AFTER LONG WAIT COMES APPROVAL (Orthopedics This Week)
It took a long time but the U.S. Federal Drug Administration finally approved Medicrea Group’s K-JAWS Cervical Compression Staple for all cervical fixation indications carried out with interbody cages. The company will be able to market its device in the United States after what its chairman, Denys Sournad, described as “the longest and most complex approval process it had ever had to administer.” He said that almost 5,000 of the company’s units have been implanted in patients outside the United States since the products’ launch in 2006.
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