Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc
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 Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#284 of 1000 · 6,148 reports · 2003–2026
- BOOK 6,148 reports
- RANK #284 of 1000
- DEATH 11 death-typed
- INJ 5,056 injury-typed
- MALF 1,054 malfunction
- SPAN 2003–2026
- PEAK 2015: 724
- PHOTO Suture
Nearest event-volume peer: Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide (57 report gap)
Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc sits #284 of 1000 among tracked device types with 6,148 MAUDE reports spanning 2003–2026. 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
Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc carries 82.2% INJURY-coded reports, 51.9pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 82.2% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+51.9 pp)
- MALF 17.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-47.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 24% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES BRANDYWINE accounts for 63% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 66% of location-tagged rows .
Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Device
Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial
6,312 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Cannula And Tubing, Vascular, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
6,232 reports
- Prosthesis (this)
Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc
6,148 reports
- Suture
Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide
6,091 reports
- Dislodger
Dislodger, Stone, Basket, Ureteral, Metal
6,079 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Female, Mini-Sling
5,966 reports
What this shows Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc carries 6,148 MAUDE reports, ranked #284 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 in 2025 (265) held close to the prior two-year average of 297.
Related Entities for Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc: 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 (6,148 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (11 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc 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 Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc; 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.