Joint Resurfacing Startup, Arthrosurface, Reaches $100M in WW Sales

Arthrosurface reaches $100M mark Franklin joint resurfacing company Arthrosurface Inc. announced today that for the first time, the 11-year-old company has surpassed $100 million in cumulative net revenue as of March 2012. The company claims to be the only developer of anatomic inlay implants for early joint disease, which, according to the company’s website, fills [...]

Study: Activity Lower Than Patients Hoped After Knee Replacement

Activity lower than patients hoped after knee replacement (Reuters) After recovering from knee replacement surgery, patients’ physical activity levels with their new joint were significantly lower than what they expected going in, in a new survey. “My take is that total knee replacement is primarily for pain relief, it’s not a lifestyle intervention,” said Ewa Roos, [...]

Why to Consider a Partial Knee Replacement? Interview With Dr. Craig Della Valle

Why to Consider Partial Knee Replacements: Q&A With Dr. Craig Della Valle of Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush (Laura Miller @ Beckers) Craig Della Valle, MD, a hip and knee surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, recently announced the results of a study where he and colleagues from across the country compared complications associated with [...]

Abbott Developing a Simple Test to Find Orthopedic Infections Early

Abbott developing quicker test for orthopedic infections (press release) Infection poses one of the most serious risks to patients getting a hip or knee replaced, and a major U.S. drugmaker is developing a test to quickly identify the pathogens responsible so doctors can treat problems sooner. Abbott Diagnostics Group, a unit of Abbott Laboratories, is working with [...]

Surgeons Fear the Coming Tsunami of Total Knee Revisions

Revision Estimates Haunt TKRs (Biloine Young @OTW) While it is great that over a million and a half Americans have regained their mobility through knee replacement (TKR) surgery, the future financial implications of those surgeries may be worrisome. Reason? Those new knees are in adults younger than 70 meaning the recipients are “likely to live long [...]

Surgeons Using Metal-Alloy Allergy Tests to Screen Patient Candidates for Total Hip or Knee

Allergy Tests Needed Before New Knee or Hip (MedPageToday) Preoperative skin patch testing for metal allergy influenced treatment planning in two-thirds of a small cohort of patients scheduled to receive metal-containing prosthetic devices, a retrospective chart review showed. All 21 patients with positive tests received allergen-free prostheses and had no complications associated with hypersensitivity. Post-implantation patch [...]

AAOS 2012: Here Come the South Koreans With “Corentec America”

Corentec, Co., Ltd., Launches Corentec America, Inc., At Annual Meeting Of The American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) (press release) AAOS 2012: South Korean Ortho Company Launches Corentec America (OrthoTec) A Seoul-based orthopaedic company is setting up shop in the United States. Corentec America will be based in Irvine, CA and will market the company’s hip and [...]

HSS Releases Archive of Failed Joint Replacements Providing Tips for Better Hip Replacement Outcomes

  Archive of Failed Joint Replacements Provides Tips to Building a Better Hip Replacement (press release) A study by Hospital for Special Surgery researchers has provided the first comprehensive look at just how metal-on-metal total hip replacements are failing in patients around the country. Made possible by what is thought to be the largest archive of failed joint [...]

Biomet Brings Patient-Specific Planning and Instrumentation to Partial Knee Replacements

     Biomet Brings Personalized Approach to Partial Knee Replacements (press release) Biomet Orthopedics today announced the launch of the Signature(TM) Personalized Patient Care System for use with the Oxford® Partial Knee System. The Signature(TM) Personalized Patient Care system enables surgeons to preoperatively plan a knee replacement surgery and precisely place implants by using Signature(TM) custom [...]

TeDan Surgical Innovations Launches Clever New Minimally Invasive Hip Retractor for Anterior Hip Replacement Procedures

       TeDan Surgical Innovations Website New Minimally Invasive Hip Retractor Revolutionizes Anterior Hip Replacement Procedures (press release) TeDan Surgical Innovations, industry leader in surgical access instrumentation, announces the launch of the Phantom Series MIS Anterior Hip Retractor System. TeDan Surgical’s revolutionary hip retractor utilizes a system of adjustable surgical arms with attachable retractors, enabling [...]

