2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Mesh, Surgical, 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.

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

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openFDA event book Mesh LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#322 of 1000 · 4,747 reports · 2006–2026

  • BOOK 4,747 reports
  • RANK #322 of 1000
  • DEATH 24 death-typed
  • INJ 4,654 injury-typed
  • MALF 65 malfunction
  • SPAN 2006–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 2,272
  • PHOTO Tape And Bandage

Nearest event-volume peer: Tape And Bandage, Adhesive (2 report gap)

Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed sits #322 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,747 MAUDE reports spanning 2006–2026. 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 0.5% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
  • INJ 98.0% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+67.6 pp)
  • MALF 1.4% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-63.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 54% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 60% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 44% 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, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed carries 4,747 MAUDE reports, ranked #322 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 4,654 (98.0%)
Malfunction 65 (1.4%)
Death 24 (0.5%)
3 (0.1%)
Other 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 3,830 (76.8%)
Other 573 (11.5%)
166 (3.3%)
R 128 (2.6%)
Hospitalization 125 (2.5%)
O 59 (1.2%)
S 40 (0.8%)
Death 25 (0.5%)
Disability 24 (0.5%)
H 9 (0.2%)
L 8 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 899
Migration 203
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 159
Insufficient Information 86
Migration or Expulsion of Device 82
Material Erosion 43
Material Protrusion/Extrusion 26
Patient-Device Incompatibility 23
Break 22
Device Appears to Trigger Rejection 20
Material Split, Cut or Torn 19
Defective Device 12
Missing Information 12
Torn Material 10
Material Twisted/Bent 7
Patient Device Interaction Problem 7
Degraded 6
Positioning Problem 6
Corroded 5
Detachment of Device or Device Component 5

Yearly Trend

06
2006: 1
11
2011: 7
12
2012: 160
13
2013: 2,272
14
2014: 267
15
2015: 448
16
2016: 156
17
2017: 75
18
2018: 145
19
2019: 347
20
2020: 153
21
2021: 292
22
2022: 113
23
2023: 101
24
2024: 113
25
2025: 81
26
2026: 16

Related Entities for Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed

Event Locations

I 2,086 (43.9%)
1,822 (38.4%)
OTHER 598 (12.6%)
HOSPITAL 207 (4.4%)
NO INFORMATION 34 (0.7%)

Compare ETHICON INC. vs ETHICON, INC. →

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 (4,747 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (24 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.