Ring, Annuloplasty
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 §870.3800 (Cardiovascular panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Ring, Annuloplasty LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#221 of 1000 · 9,673 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 9,673 reports
- RANK #221 of 1000
- DEATH 780 death-typed
- INJ 8,517 injury-typed
- MALF 206 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2008: 1,288
- PHOTO Driver, Prosthesis
Nearest event-volume peer: Driver, Prosthesis (9 report gap)
Ring, Annuloplasty sits #221 of 1000 among tracked device types with 9,673 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 →
Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm
Ring, Annuloplasty carries 2.1% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 62.7pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 8.1% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+6.6 pp)
- INJ 88.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+57.8 pp)
- MALF 2.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-62.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES accounts for 57% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location HOSPITAL is 51% of location-tagged rows .
Ring, Annuloplasty in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Appliance
Appliance, Fixation, Nail/Blade/Plate Combination, Multiple Component
9,903 reports
- Driver
Driver, Prosthesis
9,682 reports
- Ring (this)
Ring, Annuloplasty
9,673 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer
9,644 reports
- Motor
Motor, Drill, Pneumatic
9,613 reports
- Keratome
Keratome, Ac-Powered
9,578 reports
What this shows Ring, Annuloplasty carries 9,673 MAUDE reports, ranked #221 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 (425) held close to the prior two-year average of 366.
Related Entities for Ring, Annuloplasty
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES vs MEDTRONIC HEART VALVES DIVISION →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Ring, Annuloplasty: 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 (9,673 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (780 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Ring, Annuloplasty 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 Ring, Annuloplasty; 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.