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Lumenis investigated the reported event by contacting the user facility directly.Attempts by emails and phone calls have been made to obtain, patient treatment settings, patient information, patient photo.The device is splendor ga-5000000: (b)(6).It's billable and being serviced by the distributor.They advised that they checked the output power and its in normal range, checked the earthing and it is normal as well.Then they checked all tips and lenses to be sure all clean.Device malfunction wasn't the suspected cause of the adverse event.According to the clinical expert, this complaint shows 4 different injured patients and therefore, this case will be cloned 3 times and each injured patient will be evaluated separately.This complaint is for patient 3 out of 4."pt #3: darker skin (likely fitz v) on unknown area with a relatively well demarcated patch of severe hyperpigmentation.Severity 5 or 8, pt will have lasting and possible permanent hyperpigmentation." based on the provided data, there is no conclusive evidence that the injury was caused by a malfunction of the device or its components.However, a partial clinical evaluation indicates that the injury maybe potentially serious, depending on further developing.Therefore, lumenis is reporting this event to the fda because of the severity of the injury as an importer.Should additional significant information become available, the complaint record will be updated accordingly and a follow-up medwatch report will be submitted.Nevertheless, due to the lack of information, it is not possible to establish a root cause for the adverse event (ae) or define user error.Therefore, no feedback letter is needed.Since lumenis is not the legal manufacturer of the device, this case is non-reportable by lumenis.Nevertheless, all the information of this adverse event was sent to the legal manufacturer "bios".
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