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Stent, Ureteral

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Stent, Ureteral LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#294 of 1000 · 5,594 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 5,594 reports
  • RANK #294 of 1000
  • DEATH 9 death-typed
  • INJ 1,591 injury-typed
  • MALF 3,951 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2023: 691
  • PHOTO Prosthesis

Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Hip, Constrained, Cemented Or Uncemented, Metal/Polymer (15 report gap)

Stent, Ureteral sits #294 of 1000 among tracked device types with 5,594 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 28.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-2.0 pp)
  • MALF 70.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+6.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 24% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 30% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 61% of location-tagged rows .

Stent, Ureteral in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Stent, Ureteral carries 5,594 MAUDE reports, ranked #294 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 3,951 (70.6%)
Injury 1,591 (28.4%)
Other 30 (0.5%)
13 (0.2%)
Death 9 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,930 (50.6%)
Other 1,342 (23.2%)
Required Intervention 1,136 (19.6%)
Hospitalization 142 (2.5%)
R 135 (2.3%)
H 34 (0.6%)
O 29 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 18 (0.3%)
Death 10 (0.2%)
L 7 (0.1%)
Disability 7 (0.1%)
S 4 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 1,063
Material Fragmentation 572
Calcified 374
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 360
Difficult to Remove 256
Material Split, Cut or Torn 222
Difficult to Advance 186
Detachment of Device or Device Component 177
Material Deformation 176
Migration 167
Material Separation 155
Deformation Due to Compressive Stress 148
Patient Device Interaction Problem 110
Biocompatibility 99
Fracture 91
Device Damaged Prior to Use 63
Material Twisted/Bent 57
Wrong Label 54
Unsealed Device Packaging 43
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 40

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
94
1994: 3
95
1995: 6
96
1996: 22
97
1997: 16
98
1998: 22
99
1999: 26
00
2000: 11
01
2001: 10
02
2002: 16
03
2003: 18
04
2004: 22
05
2005: 58
06
2006: 81
07
2007: 43
08
2008: 76
09
2009: 123
10
2010: 78
11
2011: 95
12
2012: 131
13
2013: 82
14
2014: 78
15
2015: 130
16
2016: 182
17
2017: 265
18
2018: 277
19
2019: 261
20
2020: 352
21
2021: 531
22
2022: 559
23
2023: 691
24
2024: 603
25
2025: 636
26
2026: 89

Related Entities for Stent, Ureteral

Top Manufacturers

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 1,443
C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 1,274
COOK INC 820
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - COSTA RICA (COYOL) 346
COOK IRELAND LTD 280
C.R. BARD INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 247
COLOPLAST A/S 177
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC 148
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - SPENCER 66

Event Locations

3,407 (60.9%)
I 1,337 (23.9%)
HOSPITAL 761 (13.6%)
NO INFORMATION 38 (0.7%)
OTHER 14 (0.3%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 8 (0.1%)
HOME 7 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 5 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 4 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 4 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 4 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY HEALTH CARE FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stent, Ureteral, 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 (5,594 here).

Prosthesis 5,609 Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide 5,613 Warmer, Infant Radiant 5,554 Pump, Breast, Powered 5,540

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (9 here), distinct from the volume row.

Blood Establishment Computer Software And A… 9 Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic 9 Choledochoscope And Accessories 9 Connector, Airway 9

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stent, Ureteral 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, Ureteral; 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.