
2018: 9
19
2019: 2

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Event Locations

I 488 (62.0%)
295 (37.5%)
HOSPITAL 2 (0.3%)
NO INFORMATION 2 (0.3%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mesh, 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 (787 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Mesh 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; 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.