Maxon 8886 6745-51Recalls & reported problems

Summary

The FDA's MAUDE database contains 7 adverse event reports that list this exact device (DI 00884523004208), received between Mar 6, 2023 and Apr 11, 2024 — classified as 7 malfunctions.

The most frequently reported specific device problem is “Patient-Device Incompatibility” (4 reports).

1 other recall cover devices cleared under the same FDA submission (K990951); they may or may not involve this specific model.

Reports come from manufacturers, hospitals and patients and are not verified by the FDA. A report does not prove the device caused the event, and counts can't be used to compare devices or estimate failure rates. What reports can and can't tell you · How this data works · Data updated Oct 16, 2026.

Most reported problems

Recent adverse event reports

The 7 most recent of 7 reports, in the reporter's own words as published by the FDA.

• MalfunctionApr 11, 2024Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  ACCORDING TO THE REPORTER, TEN DAYS AFTER A VETERINARY SPAY PROCEDURE, THE PATIENT DEVELOPED A HERNIA THAT RESULTED IN ANOTHER SURGERY. THE PATIENT WAS RE-ANESTHETIZED. THERE WERE MORE ADHESIONS, INFLAMMATION, AND GRANULATION TISSUE THAN EXPECTED. THERE WAS ALSO PERMANENT TISSUE DAMAGE AS TISSUE HAD TO BE REMOVED ON EITHER SIDE OF THE INITIAL INCISION BECAUSE IT HAD STARTED TO GRANULATE IN. IT WAS NOTED THAT THE INCISION WAS EXTENDED.

  Patient problems: Adhesion(s); Hernia; Inflammation; Tissue Breakdown; Unspecified Tissue Injury

  MAUDE report 19091545 ↗
• MalfunctionApr 11, 2024Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  ACCORDING TO THE REPORTER, AFTER A VETERINARY SPAY PROCEDURE, THE PATIENT CAME BACK DUE TO LEAKING URINE. THE SURGEON PALPATED AN ENLARGED UTERINE STUMP. A MULTICYSTIC ENLARGED STUMP WAS DETECTED BY ULTRASOUND WITH PULSATING VESSELS. THERE WAS ALSO BLEEDING INTO THE SURROUNDING GRANULATING TISSUE. MORE INFLAMMATION NEXT TO THE BLADDER WALL WAS IRRITATING TO THE BLADDER, CAUSING FREQUENT URINATION EVEN THOUGH NO INFECTION IN THE URINE WAS NOTED. THE ANIMAL ASSUMED A STRAINING POSTURE. THE DOCTOR ADVISED TO RESTRICT ACTIVITY, AND AVOID JUMPING, SO AS NOT TO IRRITATE THE STUMP FURTHER. ANTIBIOTICS HAVE ALSO STARTED TO REDUCE THE LIKELIHOOD OF INFECTION FROM FOREIGN BODIES.

  Patient problems: Cyst(s); Hemorrhage/Blood Loss/Bleeding; Inflammation; Urinary Incontinence

  MAUDE report 19089277 ↗
• MalfunctionApr 11, 2024Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  ACCORDING TO THE REPORTER, TEN DAYS AFTER A VETERINARY SPAY PROCEDURE, THE PATIENT CAME BACK DUE UNCOMFORTABLE AND URINATED FREQUENTLY. IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE UTERINE STUMP WAS PALPATED AS ENLARGED AND ULTRASOUND WAS UTILIZED. AN ENLARGE STUMP THAT HAD MULTICYSTIC AREAS AND PULSATING VESSELS WAS FOUND. THERE WAS BLEEDING INTO THE GRANULOMATOUS STUMP. THE UTERINE STUMP TISSUE WAS INFLAMED RESULTING IN IRRITATION TO THE ADJACENT URINARY BLADDER. THERE WAS NO URINARY TRACT INFECTION. THE DOCTOR ADVISED THE PATIENT TO RESTRICT ACTIVITY AND AN ANTIBIOTIC WAS ALSO STARTED.

