MEDTRONIC’S PRESTIGE CERVICAL DISC BESTS FUSION (Orthopedics This Wek)
After seven years of clinical and radiographic outcomes under their belts, patients with Medtronic, Inc.’s Prestige Cervical Disc kept their improvements and had significantly lower rates of additional surgery when compared to anterior cervical discectomy fusion (ACDF).
Vincent Traynelis, M.D., director Neurosurgery Spine Service, and vice chairperson and professor, Department of Neurosurgery, at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, presented the results on December 5, 2013 at the Cervical Spine Research Society Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California.
“In the past several years, the long-term implications of cervical disc replacement have been the subject of much debate,” said Dr. Traynelis, “The seven-year results of this study show that patients receiving cervical disc replacement maintained their clinical improvements and had a significantly lower rate of additional surgical procedures compared to fusion.”
The Prestige disc is a stainless steel device and articulates via a ball and trough mechanism. It was the first artificial cervical disc FDA-approved for the treatment of single-leve...
