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If additional information should become available, a supplemental medwatch will be submitted accordingly.Udi: (b)(4).The complaint device was received and evaluated.Visual observation confirms the anchor is broken in half.Anchor breakages are typically associated with off axis insertion, levering during insertion, hard bone quality or using incorrect instrumentation for preparing bone hole.A batch record review has been conducted and the results indicate that this batch of product was processed with unrelated incident and therefore there is no internally assignable cause for the reported problem.Further, a review into the mitek complaints system revealed 1 similar complaint for this lot of devices that was released to distribution.At this point, no corrective action is required and no further action is warranted.However, depuy synthes 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 etq complaint management system as required under mitek's corrective and preventative actions (capa) to file usa fda mdr missed malfunctions.
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It was reported by the affiliate in (b)(6) that during an unspecified surgical procedure, it was observed that the 5.5 healix br anchor w/ocord anchor broke.It was removed completely, and another like device was used to complete the procedure.There was patient involvement reported.There were no injuries, medical intervention or prolonged hospitalization.All available information has been disclosed.If additional information should become available, a supplemental medwatch report will be submitted accordingly.
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