Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Transvaginally 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.
FDA Class III (highest risk, premarket approval required), regulated under 21 CFR §884.5980 (Obstetrics/Gynecology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Mesh MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#198 of 1000 · 11,654 reports · 2007–2026
- BOOK 11,654 reports
- RANK #198 of 1000
- DEATH 256 death-typed
- INJ 10,906 injury-typed
- MALF 483 malfunction
- SPAN 2007–2026
- PEAK 2013: 7,150
- PHOTO Mesh, Surgical
Nearest event-volume peer: Mesh, Surgical (59 report gap)
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Transvaginally Placed sits #198 of 1000 among tracked device types with 11,654 MAUDE reports spanning 2007–2026. 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Mesh carries 93.6% INJURY-coded reports, 63.3pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 2.2% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.7 pp)
- INJ 93.6% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+63.3 pp)
- MALF 4.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-60.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Material Erosion is 44% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 42% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 37% of location-tagged rows .
Mesh in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Tampon
Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented
11,865 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Coronary, Atherectomy
11,823 reports
- System
System, Hemodynamic, Implantable
11,799 reports
- Mesh (this)
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Transvaginally Placed
11,654 reports
- Mesh, Surgical
Mesh, Surgical
11,595 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Hemodialysis, Implanted
11,428 reports
What this shows Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Transvaginally Placed carries 11,654 MAUDE reports, ranked #198 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 28 in 2025, down from an average of 47 in the two years before.
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mesh: 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 (11,654 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (256 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.