POWERFUL TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT DATA PRESENTED AT NASS (Orthopedics This Week)
Three new, five-year follow-up studies are giving powerful weight to lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) as a standard of care for patients with degenerative disc disease (DDD). The studies and their data were presented from NASS’ (North American Spine Society) podium during the society’s October 2017 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
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The first study, sponsored by Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC, of Center Valley, Pennsylvania, presented five-year outcome data study for the activL Artificial Disc Replacement.
According to the company: “The five-year outcomes of the activL Artificial Disc Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Study, a 7-Year Multi-Center, Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) which compares outcomes of the activL Artificial Disc and previous generation disc replacements such as ProDisc-L (DePuy Synthes) were presented by one of the co-investigators of the study, Jim Yue, M.D. (Quinnipiac University, New Haven, Connecticut).”
“The data demonstrates that while both the activL device and the control were effective at addressing patient pain and disability at five years, the activL device was...
