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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §878.3300 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Mesh MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#88 of 1000 · 38,646 reports · 2006–2026
- BOOK 38,646 reports
- RANK #88 of 1000
- DEATH 376 death-typed
- INJ 37,629 injury-typed
- MALF 607 malfunction
- SPAN 2006–2026
- PEAK 2013: 19,083
- PHOTO Plate, Fixation, Bone
Nearest event-volume peer: Plate, Fixation, Bone (172 report gap)
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator sits #88 of 1000 among tracked device types with 38,646 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Mesh carries 97.4% INJURY-coded reports, 67.1pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.5 pp)
- INJ 97.4% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+67.1 pp)
- MALF 1.6% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-63.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Material Erosion is 44% 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
39,692 reports
- Plate
Plate, Fixation, Bone
38,818 reports
- Mesh (this)
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator
38,646 reports
- Device
Device, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic
38,353 reports
- Filter
Filter, Intravascular, Cardiovascular
38,320 reports
- Insulin Pump…
Insulin Pump Secondary Display
38,005 reports
What this shows Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator carries 38,646 MAUDE reports, ranked #88 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 464 in 2025, down from an average of 949 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 (38,646 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.