Wow! ConforMIS Raises $89M to Expand Sales, Manufacturing, Technology

     ConforMIS Adds $89M to Expand Sales, Manufacturing, Technology (Erin Kutz @ Xconomy) Burlington, MA-based ConforMIS, a medical device company with a newly FDA approved knee replacement system, announced today that it has secured $89 million in a Series E investment. The money comes from London-based AGC Equity Partners, New York-based Axel Johnson, government investment funds from Asia and the [...]

Knee Replacement Surgery Incidence Soars in Those Over Age 50

  Knee Replacement Surgery Incidence Soars In Those Over Age 50 (Medical News Today) Researchers in Finland found that annual cumulative incidences of partial and total knee arthroplasty, commonly known as knee replacement surgery, rose rapidly over a 27-year period among 30 to 59 year-olds in that country, with the greatest increase occurring in patients aged [...]

Old Implants Have Edge on New Implants

      Old Implants Have Edge On New (Biloine Young @ OTW) It is back to the drawing board for new hip and knee prosthesis. Reason? A five-year Australian study has found that the newer hip and knee replacement joints are performing no better—and sometimes worse—than the older, less expensive devices. The study concluded that [...]

The High Cost of Failing Artificial Hips – a Personal Story

        The High Cost of Failing Artificial Hips (NY Times) The most widespread medical implant failure in decades — involving thousands of all-metal artificial hips that need to be replaced prematurely — has entered the money phase. The Times’s Barry Meier, who has written a series of articles about hip replacements, answered selected questions [...]

Why Are Biomet Sales Up? Is the Ortho Industry Turning Around?

         Do Biomet’s Rising Sales Beckon a New Ortho Dawn? (Walter Eisner @ OTW) Biomet, Inc. reported a preliminary 4% rise in second quarter 2012 sales after the markets closed on December 19. Total revenues totaled $725.1 million. The next day, orthopedic stocks shot through the roof. Zimmer climbed almost 7%, while Stryker [...]

Cemented Polished Stems Preserve Femur in Young Patients Receiving THA

     Cemented polished stems preserve femur in young patients receiving THA (OrthoSuperSite) The use of cemented polished stems may help preserve the femur in young patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty, according to Australian researchers. Bogdan Solomon, MD, presented his team’s findings at the SICOT XXV Triennial World Congress 2011, in Prague. “Total hip replacement performed in young patients has [...]

Zimmer Launches New Modular Hip System in the U.S.

      Zimmer Brings New Hip Stem to U.S. (Walter Eisner @ OTW) Zimmer Holdings, Inc. says it has a new hip stem technology now available in the U.S. that enables surgeons to “better match patients’ individual anatomies” with modular neck options designed for independent, intraoperative adjustments. The CLS Brevius Hip Stem with Kinectiv Technology [...]

Q&a With Dr. Keith Berend on 35 Years of the Oxford Partial Knee Replacement

       35 Years and Counting: Q&A With Dr. Keith Berend on the Oxford Partial Knee Replacement (Laura Miller @ Beckers) The Oxford Partial Knee System from Biomet, a fully mobile-bearing partial knee replacement system, recently celebrated its 35th anniversary. The system is cleared by the FDA and has shown a 91 percent success rate [...]

Old Technology Metal-Poly Hips Perform as Well as New Metal-Metal and Ceramic-Ceramic Hips

    New Hip Implants Work No Better than Old Style (MedPage Today) Newer metal-on-metal or ceramic-on-ceramic hip implants work no better than traditional polyethylene-containing implants, researchers concluded from a systematic review. Although there are limited comparative effectiveness data, there was no evidence that the newer implant types improved functioning and quality of life or reduced [...]

Large Diameter Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacements Yield High Failure Rate, Corrosion

          Large diameter metal-on-metal hip replacements yield high failure rate, corrosion (OrthoSuperSite) One recent investigation from U.K. researchers has found an “unacceptable” high rate of failure among large diameter, hybrid metal-on-metal hip replacements studied, according to results presented at the British Orthopaedic Association and Irish Orthopaedic Association Combined Meeting 2011 in Dublin. According to study author Ben JRF [...]

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