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Medicrea announces European launch of patient-specific spinal rod
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The Medicrea Group announced the European launch of the UNiD product, which is the first patient-specific spinal osteosynthesis rod system.
“This unique new technology provided by Medicrea will make it possible to eliminate the need for surgeons to manually bend spinal rods in the operating room during the surgery,” Denys Sournac, chairman and CEO of Medicrea, stated in a press release. “I fully believe this precise new way of analyzing, planning and designing patient-specific implants will significantly reduce the need for a patient with spinal deformations to undergo a subsequent operation requiring a number of vertebrae to be realigned.”
The UNiD Rod system is a universal implant available in two alloys and two diameters, 5.5 mm and 6 mm, which correspond to global standards, according to the press release. The system fits into the range of implants that make up the PASS LP System, which is already used by spine surgeons in 35 countries.
“Spine surgeons will now be able to use a simple technology enabling them to accurately perform the correction that they have planned beforehand using the latest published scientific research,” Sournac stated in a press release.
The system includes software and technical support to help surgeon preoperatively analyze the case, design the system needed and order the patient-specific rods.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to clear the UNiD rods for use by spine surgeons in the United States in the first half of 2014, according to the press release.