HEARTWARE, INC.

Manufacturer adverse-event records for HEARTWARE, INC. 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 · 2013–2026 · heavy-book · elevated Death-code · injury-heavy

Death-code intensity

HEARTWARE, INC. carries an elevated Death-code share

Death-coded event_type rows are 6,072 of 62,693 (9.69% · elevated tercile among 443 manufacturers). Absolute volume is heavy-book.

What the Death-code reading shows for HEARTWARE, INC.

The standout signal for HEARTWARE, INC. is Death-code intensity: 9.69% of 62,693 reports (elevated tercile), while absolute volume is heavy-book.

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair HEARTWARE, INC. 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 3 device types, led in this extract by Injury at 34,427 (54.9% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 14,692 reports across 14 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

62,693
Total Reports
6,072
Event-type Death
34,427
Injury Reports
3
Device Types

Event Types

Injury 34,427 (54.9%)
Malfunction 22,192 (35.4%)
Death 6,072 (9.7%)
2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

22,025 (24.7%)
Hospitalization 17,360 (19.5%)
R 15,104 (17.0%)
L 7,696 (8.6%)
Life Threatening 7,239 (8.1%)
Death 5,915 (6.6%)
Other 5,106 (5.7%)
Required Intervention 4,966 (5.6%)
H 3,326 (3.7%)
O 161 (0.2%)
D 158 (0.2%)
S 32 (0.0%)
Disability 7 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

13
2013: 29
14
2014: 10
15
2015: 301
16
2016: 806
17
2017: 1,628
18
2018: 7,356
19
2019: 14,692
20
2020: 8,085
21
2021: 8,311
22
2022: 8,551
23
2023: 4,670
24
2024: 5,277
25
2025: 2,557
26
2026: 420