  Patient problems: Cyst(s); Hemorrhage/Blood Loss/Bleeding; Inflammation; Urinary Frequency / Polyuria

  MAUDE report 19089214 ↗
• MalfunctionMar 8, 2023Patient-Device Incompatibility; Patient-Device Incompatibility

  ACCORDING TO THE REPORTER, 7 DAYS POSTOPERATIVE TO LINEAR AND UTERINE SPAY, THE PATIENT HAD SEVERE GRANULOMATOUS REACTION. FREQUENT URINATION/STRAINING WAS REPORTED FOR 1 WEEK. ANTIBIOTICS WERE GIVEN TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE, THOUGH URINALYSIS AND URINE CULTURE WHERE NORMAL/NEGATIVE.

  Patient problems: Dysuria; Foreign Body Reaction; Granuloma; Urinary Frequency / Polyuria

  MAUDE report 16503584 ↗
• MalfunctionMar 8, 2023Patient-Device Incompatibility; Patient-Device Incompatibility

  ACCORDING TO THE REPORTER, SEVEN DAYS POSTOPERATIVE TO UTERUS LIGATION FOR SPAY, THE PATIENT HAD SEVERE GRANULOMATOUS REACTION. THE PATIENT HAD FREQUENT URINATION WITH STRAINING. URINE CULTURE/URINALYSIS WAS PERFORMED THOUGH RESULTS WERE NORMAL.

  Patient problems: Foreign Body Reaction; Granuloma; Urinary Frequency / Polyuria

  MAUDE report 16503490 ↗
• MalfunctionMar 7, 2023Patient-Device Incompatibility; Patient-Device Incompatibility

  ACCORDING TO THE REPORTER, NINE DAYS POST-OPERATIVE OF A LINEAR AND UTERINE SPAY PROCEDURE WHERE THE SUTURE WAS USED TO CLOSE THE LINEA AND LIGATE THE UTERUS, THE CANINE PATIENT DEVELOPED AN INFECTION BETWEEN THE LINEA AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE PER CYTOLOGY/CULTURE PERFORMED. THE PATIENT WAS TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS. 14 DAYS LATER, THE PATIENT WAS RETURNED FOR BLOODY VAGINAL DISCHARGE FOR TWO DAYS. THE PATIENT WAS STRAINING TO URINATE WITH NO EVIDENCE OF URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI) AND HAD SEVERE GRANULOMATOUS REACTION. THE PATIENT WAS TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS.

  Patient problems: Abnormal Vaginal Discharge; Dysuria; Granuloma; Local Reaction; Unspecified Infection

  MAUDE report 16499173 ↗
• MalfunctionMar 6, 2023Patient-Device Incompatibility; Patient-Device Incompatibility

  ACCORDING TO THE REPORTER, ABOUT FIVE DAYS POSTOPERATIVE TO LIGATING THE UTERUS FOR SPAY, THE DOG HAD SEVERE GRANULOMATOUS REACTION. BLOODY VAGINAL DISCHARGE WAS NOTED. SEVEN TO FOURTEEN DAYS POSTOPERATIVELY, DISCHARGE PROGRESSED AND THERE WAS ALSO SIGNS OF STRAINING TO URINATE WITH NO EVIDENCE OF URINARY TRACT INFECTION. ULTRASOUND PERFORMED AND FOUND MODERATE STEATITIS AND SCANT CAUDAL PERITONEAL EFFUSION ADJACENT TO THE UTERINE STUMP. VAGINAL CULTURE WAS PERFORMED AND TREATED WITH FOUR WEEKS OF ANTIBIOTICS AND THE SYMPTOMS RESOLVED.

  Patient problems: Abnormal Vaginal Discharge; Dysuria; Foreign Body Reaction; Inflammation

  MAUDE report 16492091 ↗

Recalls under the same FDA submission

These recalls involve devices cleared under K990951. One submission often covers many models, so check the product and lot details in each record.

• Z-2542-2017 · May 3, 2017 · Terminated
  Sutures. MAXON: MAXON 4/0 5X18" GREEN CV-24 D-TACH; Item Number: 8886621933; MAXON 5/0 5X18 GR CV-23 D-TACH; Item Number: XX2109; MAXON* 4/0 5X30 GREEN V-20 D*TACH; Item Number: