ORTHALIGN, LIMA CORPORATE SIGN DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT (Orthopedics This Week)
OrthAlign, Inc. has entered into a European distribution agreement with Lima Corporate for KneeAlign, its total knee arthroplasty (TKA) technology.
“As Lima embarked on building a best-in-class platform to provide surgeons with a complete range of solutions in TKA, we were convinced that OrthAlign’s precision alignment technology should be included in our offering,” said Luigi Ferrari, Lima Corporate’s chief executive officer, in the August 6, 2015 news release.
As indicated in the news release, “In a published clinical study by Denis Nam, M.D. (Washington University in St. Louis), significant differences favoring the use of KneeAlign vs. CAS were found with regard to the accuracy of femoral component alignment, with 94.9% of patients in the KneeAlign cohort having an alignment within 2° of neutral vs. 92.5% in the CAS cohort. There was also a significant difference in overall mechanical alignment of the limb, with 92.5% of patients within 3° of neutral mechanical axis in the KneeAlign cohort vs. 86.3% in the CAS cohort.”
“We are pleased to partner with Lima in further expanding our award-winning KneeAlig...
