Treace Medical Announces Presentation of Positive Clinical Data Supporting Lapiplasty® 3D Bunion Correction™ for the Surgical Management of Bunion Deformities (press release)
Clinical data presented at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS)
Study demonstrates 96.7% maintenance of 3-plane correction at 13.5 month mean follow-up with rapid return to weight-bearing
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc., a medical device company focused on advancing the standard of care for hallux valgus (bunion) surgery, announces presentation of positive 13.5-month follow-up results from its retrospective, multicenter study with the Lapiplasty® 3D Bunion Correction™ procedure in the surgical management of symptomatic hallux valgus. The goal of the study, which involved multiple centers and 72 patients, was to evaluate maintenance of 3-plane correction and union rates with rapid return to weight-bearing following surgery. Highlights of the study:
61 feet met the 1-year endpoint, with an average follow-up of 13.5 months
Mean time for study patients to start weight-bearing on the operative foot was 10.5 days
96.7% of study patients maintained their 3-plane ...
