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
#160 of 1000 · 16,214 reports · 2009–2026
- BOOK 16,214 reports
- RANK #160 of 1000
- DEATH 1,702 death-typed
- INJ 12,690 injury-typed
- MALF 1,821 malfunction
- SPAN 2009–2026
- PEAK 2025: 2,859
- PHOTO Applier
Nearest event-volume peer: Applier, Surgical, Clip (66 report gap)
System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial sits #160 of 1000 among tracked device types with 16,214 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 →
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 10.5% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+9.0 pp)
- INJ 78.3% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+47.8 pp)
- MALF 11.2% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-53.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 67% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 70% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 65% 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
- Catheter
Catheter, Urological
16,473 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal/Polymer, Cemented Or Uncemented
16,396 reports
- System (this)
System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial
16,214 reports
- Applier
Applier, Surgical, Clip
16,148 reports
- Cardiac Ablat…
Cardiac Ablation Percutaneous Catheter
15,997 reports
- Fastener
Fastener, Fixation, Biodegradable, Soft Tissue
15,954 reports
What this shows System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial carries 16,214 MAUDE reports, ranked #160 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
Related Entities for System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial, 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 (16,214 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1,702 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.