2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery, Drug-Eluting

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 Stent LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#423 of 1000 · 2,846 reports · 2004–2026

  • BOOK 2,846 reports
  • RANK #423 of 1000
  • DEATH 16 death-typed
  • INJ 1,993 injury-typed
  • MALF 837 malfunction
  • SPAN 2004–2026
  • PEAK 2020: 319
  • PHOTO Nebulizer

Nearest event-volume peer: Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface) (1 report gap)

Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery, Drug-Eluting sits #423 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,846 MAUDE reports spanning 2004–2026. 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

Stent carries 70.0% INJURY-coded reports, 39.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.9 pp)
  • INJ 70.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+39.7 pp)
  • MALF 29.4% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-35.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 31% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer COOK IRELAND LTD accounts for 50% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location HOSPITAL is 50% of location-tagged rows .

Stent in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery, Drug-Eluting carries 2,846 MAUDE reports, ranked #423 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,993 (70.0%)
Malfunction 837 (29.4%)
Death 16 (0.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 1,515 (48.3%)
956 (30.5%)
R 175 (5.6%)
Hospitalization 174 (5.6%)
Other 146 (4.7%)
H 65 (2.1%)
O 31 (1.0%)
S 26 (0.8%)
Disability 16 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 15 (0.5%)
Death 14 (0.4%)
D 1 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,027
Occlusion Within Device 482
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 464
Fracture 313
Material Deformation 239
Entrapment of Device 100
Activation Failure 85
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 78
Premature Activation 70
Difficult to Remove 69
Off-Label Use 54
Obstruction of Flow 52
Insufficient Device Problem Information 47
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 46
Stretched 44
Deformation Due to Compressive Stress 41
Break 37
Difficult or Delayed Positioning 36
Positioning Problem 34
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 31

Yearly Trend

04
2004: 1
06
2006: 1
13
2013: 20
14
2014: 169
15
2015: 168
16
2016: 232
17
2017: 279
18
2018: 194
19
2019: 295
20
2020: 319
21
2021: 225
22
2022: 254
23
2023: 248
24
2024: 175
25
2025: 183
26
2026: 83

Reports in 2025 (183) held close to the prior two-year average of 212.

Related Entities for Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery, Drug-Eluting

Event Locations

HOSPITAL 1,412 (49.6%)
738 (25.9%)
I 685 (24.1%)
HOME 6 (0.2%)
NO INFORMATION 3 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)

Compare COOK IRELAND LTD vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stent: 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 (2,846 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (16 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stent 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 Stent; 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.