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The l&d staff reported on 2 recent occasions there is an issue with a 24 fr foley catheter; the blue cap and clear plastic have started leaking at about 9-10 ml and then separates, and this happened when inside the patients.Neither were harmed, and the customer reported after the incident occurred the foley was removed and the patient "requested no reinsertion".Medline quality did not receive a sample nor photographs of the reported product, and a post-market retrospective review of the past 6 months preceding the reported issue revealed 0 additional complaints of inflation port leakage with respect to dynd11536.The issue is unconfirmed, as no samples nor photographs were made available to review; a root cause cannot be identified at this time, and there are currently no known trends for this product lot.There were no reports of death, serious injury, medical intervention, or follow up care.It has been determined that the reported event could cause or contribute to serious injury if it were to occur again.In an abundance of caution, this is a reportable event.If additional information becomes available this report will be reopened and reevaluated.This medical device report (mdr) is being submitted as part of retrospective review activities, which include review of historical data in accordance with regulations at 21 cfr part 803.The information included in this mdr reflects the information reasonably known to the manufacturer at the time of this retrospective review and submission.
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