2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator

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 MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#84 of 1000 · 38,574 reports · 2006–2026

  • BOOK 38,574 reports
  • RANK #84 of 1000
  • DEATH 376 death-typed
  • INJ 37,565 injury-typed
  • MALF 597 malfunction
  • SPAN 2006–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 19,083
  • PHOTO Filter

Nearest event-volume peer: Filter, Intravascular, Cardiovascular (408 report gap)

Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator sits #84 of 1000 among tracked device types with 38,574 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 1.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.5 pp)
  • INJ 97.4% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+66.9 pp)
  • MALF 1.5% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-63.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 56% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 65% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 49% 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 Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator carries 38,574 MAUDE reports, ranked #84 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 37,565 (97.4%)
Malfunction 597 (1.5%)
Death 376 (1.0%)
25 (0.1%)
Other 10 (0.0%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 29,701 (74.6%)
Other 6,140 (15.4%)
1,418 (3.6%)
R 808 (2.0%)
Hospitalization 564 (1.4%)
Death 377 (0.9%)
Disability 281 (0.7%)
S 232 (0.6%)
O 221 (0.6%)
L 32 (0.1%)
H 30 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 8 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 3 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 7,181
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 2,149
Migration 1,762
Migration or Expulsion of Device 510
Insufficient Information 418
Material Erosion 147
Positioning Problem 84
Material Integrity Problem 62
Patient-Device Incompatibility 61
Break 58
Detachment of Device or Device Component 54
Extrusion 43
Material Twisted/Bent 42
Material Protrusion/Extrusion 40
Material Split, Cut or Torn 39
Manufacturing, Packaging or Shipping Problem 38
Difficult to Advance 30
Device Appears to Trigger Rejection 28
Defective Device 24
Patient Device Interaction Problem 24

Yearly Trend

06
2006: 1
10
2010: 1
11
2011: 25
12
2012: 874
13
2013: 19,083
14
2014: 2,063
15
2015: 3,904
16
2016: 1,902
17
2017: 676
18
2018: 737
19
2019: 2,457
20
2020: 1,003
21
2021: 2,606
22
2022: 809
23
2023: 1,076
24
2024: 822
25
2025: 462
26
2026: 73

Related Entities for Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator

Event Locations

I 18,918 (49.0%)
13,240 (34.3%)
OTHER 3,948 (10.2%)
HOSPITAL 1,812 (4.7%)
NO INFORMATION 647 (1.7%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.0%)
HOME 3 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare ETHICON INC. vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION →

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 (38,574 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (376 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.