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
#282 of 1000 · 6,025 reports · 2003–2026
- BOOK 6,025 reports
- RANK #282 of 1000
- DEATH 11 death-typed
- INJ 4,976 injury-typed
- MALF 1,011 malfunction
- SPAN 2003–2026
- PEAK 2015: 724
- PHOTO Dislodger
Nearest event-volume peer: Dislodger, Stone, Basket, Ureteral, Metal (95 report gap)
Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc sits #282 of 1000 among tracked device types with 6,025 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 →
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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 82.6% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+52.2 pp)
- MALF 16.8% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-47.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES BRANDYWINE accounts for 51% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 65% of location-tagged rows .
Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- System
System, Blood Culturing
6,192 reports
- Nasopharyngos…
Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)
6,163 reports
- Prosthesis (this)
Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc
6,025 reports
- Dislodger
Dislodger, Stone, Basket, Ureteral, Metal
5,930 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Flutter
5,832 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Female, Mini-Sling
5,826 reports
What this shows Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc carries 6,025 MAUDE reports, ranked #282 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
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Yearly Trend
Related Entities for Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc
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Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc, 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 (6,025 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.