System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial
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 System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#158 of 1000 · 17,177 reports · 2009–2026
- BOOK 17,177 reports
- RANK #158 of 1000
- DEATH 1,816 death-typed
- INJ 13,486 injury-typed
- MALF 1,874 malfunction
- SPAN 2009–2026
- PEAK 2025: 2,859
- PHOTO Fastener
Nearest event-volume peer: Fastener, Fixation, Biodegradable, Soft Tissue (106 report gap)
System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial sits #158 of 1000 among tracked device types with 17,177 MAUDE reports spanning 2009–2026. 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
System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial carries 10.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 53.9pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 10.6% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+9.1 pp)
- INJ 78.5% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+48.2 pp)
- MALF 10.9% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-53.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 66% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 70% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 67% of location-tagged rows .
System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Unit
Unit, Electrosurgical, Endoscopic (With Or Without Accessories)
17,379 reports
- Console
Console, Heart-Lung Machine, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
17,288 reports
- System (this)
System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial
17,177 reports
- Fastener
Fastener, Fixation, Biodegradable, Soft Tissue
17,071 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Urological
17,035 reports
- Template
Template
16,915 reports
What this shows System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial carries 17,177 MAUDE reports, ranked #158 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 (2,859) held close to the prior two-year average of 2,564.
Related Entities for System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial: 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 (17,177 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1,816 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial 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 System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial; 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.