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If information is obtained that was not available for the initial medwatch, a follow-up medwatch will be filed as appropriate.Evaluation statement: the complaint device was received and evaluated.Visual observation of the device reveals the distal tip of the anchor was slightly bent and the anchor was off the inserter.From a follow up report it was noted that the surgeon prepared the bone holes correctly and there does not seem to be a definitive root cause for this failure.Although the failure can be confirmed, we cannot discern a root cause for this issue.A batch review was conducted and the results indicate that this batch was processed without incident and therefore there is no internally assignable cause for the reported problem.Further, a review into the mitek complaints system revealed no other complaints from this lot of devices released to distribution.At this point in time, no further action is warranted.However, depuy mitek will continue to track any related complaints within this device family as a means of monitoring the extent with which this complaint is observed in the field.This report is being filed from the remetrex complaint management system as required under mitek's corrective and preventative actions (capa) to file usa fda mdr missed malfunctions.
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