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.
FDA MAUDE casebook
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
- Needle
Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen
39,044 reports
- Mesh (this)
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator
38,574 reports
- Filter
Filter, Intravascular, Cardiovascular
38,166 reports
- Introducer
Introducer, Catheter
38,107 reports
- Temporary Non…
Temporary Non-Roller Type Left Heart Support Blood Pump
38,070 reports
- Plate
Plate, Fixation, Bone
37,887 reports
What this shows Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator carries 38,574 MAUDE reports, ranked #84 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
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
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.
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.