2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable

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 III (highest risk, premarket approval required), regulated under 21 CFR §876.3350 (Gastroenterology, Urology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#424 of 1000 · 2,835 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 2,835 reports
  • RANK #424 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 2,638 injury-typed
  • MALF 191 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 1,638
  • PHOTO Stent

Nearest event-volume peer: Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery, Drug-Eluting (11 report gap)

Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable sits #424 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,835 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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, Penis, Inflatable carries 93.1% INJURY-coded reports, 62.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 93.1% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+62.8 pp)
  • MALF 6.7% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-58.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Mechanical Problem is 19% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 97% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 97% of location-tagged rows .

Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable carries 2,835 MAUDE reports, ranked #424 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 2,638 (93.1%)
Malfunction 191 (6.7%)
Other 3 (0.1%)
2 (0.1%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

R 1,288 (24.3%)
Hospitalization 1,288 (24.3%)
Required Intervention 1,227 (23.1%)
H 1,206 (22.7%)
162 (3.1%)
Other 98 (1.8%)
O 21 (0.4%)
Disability 7 (0.1%)
S 3 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Death 1 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Mechanical Problem 962
Inflation Problem 725
Material Puncture/Hole 695
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 649
Fluid/Blood Leak 577
Migration 321
Nonstandard Device 233
Deflation Problem 129
Collapse 114
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 106
Defective Device 104
Air/Gas in Device 87
Malposition of Device 82
Degraded 69
Insufficient Device Problem Information 69
Unintended Deflation 48
Material Deformation 45
Failure to Deflate 42
Connection Problem 23
Explanted 23

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 3
95
1995: 2
99
1999: 1
04
2004: 2
05
2005: 2
06
2006: 21
09
2009: 3
10
2010: 13
11
2011: 4
12
2012: 7
13
2013: 3
14
2014: 2
15
2015: 3
16
2016: 5
17
2017: 3
18
2018: 4
19
2019: 5
20
2020: 6
21
2021: 23
22
2022: 15
23
2023: 5
24
2024: 265
25
2025: 1,638
26
2026: 800

Reports rose to 1,638 in 2025, up from an average of 135 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable

Event Locations

2,756 (97.2%)
HOSPITAL 35 (1.2%)
I 22 (0.8%)
NO INFORMATION 7 (0.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 5 (0.2%)
OTHER 4 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.1%)
HOME 2 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs AMERICAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable: 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 (2,835 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable 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, Penis, Inflatable; 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.