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BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH

Manufacturer adverse-event records for BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH come from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database via openFDA, refreshed March 2026 - see our methodology. Not medical advice.

FDA MAUDE device safety record · 2008–2018 · heavy-book · typical Death-code · injury-heavy

Injury-mix signature

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH leans injury-heavy in event_type mix

Injury-coded event_type share is 73.9% (injury-heavy tercile) beside 0.17% Death-coded (typical). Volume band: heavy.

What the Injury-mix reading shows for BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH

The standout signal for BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH is Injury-mix: 73.9% Injury-coded (injury-heavy) beside 0.17% Death-coded, on a heavy-book footprint.

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH with device-family pages before treating company totals as a safety verdict. Event_type Death and Injury are one code per report; Patient Outcomes below use a separate FDA population.

Reports span 20 device types, led in this extract by Injury at 18,901 (73.9% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 12,548 reports across 11 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

25,574
Total Reports
43
Event-type Death
18,901
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Injury 18,901 (73.9%)
Malfunction 6,627 (25.9%)
Death 43 (0.2%)
3 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 16,104 (62.2%)
6,712 (25.9%)
Required Intervention 2,509 (9.7%)
R 272 (1.1%)
Hospitalization 203 (0.8%)
Death 46 (0.2%)
O 33 (0.1%)
H 6 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)

Devices (20)

Device Reports
Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric 14,625
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Transvaginally Placed 1,838
Ligator, Esophageal 1,333
Powered Laser Surgical Instrument 1,266
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator 999
Mesh, Surgical, Non-Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed 681
Hemostatic Metal Clip For The Gi Tract 555
Unit, Electrosurgical, Endoscopic (With Or Without Accessories) 532
Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial 450
Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories 298
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed 210
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Female, Mini-Sling 201
Pancreatic Stent, Covered, Metallic, Removable 118
Dislodger, Stone, Flexible 83
Choledochoscope And Accessories, Flexible/Rigid 80
Tubes, Gastrointestinal (And Accessories) 79
System, Hyperthermia, Rf/Microwave (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia),Thermotherapy 66
Insufflator, Hysteroscopic, Fluid, Closed-Loop Recirculation With Cutter-Coagulator, Endoscopic, Bipolar 65
Instrument, Manual, General Obstetric-Gynecologic 64
Bronchial Thermoplasty System 62

Yearly Trend

08
2008: 2
09
2009: 35
10
2010: 1,437
11
2011: 1,330
12
2012: 3,537
13
2013: 12,548
14
2014: 1,784
15
2015: 1,116
16
2016: 1,394
17
2017: 1,488
18
2018: 903

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